The following are highlights of a new H2H Radio interview with former WWE
Diva Maxine:
On having her gimmick taken by Aksana: “I got
myself over with the fans and at the end of the day, there’s a lot of politics
going on backstage. Aksana was found by somebody important backstage, so that
became their girl. That push, it just happened so randomly that one day
(laughs), one day I pitched a storyline that I spent time writing—very long
time—and I had my jet black hair with bangs, the black catsuit on, which people
kinda remember from the FCW days when they see pictures and I was the General
Manager of FCW, so it only made sense. I wrote and pitched the storyline of
going up to Smackdown and seducing Teddy Long and eventually trying to take over
Smackdown.
“When I pitched that storyline to the writers and the boss man, I had to cut
a promo, I had to have a match and pitch the storyline. Within twenty-four
hours, the very next day, I walk into FCW and I’m sat down and I’m told that I
have to change my hair and my entire look. And I ask why, and they said it was
too similar to Aksana. Well, you gotta remember, the day before that, she was
bleached blonde, playing the Aksana, kinda ditzy, hosting “The Aksana Show.” So
within twenty-four hours, she had jet black hair, was wearing a black catsuit
and that following week was getting sent up to SmackDown to seduce Teddy Long.
So call it what you must, but it was definitely very, very, very extremely
similar (laughs) to what I wrote and what I pitched. And then after that, I was
asked to actually help her with her promos, so it was a pretty good shot and
slap in my face.
“I got back up. I changed my hair, I changed my outfit, which I ended up
wearing; the black full-piece garter outfit, which ended up being my main one
and I changed everything and I did what I had to do to make myself different
once again. This happened on more then one occasion where my stuff and the stuff
I’ve written and pitched—and I’m not the only one in the business that happened
to, but that was pretty blunt and obvious (laughs). To the point that when I
walked into the arena of FCW, the boys kinda went silent and were just staring
at me because they knew.”
