| Fire and Desire | |
|---|---|
 Rose (left) and Deville (right) in August 2019 | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Mandy Rose Sonya Deville |
| Name(s) | Absolution Fire and Desire Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville |
| Former member(s) | Paige (leader) |
| Debut | November 20, 2017 (2017-11-20) |
| Disbanded | April 3, 2020 (2020-4-3) |
| Years active | 2017–2020 |
Fire and Desire was an Americanprofessional wrestlingtag team inWWE, consisting ofMandy Rose andSonya Deville. The team was formed in 2017 on theRawbrand originally as a trio calledAbsolution, which consisted ofPaige (as the founder and leader), Rose and Deville with the latter two jumping to the main roster fromNXT.[1][2] In 2018, Paige retired from in-ring competition due to her injuries and became the SmackDown General Manager, ending her alliance with Rose and Deville.[3] Rose and Deville continued teaming together and the team was renamed "Fire and Desire" in late 2019.[4][5] The team dissolved in 2020 when Deville betrayed Rose by conniving withDolph Ziggler to create friction between Rose andOtis.[6]
On the November 20, 2017 episode ofRaw, the night afterSurvivor Series,Paige made her return to WWE after a year-long hiatus due to injury, along with the debutingMandy Rose andSonya Deville fromNXT and attackedBayley,Mickie James andSasha Banks, whileAlicia Fox managed to flee. The following week, the trio dubbed themselves "Absolution" and attacked Fox after her match withAsuka. Absolution had their first match as a team on the December 11 episode ofRaw, in which Rose and Paige defeated Bayley and James in a tag team match. They had their first televised match as a trio at2017 Tribute to the Troops, in which Paige, Rose and Deville defeated Bayley, Banks and James in a six-woman tag team match. They lost a rematch to Bayley, Banks and James by disqualification on the December 18 episode ofRaw but defeated them on the December 25 episode ofRaw. On December 27, Paige suffered a neck injury after receiving a kick from Banks during a six-man tag team match between Absolution and the team of Bayley, Banks and James at a house show, which led to the referee stopping the match. Paige's injury put her out of action but she continued to manage Rose and Deville during matches at ringside.
Rose and Deville continued to represent Absolution as a tag team and continued to trade wins with Bayley, Mickie James and Sasha Banks in tag team matches and six-man tag team matches throughout early 2018. Paige retired from in-ring competition on the post-WrestleMania 34 episode ofRaw on April 9. The following night, onSmackDown, theSmackDown CommissionerShane McMahon made Paige, the new general manager of theSmackDownbrand after former general managerDaniel Bryan resigned from his position due to his in-ring return. On April 17, Rose and Deville joined Paige on the SmackDown brand in the2018 Superstar Shake-up. However, Paige ended her association with the group by dissolving Absolution on the May 1 episode ofSmackDown and refused to grant any favors to Rose and Deville.
Following the dissolution of Absolution, Rose and Deville continued their alliance as a tag team. Their first match as a team on SmackDown took place on the June 5 episode ofSmackDown, where they lost toAsuka in ahandicap match. Rose and Deville sporadically teamed together throughout 2018 and lost their matches to combinations of Asuka,Becky Lynch,Charlotte Flair andNaomi before picking up their first win on the December 4 episode ofSmackDown by defeating Asuka and Flair. They also represented Team SmackDown against Team Raw in afive-on-five women's elimination match atSurvivor Series, which Team SmackDown lost. Rose and Deville would then begin feuding with Naomi which led to Rose flirting with Naomi's husbandJimmy Uso, which led to the two sides exchanging wins with each other in singles competition.
On February 17, 2019, Rose and Deville participated in anElimination Chamber match for the newWomen's Tag Team Championship at thenamesake event, which was won byThe Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Bayley andSasha Banks). Soon after, Rose and Deville began a feud with Asuka over herSmackDown Women's Championship, which Rose failed to win atFastlane. Dissolution was teased as both of them had accidentally cost each other matches against Asuka during the feud but maintained their alliance.
