From Jade’s perspective, she especially felt overwhelmed by the many voices weighing in on her in-ring performance, with part of their feedback centering on her pacing. She also wanted to make a good impression on them, but instead believed her outing may have been cause for WWE to let her go.

“The match just didn’t go how I wanted it to, which happens sometimes,” Jade said, “but being that new and having all that pressure on me, getting all the feedback, constructive criticism … obviously that’s good. I always wanted to have improvements. Especially first coming in, I was trying to get advice from as much people as I could, whether it was Shawn [Michaels], Hunter, other wrestlers, people like [Rose] who had been there longer than me.

“I was just getting so much information from everybody and that’s just how it is. You adjust to it, but being there and being so new having all of that thrown on my plate, it immediately felt like ‘Oh my god, I’m such a bad wrestler. I shouldn’t be here. I’m going to get fired tomorrow.'”

Seeing Jade’s emotional aftermath of her critique, Rose remembered comforting her with a reminder that the job of a WWE PC coach is just that — to coach the rising talents under the wings. Rose added that no one, including the wrestling greats, was perfect either.

In retrospect, Jade now realizes that the coaches’ feedback about her in-ring pacing was a small criticism amongst a wider scale. Also now at 24, Jade is a free agent, with four years of experience at WWE carrying her forward in her next moves.

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