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This WWE Superstar, fitness champ, donut fan creates app to make health and fitness easy

WWE Superstar Mandy Rose is not just another pretty face. She is athletic, smart, strong, a dancer, a TV star, an entrepreneur and a fitness champion who just happens to like donuts.

Rose regularly teams with Sonya Deville, another multitalented WWE Superstar, for a fun and successful YouTube series DaMandyz Donutz.

Check it out: https://damandyz.com/pages/youtube-series and website https://damandyz.com/.

This dynamic duo shares their latest reviews on donuts from places they visit across the nation, while on tour for WWE. They are in search of America’s best glazed donut but try many others, too. Friend Liv Morgan, also from the East Coast and a WWE superstar, sometimes appears on DaMandyz Donutz. Big Show, New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E, Xavier Woods) and more. Who doesn’t like donuts?

Rose and Deville recognize that women are put under extreme pressure to look a certain way, while eating a restrictive diet. They combat these stereotypes by demonstrating that you can be in excellent shape while enjoying the pleasures of life, i.e. delicious donuts.

So because we care...

(Rose’s recommendation: Meche’s Donut King — Lafayette, Louisiana https://www.rickeymechesdonuts.com/?utm_source=tripadvisor&utm_medium=referral )

(Writer’s South Florida recommendations: Mojo Donuts — Pembroke Pines and Miami http://www.mojodonuts.com/ ;

The Salty Donut — Wynwood https://www.saltydonut.com/ ).

(FYI: We agree WWE Referee John Cone is the Donut King of Kansas City https://donutkingkc.com/ )

With all that donut talk and donut eating, how do Rose and Deville remain in shape?

Fit with Mandy

One way is an iOS app created by Rose entitled “Fit with Mandy,” aimed to make health and fitness easy and accessible for men and women worldwide.

Rose, 28, a former WBFF Bikini Fitness Pro World Champion, has mastered a healthy and active lifestyle while simultaneously being on the road more than 300 days a year for WWE.

Rose is the ultimate example of fighting against all excuses to lead to a better version of yourself. This fitness program works all body parts as well as cardio regimens of all levels.

Whether you work out at home (which is the norm these days) or in a gym and whether you are advanced or just beginning, this program will guide you step by step and become the best version of yourself.

Courtesy Anderson Group PR

Rose is currently residing in South Florida.

In my two-part audio interview with WWE Superstar Mandy Rose, she once again displays her versatility by conducting the interview while exercising on her stationary bike.

In part one of my two-part audio interview with Mandy Rose, she discusses DaMandyz Donutz, the message it sends to women, other WWE Superstars who enjoy donuts, her WWE Superstar name, her fitness routine, eating healthy on the road and more.

In part two, Rose talks about the iOS app Fit with Mandy, Iona College, speech language pathology, dancing, those in WWE who can dance, sports growing up, WrestleMania 36, the Donut King and more.

Rose and Deville are planning to open a donut and pizza place, run by their moms in South Florida or Central Florida or both. Hey, franchising. Well, one step at a time.

ABOUT MANDY ROSE

Rose, 28, is from Westchester County, New York. Now the most famous person from Yorktown High School, she graduated Iona College in New Rochelle, New York with a bachelor’s degree in speech language pathology. Prior to WWE, she worked in the field and tested herself in fitness competitions. She loves a challenge and excelled, winning the 2014 WBFF Bikini Fitness Pro World Championship.

A former dancer in high school and a three-sport athlete (basketball, lacrosse, softball), this blonde beauty participated in WWE Tough Enough Season Six in 2015 where she met Deville, also a contestant. They didn’t win, but WWE signed both.

A WWE Performance Center grad, Rose made her NXT debut in Venice, Florida in January 2016, when she teamed with Deville and Alexa Bliss against Carmella, Liv Morgan and Nikki Cross. She landed a spot on the series WWE Total Divas on E! Season 5 in 2016.

Rose made her WWE main roster debut on Raw in 2017, teaming with Deville and Paige in the faction Absolution. In April 2018, Paige retired from the ring because of neck injuries and became the SmackDown general manager.

In her first WrestleMania appearance, at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans, Rose participated in the inaugural WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal.

Rose and Deville were drafted to SmackDown during the 2018 Superstar Shake-up, where they became Fire & Desire.

Photo Courtesy Anderson Group PR

In a match that amounted to a battle for Rose’s affection, Otis of Heavy Machinery defeated Dolph Ziggler on Night 2 of WrestleMania 36 on April 6 from the WWE Performance Center (no crowd because of COVID-19 concerns) in Orlando.

Rose, who was dating Ziggler (story line), involved herself in the match when she walked down to ringside and slapped longtime partner Deville, before entering the ring and delivering a low blow to Ziggler, leading to an Otis victory.

Prior, Rose learned Deville sabotaged her date with Otis, while working on that deception with Ziggler behind Rose’s back.

The match led to the feelgood moment of the night where Otis finally got his kiss from Rose, which led fans to wonder what will happen to Fire & Desire. Dun Dun Duuuun!

On WWE Friday Night SmackDown on FOX, Deville extinguished Fire & Desire by berating and attacking The Golden Goddess Rose.

MANDY ROSE WWE BIO

When you’re 5-foot-4 and can lift 225 pounds, you’re bound to turn some heads. That goes double when you look like Mandy Rose.

Photo By Per Bernal Courtesy Anderson Group PR

An athletic powerhouse who wouldn’t look out of place on a Hollywood red carpet, Rose has the physical prowess and brash attitude required to be a true Superstar.

After debuting on Raw as part of Absolution along with Paige and Sonya Deville, The Golden Goddess found herself competing in such landmark moments as the first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble, first-ever Women’s Elimination Chamber Match and the groundbreaking WWE Mixed Match Challenge before moving to SmackDown Live as a part of the 2018 Superstar Shake-up alongside Deville.

Rose and Deville quickly established themselves as one of the blue brand’s top tandems and came within an eyelash of being crowned the first-ever WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions inside the deadly Elimination Chamber, as they competed for 33 minutes and were the last team eliminated from the bout.

If the question is whether Rose will continue to turn heads, the answer is simple: A rose by any other name will not hit as hard.

Photo Courtesy Anderson Group PR

HER MAIN PROJECTS

  • “WWE Friday Night SmackDown” on FOX airs Fridays at 8/7c

For more info on “WWE Friday Night SmackDown”:

https://www.foxsports.com/watch/friday-night-smackdown/video

  • WWE Superstars Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville bring you DaMandyz Donutz, a weekly YouTube series where they critique / review donuts from places they visit across the nation, while on tour for WWE.

For more info, click: https://damandyz.com and https://damandyz.com/pages/youtube-series.

  • E!’s “Total Divas” Season 5

For more info on “Total Divas” and to re-watch episodes, visit: https://www.eonline.com/shows/total_divas

  • Mandy Rose’s “Fit with Mandy” iOS app.

HER SOCIAL MEDIA

Web: https://damandyz.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WWE_MandyRose

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WWEMandyRose/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandysacs/?hl=en

My Pro Wrestling Talk on the Web and Social Media

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/fighting/

Twitter: @jimmyv3

YouTube: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProWrestlingSouthFlorida/

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Jim Varsallone
Miami Herald
Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription
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