Fred Rosser Talks About Using Total Divas To Make More Money While In WWE

In an interview with Wrestling Inc, Fred Rosser spoke about his time in WWE as Darren Young and how he was able to use Total Divas to make more money without being a cast member. Here are highlights:

On how he envisioned his WWE run: “I was with WWE from 2009 to 2017, nothing lasts forever. Once I moved on, again, you got to grind it out. You got to hustle, and I was wrestling here, doing more quality over quantity. Again, in my head, no one knows I want to have that mystique of The Undertaker. You don’t see him as much, but when you do see him, it’s special, and that’s how I envisioned myself, focus on more quality over quantity. So doing quality matches and then when I got this offer to do the musical in 2019, like I said, Jericho was an inspiration, and I was out and about and comfortable with myself. I said, ‘Well, let me do this’ because this is something amazing I can add to my resume. I believe in the project. I think it’s funny. I’m ready to roll with the punches, and I’m not afraid to be in front of the camera.”

On using Total Divas to make more money: “With WWE and their reality show, Total Divas, anytime the cameras are around, I get right on there because for me, not being a part of the show, you’re going to be get a check in the mail because you’re on their show. They pay you. Any time I see Nattie Neidhart, I go, ‘Hey girl, how you doing? How’s everything going?’ And Nattie knows how to turn it on. ‘Oh my God, I’m having so much problems with this Diva, that Diva,’ and I’m just listening, listening. So I know when the cameras are on, a check is in the mail for me. After you’re done and the cameras turn away from you, they’re writing down who was involved in each scene.”

On advice Titus O’Neil gave him: “That’s who I learned it from. He learned the wrestling from me. I learned from the best. I don’t know if I mentioned it with you before but the most intimidating thing about Vince McMahon is his office door. Once you get through his office door, the sky’s the limit. That’s something I learned from Titus. If we weren’t on RAW, at the time, they had the app. The app was getting popular. No one was doing the app. So when we weren’t on RAW, Titus would bust into Vince McMahon’s office. I’ll be like, ‘Hold up big man. Wait a second. Let’s have a game plan or something,’ and then he bust in, ‘Hey boss, what you got for us on RAW?’ Sometimes we would have something on RAW. Sometimes we wouldn’t. If we didn’t have anything on RAW, we would go right over to the app, and at the time, I would be like, ‘Come on. I want to wrestle. I want to wrestle,’ but we definitely made the app when it first came on the map. Titus is a hustler. That’s something I learned from him, and he learned the wrestling from me because we set foot in FCW late 2009. No one wanted to get in the ring with him. He was fresh out of football, and no one wanted to get in the ring with him. I said, ‘Titus, the same people that are crapping on you are going to be kissing your butt years from now,’ and those people are. I helped him wrestle. He helped me how to be a better businessman.”