Rosa Mendes calls Naomi a dream to work with.
Rosa Mendes worked with Naomi repeatedly while working with WWE during the Divas era. The pair would also star in Total Divas together.
In an interview with Ring The Belle, Mendes discussed the former SmackDown Women’s Champion and stated that she was a “dream” to work with.
“She is a dream to work with, that girl. What makes her good is that she’s a giver. I feel like in some matches, people want to beat you up, and I always agree with everything because I’m like, super nice and like, who cares? You know, whatever. I love performing, but she knew that she would get more over if she gave me something. So if I hit her back a little bit if I made the match look close, it would put her over. I think a lot of wrestlers, they think, ‘Okay, so I’m just gonna beat this person up and I’m gonna look really tough well’, but you beat up somebody that’s not even, strong. But if you beat up somebody that looks strong — for all you workers out there, that makes you look tougher. So, if you’re a babyface, let the heel do like really crappy things, too. So you can look awesome and be the hero at the end,”
Rosa Mendes on Ring The Belle
Mendes mentioned elsewhere in the interview that she would only return to WWE for a Royal Rumble appearance if she could donate her paycheck to charity.
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