5 Things You Didn't Know About Dana Brooke

#3 Dana Brooke Nearly Quit WWE

RAW Superstar Dana Brooke

Dana Brooke would pitch ideas routinely and frequently, but no one listened. Instead, the RAW Superstar became a forgotten component in WWE - an afterthought. Her position with the company grew tiring for Brooke and things came to a head when a match between her and Natalya was unceremoniously removed from RAW.

Brooke told Lilian Garcia,

"We were seg[ment] 10. We got in the ring. We rehearsed and we had our match together, everything. Then I see the run sheet and I was like, 'What are you talking about? We're not on?' That ripped my heart out of my chest."

Brooke began to have doubts and wondered if she was being removed for personal reasons. She even questioned whether the company had lost all faith in her. The incident nearly caused Dana Brooke to walk out on the company.

"When I found out that me and Nattie weren't having anything, I was like, 'How am I the one where it's always like this?' It always happens where if I'm in a segment, it gets pulled or cut."

Ultimately, Brooke decided to stay with the company.

"In life, you're always gonna have obstacles put in your path and I am a prime example ever since I was a little girl to where I am now. You control your own destiny...I went to the locker room and put my head down. I thought through everything I had been through. I've been through injuries, I've been through deaths in my life, I've been through personal experiences growing up in my childhood and said, 'You know something? If I quit now, what kind of an example am I gonna be for everyone that's followed me, who has supported me, who has been my backbone through the hardest times?' I said, 'I can not give up now. I can't. I can only pick myself up, keep my head up, put a smile on my face because there are millions of people in this world that would die to walk a mile in your shoes.'"