Liv Morgan and Mandy Rose were once involved in a real fight.
In November 2017, Liv Morgan, Sonya Deville, and Mandy Rose all made their main roster debuts following successful stints in NXT. Morgan arrived as part of The Riott Squad alongside Ruby Riott and Sarah Logan, while Deville and Rose, later known collectively as Fire and Desire, joined forces with former WWE Divas Champion Paige to form Absolution.
Appearing on CJ Perry’s Identity Crisis podcast, Daria Berenato, formerly known in WWE as Sonya Deville, revealed that a pull-apart promo drill at the WWE Performance Center between Liv Morgan and Mandy Rose once escalated into a real fight between the pair.
“We’re in promo class and we did this drill and it’s called the pull-apart promo. You do a pretend pull-apart. People are security, or other people are pulling you off the other girl and you’re just pretending, and then you have to cut a promo right after. So they’re doing a pull-apart. Me, Aliyah, Danielle Kamela — we were the three people to pull them apart… I’m in the middle of the two of them and they’re doing it and it feels normal at first. Then I’m feeling wind whiz past my ear and I’m like, ‘Yo, they’re really throwing.’ And then I hear one of them say, ‘What, b*tch?’ Then I look — Aliyah’s gone. Danielle’s gone. They bounced because now it is a scramble, and I’m in the middle. I’m shooting on both of them to get them off each other. Mandy had Gionna’s hair, Gionna had Mandy’s hair, and they’re screaming at each other and swinging for the fences. Finally, the boys slide in to help me rip them apart. They get in the ring. We get them apart. They slide out. Coaches are yelling. [Matt] Bloom comes in and everyone’s freaking out. Mandy was so proud at the time that she didn’t have hair extensions back then. So [Liv] rolls out and she’s like, ‘You pulled my hair.’ And Mandy goes, ‘At least my hair is real, b*tch.’ And they’re just f*cking each other up now, cursing each other out… The coaches came in and gave a big speech… I think one swung a little too snug and the other retaliated.”
-Daria Berenato
Mandy Rose was released from WWE in December 2022 following a reign as NXT Women’s Champion, whilst Sonya Deville departed the company in February 2025 after her contract expired.
Liv Morgan, meanwhile, is a former two-time Women’s World Champion and is currently aligned with The Judgment Day. However, she has been absent from WWE television since the June 16 edition of Monday Night RAW after suffering a dislocated shoulder.
Reports emerged last month that Morgan is expected to return to WWE TV by the beginning of 2026. You can read more about that here.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Daria Berenato’s future as soon as we hear more, and we continue to wish Liv Morgan all the best in her recovery.
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