The WWE career of Lana has seen a few noteworthy twists and turns. Everyone instantly thinks of her run with Rusev since it found the most success in her run so far. WWE has come up with and quit on a few plans for Lana with many backstage stories playing a role in the changes.

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Various wrestlers have had mixed relationships with Lana from her close friends to people she developed heat with. Lana has certainly found her name in headlines with quite a few behind the scenes details coming out about to give further insight. Find out more about what made her a controversial figure. The following backstage stories will give you a surprising glimpse at Lana behind the scenes.

10 Vince thought she was too good for Rusev

Rusev and Lana feud

Many fans were shocked and confused about WWE splitting up Rusev and Lana since they worked so well together. One common report from the time was that Vince McMahon didn’t understand why Lana was with Rusev given his perceptions of their looks.

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McMahon had similar feelings about a few real-life couples like that in the past. Rusev and Lana were kept apart for a few months with Lana moving into a bigger push away from her. Vince always stopped short with Rusev’s push.

9 Was once planned to be top face in women's division

The hope for Lana by WWE was that she would become a solid wrestler to join the women’s division. Lana’s inherent charisma and acting skills made her a top prospect for WWE in the early days, and she was even credited more than Rusev for his success.

WWE wanted Lana to become a top face when she broke up with Rusev on-screen. The romantic angle with face Dolph Ziggler was done to slowly ease the fans into liking her ahead of the bigger push coming her way that just never materialized.

8 Accused Paige of bullying her in NXT

Paige and Lana exchanged a few public insults throughout the years after their time together in NXT and on the main roster. Lana claimed she was bullied by Paige when starting her WWE career during Paige’s time as a top NXT star.

The retorts of Paige saw her aggressively expressing how much Lana was lying along with a few comments calling out Lana’s general actions outside of the ring. Both ladies have revealed they’ve made peace and become friends since airing out their grievances.

7 Relationship with Liv inspired from real life bond

Liv Morgan and Lana had one of the first same sex romantic storylines in the wrestling industry in early 2020. The return of Morgan saw her interrupting Lana and Bobby Lashley’s wedding to reveal her dating history with Lana.

WWE moved forward with this angle due to the two having a close friendship. Dozens of photos of them hanging out together throughout the years appeared on their social media feed and were used in part of the storylines.

6 Natalya and Brie Bella mentored her

The current storyline of Lana managing Natalya stems from their real-life friendship and both needing something new. Natalya was one of the first women in WWE to offer advice to Lana. The two even paired up for Total Divas storylines of Lana visiting Nattie’s home.

Another instance of Total Divas showing a Lana friendship featured Brie Bella mentoring her in early 2016. Their rivalry played the biggest role in a WrestleMania 32 ten-woman tag team match. Brie was working extensively with Lana in the ring before shows due to her lack of experience.

5 Heat with Ronda Rousey

Various women from WWE have come out with public insults towards Ronda Rousey since she left WWE in early 2019. Despite having better matches than most with her lack of experience would, many of Rousey’s peers felt disrespected by her reckless style and insulting comments about wrestling being fake.

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Lana jumped on board with a few tweets trashing Rousey for overlooking the real injuries of wrestlers when dropping the fake comment. The two had heat even though they never worked directly together in any programs.

4 Heat with Sasha Banks

Sasha Banks was one of the higher profile names to have heat with Lana earlier in their careers. Lana was caught liking tweets that questioned the skillset and professionalism of Banks that earned her heat with Sasha fans.

Various fans put together tweets from Banks, Summer Rae and a few other friends with the #BL2017 hashtag standing for Block Lana. This was around the time Lana had a reputation for blocking any fans who had criticism towards her whether tagged or not. Lana has praised Sasha in recent years to imply whatever issues they had have been resolved.

3 WWE intentionally saved her debut for WM

WWE clearly viewed Lana as a future top star when trying to plan out her career. Lana was a rare wrestler whose first official match was saved for WrestleMania. WWE wanted to make a huge impact for her in-ring career starting on the biggest stage.

Lana was part of the heel team at WrestleMania 32 losing to the faces led by Brie Bella in her retirement match. WWE set an attendance record this night which meant Lana’s debut came in front of a historic crowd as per the company’s desire for her future.

2 Leaking real engagement to TMZ ruined WWE's storylines

Lana and Rusev get married

The hope for WWE in 2015 was to have Lana moving forward as a face when making her eventual debut in the ring and Rusev remaining as a heel with Summer Rae. Lana ruined the plans when leaking the news of her real engagement with Rusev to TMZ.

WWE was reportedly livid with one of their bigger storylines essentially being ruined by the real-life relationship between Rusev and Lana making headlines. The angle was completely dropped with Lana reuniting with Rusev as a heel.

1 Paul Heyman wanted her to be cornerstone of Raw

Paul Heyman had huge plans for Lana when taking over Raw and reintroducing her as Bobby Lashley’s girlfriend. The love angle with Lashley, Lana, Rusev and Liv Morgan became a huge part of Raw with mixed results from fans.

Lana revealed that Heyman has been one of her biggest mentors and supporters behind the scenes. Heyman’s success as a personality who didn’t wrestle has seen him helping out fellow performers who fit that role. Lana was expected to become a huge part of Raw with multiple closing show segments, but WWE eventually phased Heyman out to ruin those plans.

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