WWE Fires Writer Who Said She Wasn’t Required to Know Anything About Wrestling

WWE has reportedly fired one of their TV writers, Kenice Mobley, after she said on a recent podcast that WWE didn’t require her to know anything about wrestling when they hired her.

For what it’s worth, I’m told fan reaction to Kenice Mobley’s podcast appearance had little to nothing to do with the decision for WWE to let her go. I was told it was more of an internal concern. What she was told, I’m not sure.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Voice Over Work (@SeanRossSapp) June 25, 2021

Mobley appeared on the Asian Not Asian podcast earlier this month and had this to say (transcript h/t Post Wrestling):

Yes, I have just been hired by WWE. Given the things that you know about me and my entire life and what I’m into, yes [that’s surprising]. Yes, also a surprise for me. They did not require me to know anything about wrestling but I do have a background in film production and comedy writing and they’re like, ‘Perfect. Come on in.’

Mobley apparently wasn’t even sure of the name of the current WWE Champion, Bobby Lashley.

So I am on the Monday Night Raw team. So there’s Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown and the people I know that are on it are Bobby — his name is either Bobby Ashley or Bobby Lashley and I really should know that. He’s like this giant Black guy and he and the people who are part of his crew, I know that they call — or at least as of last year, they called themselves The Hurt Business. The Hurt Business. They wear suits and they’re like, ‘We’re cool.’

WWE has several writers on their staff with no wrestling background, but her speaking about it openly appears to have embarrassed them.

Dave Meltzer said in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that it turned into a “fairly big thing” within WWE:

This turned into a fairly big thing, heavily talked about on social media but also noted among those on the inside. Mobley was also under the gun for speaking publicly on subjects that WWE doesn’t want stuff talked about. One person very close to the situation noted the negative reaction to this and said that she is not the only one in this situation, and actually this is typical of many of the writers. But where they were embarrassed by this is that by going public, it makes WWE to the outside world look “blindingly stupid.”