Braun Strowman is a former Universal Champion and was one of the mainstays of WWE Monday Night RAW. Despite being a massive monster as part of the storylines in the company, he is quite the opposite person in real life. Shane McMahon had been engaged in a feud with Braun Strowman for the past few months and it culminated in a steel cage match at WrestleMania 37, and Shane demanded the feud and to put Braun over with his stroke backstage. In the end, Braun Strowman was the one who won the match despite Shane McMahon’s best efforts. Strowman would be released by the company last month.
Former WWE Superstar Lana was also released last month in a shocking turn of events. She recently spoke on Talk Is Jericho, Lana revealed that Shane McMahon and Vince thought it would be hilarious if Lana didn’t tag in and wrestle at Survivor Series 2020, and were largely response for her use in the match.
After that, she talked about how men are made to feel more important than women in WWE.
When Miro got let go, for me personally, it was harder. When Miro got let go… I was a lot more depressed, I was a lot more sad. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I had my days of crying and wallowing but I think partly as a performer and artist, I allow myself to wallow. I’m like ‘I’m finally not feeling happy. Let me wallow so I can have more emotion when I need to do this part. You know, dig deep, use this for method. Am I gonna come up with some type of funny concept?’ So I just like allow myself to feel, I think it actually does help us sometimes tap into being better performers or actors. But with Miro that f***ed me up. First of all, never in a million years would I have thought he would have been fired before I was. Like, never.
That place makes you feel that way. That place makes you feel that men are more important than women. That place makes you feel, especially if you are a manager or a valet, [that] you’re secondary. And yeah maybe you’re secondary, but I do feel like I was a big part of his success. I think I’m a big part of his success behind closed doors at AEW and I can talk about that now, but a big turn for him was when we started really talking about like ‘Let’s, let’s make your message a little bit more clear over there.’ And so, it is reassuring to me that I do grasp storytelling and I do grasp storytelling in wrestling as well. So when he got fired, I.. God, I was beyond devastated.
