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Mandy Rose and Otis

One of the most popular storylines in WWE last year, heading into WrestleMania 36, was the romance angle with Otis and Mandy Rose which saw Otis defeating Dolph Ziggler at the Show of Shows.

However, the storyline ended up going nowhere and was pushed to the backburner in summer 2020 as Otis feuded with The Miz and Mandy Rose feuded with Sonya Deville.

Otis’ former tag-team partner Levi Cooper f.k.a. Tucker, who was released by WWE earlier this year, commented on the storyline abruptly fizzling out. Tucker, who ended up turning on Otis during his feud with The Miz, recently spoke on The Angle podcast:

The lack of pay-off, I have no idea. I’ll probably go to my grave not understanding how you can have a six-month storyline that was definitely a top-five storyline and, maybe in terms of fan interaction, the top one in the company, and then just basically have those two go their separate ways and pretend like it never happened in the first place. Very insulting to the audience, in my opinion. It makes them [fans] much less likely to invest in a long-term story the next time.

Tucker’s sentiments on the subject definitely reflect that of a large section of fans at the time who were baffled that the storyline ended so suddenly.