mobile app bar

“I’m sorry, I’m boring” – Former WWE Star recalls meeting with Vince McMahon that probably led to release

Archie Blade
Published

Former WWE Star recalls meeting with Vince McMahon that probably led to release

Former WWE Star recalls meeting with Vince McMahon that probably led to her release from the promotion this year after Wrestlemania.

Several talents were let go by the WWE this year as part of the budget cuts following Wrestlemania 37. Some of the names you kind of expected, some on the other hand were quite shocking. Peyton Royce’s name on the list is one that comes to mind.

Also read: Real reason why Kevin Owens is taking time off from WWE

Royce was reportedly in line for a push following the IIconics splitting up. That however, never came to be and the former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion blames a particular meeting with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon for it.

Former WWE Star recalls meeting with Vince McMahon that probably led to release

On her Off Her Chops podcast with Billie Kay, Royce spoke of the time she and Vince had a discussion regarding her character. He did not like the idea she pitched and she had not prepared any other. In her own words, the meeting was disastrous and probably contributed towards her eventual release from the company.

“This is when you were drafted to Smackdown and I decided to put on my big girl panties and talk to Vince. I had in my head what I wanted to say but he brushed it off very quickly and I went ‘crap’. I had an idea that I wanted to present, and he wanted to discuss other ideas. But I didn’t have other ideas.

“This is what I wanted to talk about and put my time and effort into. Vince says “What do you do for fun?” Me being me, the introvert and the homebody that I am, I had to let him know that I like to sit on the couch with my dogs and watch TV.

“He just stared at me and in my head I’m just like, ‘make something up’ and I couldn’t make anything up. Nothing was coming out. I’m not a liar. I feel like he could have seen right through that, I basically said to him ‘I’m sorry, I’m boring’ and I just like to be home on my off days’. I didn’t contribute much during that unfortunately and that’s probably why I lost the job.”

Peyton Royce and Billie Kay were released from WWE earlier this year in April. They announced their intention to continue fighting as a team last month. Earlier this week, they filed to trademark “The IInspiration”, a potential new name for their team.

Click here for more Wrestling News

About the author

Archie Blade

Archie Blade

x-iconlinkedin-icon

Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

Read more from Archie Blade

Share this article