On the August 5 episode ofRaw, Rose and Deville participated in a fatal four-way elimination match for the Women's Tag Team Championship against the defending championsThe IIconics (Billie Kay andPeyton Royce),The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka andKairi Sane) and the team ofAlexa Bliss andNikki Cross. Rose and Deville eliminated IIconics from the match but were eliminated by Kabuki Warriors. Bliss and Cross went on to win the match. Shortly after, Rose and Deville's team was named "Fire and Desire" and they defeated Bliss and Cross in a non-title match on the September 3 episode ofSmackDown, which earned them a title shot against Bliss and Cross for the Women's Tag Team Championship atClash of Champions, which they lost. On the November 8 episode ofSmackDown, Fire and Desire lost toCarmella andDana Brooke in a qualification match for Team SmackDown atSurvivor Series. Fire and Desire would then briefly feud with Bliss and Cross for the next two months which led to both teams exchanging wins. On the March 6, 2020 episode ofSmackDown, Fire and Desire wrestled their last match as a team in which they defeated Carmella and Dana Brooke.
In late 2019, Rose got involved in a romancestoryline withOtis. Rose agreed to go on a Valentine's Day date with Otis on the February 14, 2020 episode ofSmackDown,[7] butDolph Ziggler appeared in Otis's place during the date, which resulted in a romance between Rose and Ziggler.[8] The storyline then evolved into a love triangle involving a feud between Otis and Ziggler over Rose.[9] It was revealed on the April 3 episode ofSmackDown that Deville was working with Ziggler to keep Otis from Rose, thus marking the breakup of Fire and Desire.[10] On April 5 atWrestleMania 36, Rose interfered during a match between Otis and Ziggler by attacking Deville, who was at ringside, and Ziggler, which helped Otis score the victory.[11]
This resulted in a feud between Rose and Deville, during which Deville branded her selfish out of jealousy and attacked her, vowing to "ruin her life". Deville would cost Rose, aMoney in the Bank qualifying match against Carmella on the May 1 episode ofSmackDown. This led to a match between Rose and Deville on the May 8SmackDown, which Deville won. On the May 22 episode ofSmackDown, Rose and Otis were defeated by Deville and Ziggler in a tag team match.[12] On the August 14 edition ofSmackDown, Rose challenged Deville to aHair vs. Hair match atSummerSlam, which the latter accepted. A week later, the stipulation was changed to aLoser Leaves WWE match. On August 23, Deville lost to Rose at SummerSlam, thus forcing Deville to (kayfabe) leave WWE.[13]
Rose would eventually bedrafted to Raw while Deville would be reinstated as assistant to Adam Pearce on SmackDown in 2021.
Paige left WWE in July 2022 and signed withAll Elite Wrestling (AEW) two months later under her real name, Saraya.[14] In August 2023 atAll In, Saraya won theAEW Women's World Championship in her home country,[15] making her the first woman to have won women's world championships in WWE and AEW.
In July 2021, Rose was moved back to NXT and she founded her own stable calledToxic Attraction a month later.[16] Toxic Attraction enjoyed huge success in NXT as the forefront of the NXT women's division during theNXT 2.0 era, with the stable holding the NXT Women's and NXT Women's Tag Team Championships fromOctober 2021 toJuly 2022. Rose's soleNXT Women's Championship reign is the third longest at 413 days[17] whereas her stablematesGigi Dolin andJacy Jayne won theNXT Women's Tag Team Championship for a record-tying two-times.[18] In September 2022 atWorlds Collide, Roseunified theNXT UK Women's Championship into the NXT Women's Championship.[19] In the middle of October 2022, Deville returned to NXT to assist Toxic Attraction in Rose's temporary absence.[20] In December 2022, Rose was released from her WWE contract a day after she lost her title and her stable was disbanded in February 2023.[21][22]
In July 2023, Deville won theWWE Women's Tag Team Championship withChelsea Green. However, Deville was forced to relinquish the title less than a month later after suffering anACL injuryOn February 7 2025 Deviile was released by her WWE contract .[23][24]