Deville further recalled feeling wind past her face as the two women began throwing punches, and then hearing the two throw verbal attacks mid-brawl. “And then I’m like: ‘Wait. Is this real?’ And then I feel the intensity in somebody’s body when they’re no longer working?” she recalled, which Perry related with, agreeing that it’s something that wrestlers know after years in the industry. “When they grab and you just know: oh, it’s a fight now? So, I’m feeling that, and then I look [and] Nouf’s gone, Aliyah’s gone, Daniela’s gone. They bounced! Because now, it is a scramble!”

Deville then realized that she was in the middle of a real brawl between Rose and Morgan, and that she had to quickly do something. “And I’m going ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!’ And I’m like shooting on both of them to get them off each other!” she recalled, noting that the two women grabbed hold of each other’s hair and began swinging at each other. “Finally, the boys slide in to help me rip them apart, ’cause they go, you know, untamed animals. We get them apart, okay, they slide out, the coaches are yelling (…) and Mandy was so proud at the time that she didn’t have hair extensions back then, so she rolls out, and she’s like ‘You pulled my hair, you pulled my hair!’ and she goes, ‘At least my hair’s real, b**ch!'”

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