Jim Cornette recently discussed the Sonya Deville attempted kidnapping incident on episode 365 of his Jim Cornette Experience podcast, which was taped before SummerSlam aired. After he found out that Mandy Rose, who was feuding with Deville, was her house guest at the time of the home invasion, he initially stated that the pair should be fired for breaking kayfabe. He believes a babyface and a heel shouldn’t be together, especially with a big match booked.
Wait until the sympathies died down and fucking fire them in six months.
Shitting on their fucking match in their home. Didn’t they escape the house? They escaped their house and called the police. Then she had time to drop old Mandy Rose off somewhere, and nobody would have known.
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Cornette’s co-host argued against this, and Cornette did ease up and instead said that a fine would suffice under the circumstances.
It’s an incredibly old school viewpoint, but Jim Cornette is about as old school as you can get. Most people wouldn’t think about maintaining kayfabe when running for their lives, but Jim Cornette isn’t most people.
Obviously, WWE won’t take any action against Deville or Rose as they don’t care about kayfabe to any meaningful degree anymore. Apart from the Kliq’s curtain call, which happened during a show, the last time WWE was upset about a heel and babyface being together was back in the 80’s. In 1987 “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan and Iron Sheik caused some controversy after being pulled over by the cops and lost their jobs, although as drugs were involved, it isn’t that surprising that WWE took action.
