Mandy Rose Recalls Pitching Otis Storyline To Vince McMahon, How It Earned His Respect

Mandy Rose was recently interviewed by Fightful, and the current WWE NXT Women’s Champion discussed pitching her storyline with Otis to Vince McMahon, how pitching the storyline earned her Vince’s respect, and much more. Here are some highlights:

Mandy Rose on pitching her storyline with Otis to Vince McMahon: “When you have a creative idea or something, go right to Vince. I would be by his door, just like everyone else and hopefully get in there. Obviously, he’s a very busy man and very hard to get to. Sometimes you wait all day, literally, and he’d just walk out and you don’t want to bother him. There were a few interactions I had with Vince, for sure. There was one right at the beginning when I first got to Raw. The one with the Otis storyline, I actually went in there and pitched that whole thing.”

On how pitching the storyline earned her Vince’s respect: “I think that’s when, coming from the reaction I got from Vince, is when I think he was like, ‘that’s an amazing idea’ and I took the initiative to go in there and come up with this idea and have a plan for how it ends and the whole storyline and how it leads up to it. He really gained a lot more respect for me in that sense because he loved the idea but he also thought it was cool that I took the initiative. That was a cool moment I had with him.”