CJ Perry looks back on working with The Rock in WWE.
Perry, who worked as the Ravishing Russian Lana for years under the WWE banner, spoke about her time with her former company during an interview with Chris Van Vilet. She recalls a segment that she, Rocky, and her husband Miro (Rusev) had back in 2014.
Oh, yeah, that was really funny. So we get a promo. Like, in the middle of the day, we were working Big Show at the time. And this is when Miro was undefeated and he was a hero of the Russian Federation. So they give us this promo, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. And they’re like, look at 7:15 meet us back by this door and this bus and you’re gonna know what happens here. Like, okay, so I’m learning that we go back there. And then they open the door and it’s Dwayne in there. And I’m like, wait, what? And they’re like, scratch that promo. So we had 45 minutes, it was maybe an hour, we had to learn a whole new thing, but it was great. It was a lot of fun.
At a different point in the interview Perry would be asked if she ever had a desire to wrestle again, or if she would just be pursuing her managing career.
Hmm, such an interesting question. So I want to be the best of all time, I want to be the best wrestling manager of all time. I want to be when people think of like, people often want to be managed by Paul Heyman, because he is the best manager of all time right now. Right? I wanted that spot. And so I want people to be like, I want CJ Perry to manage me, I would rather do that than try to become champion or fight whatever for championships, and be the best hustler for those people to be champions, and create a legacy and a name that way. I just feel that’s my calling. So if at some point I gotta like fight some bitches in the ring, of course, I’ll fight some bitches in the ring.
Elsewhere in the interview, Perry reflected on her AEW debut back in September and what fans can expect from this run. You can read about that here.