Joy Giovanni reflects on her WWE firing.
Joy Giovanni participated in the 2004 Diva Search and came in third place. The WWE nonetheless gave her a three-year contract following the contest. Mostly a character on-screen, Joy collaborated with performers like Kurt Angle, Paul Wight (The Big Show), JBL, and others.
In July 2005, the company let her go.
Joy recalls being let go by the company when she appeared on Cafe de Rene with Rene Dupree.
“They released me with a group of 50. Remember when they released Funaki, Charlie and Jackie Haas, and all those people? I was part of that. I was the last. Mark Jindrak was in my little crew. I had been at TV the last week, it was in Arizona. There were like 50 of us (released). I think I was the last one to find out because Mark and I are friends and I called him, probably crying, ‘what is going on?’ ‘Yeah, they do this.’ I had no idea. Who thinks…you get hired, they do all this to hire you, they sought me out after (the Diva search) personally. They bring you in, you sign a three-year deal, and they let you go after a year. I knew it was in the fine print, but you don’t think it’s going to happen.”
Joy Giovanni on her release from WWE
At WrestleMania 25, Giovanni did make a comeback to WWE to compete in the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal.
Her only official match with the company was at WrestleMania 25.
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