New Black WWE Writer Kenice Mobley: "They Did Not Require Me To Know Anything About Wrestling”

[Thebadguy]

** Fumi of the ‘Asian Not Asian’ podcast welcomed new WWE writer Kenice Mobley onto the show. Kenice is a stand-up comedian and has been featured on The Tonight Show, VICE and NBC. She admitted that she was not immersed in wrestling, but WWE did not require her to know much about it as a whole.

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.’

She shared that she is a part of the Raw writing team and as of the podcast release date which was June 7th, she had not started her position yet.

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.’

Elsewhere during the conversation, Kenice recounted being asked if she thought working for WWE would diminish her dignity and she disagreed with that.

I went on a date and this guy was like, ‘Don’t you feel like you’re –’ he effectively said, ‘Don’t you feel like you’re diminishing your dignity writing for WWE?’ And I was like, ‘Um, I am getting paid to do the thing that I’ve been working on for eight years,’ and this is twice — or no, this is three times what I make at my non-profit job so yeah, I’m gonna take it.


New WWE writer Kenice Mobley discusses joining the company

 

[FunkDoc1112]

What a joke

 

[Paper Boi]

when I was a kid I used to fantasy book shyt with my action figures and even on the video games.

being a writer for WWE is nothing like that. sounds like a nightmare job.

i guess it might be less nightmarish if you know nothing and don't give a shyt about wrestling.

still writing to impress old ass vince or bruce pritchard still sounds pretty horrible.

 

[Vice Queen]

I'm praying for both these sisters.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

WOW

 

[RammerJammer]

Bobby Ashley

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

WWE ain't never gave a fukk about who they hired. Dead ass I know someone who worked for them as a writer and one day I had a conversation with him and just started picking his brain. I started throwing shyt out there about things I had read online and he was like "how did you know that". Right then and there I was like "WWE don't give a fukk who they hire to write for them". This was back in 2014.

Anyone in the know would have said "damn you really follow the internet news" but this fool really was wondering how I knew that Mark Henry and Michael Hayes got into a fight at the bar because he called him a racial slur.

Dude was legit like while I was like

 

[Flex Luger]

Bobby Ashley

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

I get wanting an outside perspective but damn having little to no product knowledge

 

[norfwestdc]

Yes they want to hire people they could mold to fit their WWE format.

 

[Alexander The Great]

"huge black guy" she definitely dates white boys

 

[trick]

I'm praying for both these sisters.

Probably shouldn't have done that interview, she's definitely getting fired after that

How do you write for someone every week and not know their name

 

[Silkk]

WOW

My thoughts reading that

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Bobby Ashley

Bobby Ashley vs. Kliff Kingsbury at SummerJam

 

[Elim Garak]

But some members say wrestling isn't dying