Following WrestleMania in April, WWE released multiple wrestlers from their contracts. While many of them weren’t a big surprise, Peyton Royce’s inclusion was unexpected. However, speaking on her Off Her Chops podcast which she has launched with Billie Kay, she revealed a conversation with WWE’s head honcho Vince McMahon might have played a part in why she was chosen.
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.
Vince McMahon is known for liking larger-than-life superstars, and over the years, has used wrestler’s passions and former careers as part of their gimmicks. Seemingly Royce didn’t give McMahon much to work with, and when making budgetary cuts were decided upon, he considered her expendable.
Neither Royce nor Kay has wasted any planning their non-WWE futures by filing trademark applications on their new names. Royce, whose real name is Cassandra McIntosh, applied for “Cassie Lee,” and Kay, whose name is Jessica McKay, filed for “Jessie Kay.” Additionally, the duo’s company JLTM Inc has applied to trademark “The IInspiration” as they can no longer be collectively known as The IIconics.
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