Toxic Attraction was an American villainous

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on the NXT

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. The group originally consisted of

Mandy Rose Amanda Rose Saccomanno (born July 18, 1990) is an American professional wrestler, television personality, and fitness and figure competitor. She is best known for her career in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Mandy Rose, and was ...

Gigi Dolin Priscilla Lee Kelly (born June 5, 1997) is an American professional wrestler and former reality television personality. She is best known for her tenure in WWE where she performed under the ring name Gigi Dolin. She is a former record-tying two- ...

, and

Jacy Jayne Taylor Grado (born June 2, 1996) is an American professional wrestler. , she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the NXT (WWE brand), NXT WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Jacy Jayne, and is the current NXT Women's Champion in he ...

. After Rose was released from her WWE contract in December 2022, Toxic Attraction became a

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of Dolin and Jayne before they split in February 2023, ending the group. The stable originally formed in August 2021. During their time together, Rose held the

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for 413 days and unified the

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into the NXT Women's Championship, while Dolin and Jayne held the

NXT Women's Tag Team Championship The NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling women's tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. It was defended on the company's developmental brand, NXT, and was briefly featured on the ...

for a record-tying two times. Toxic Attraction was at the forefront of the NXT women's division during the NXT 2.0 era until Rose was released in December 2022 and after Jayne turned on Dolin following an unsuccessful attempt at the NXT Women's Championship in February 2023. After the breakup, the two women would feud until the end of May.

History

Formation and dominace (2021–2022)

On the July 13, 2021, episode of '' NXT'',

, who had been performing on

's main roster, returned to the NXT brand and was paired with

and

. The trio established themselves as

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and Rose debuted a new dark-haired look. The following week, the trio named themselves "Toxic Attraction". Following this, Rose began feuding with

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Raquel González, while Dolin and Jayne began feuding with

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and

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over the

. At ''NXT'': Halloween Havoc, Dolin and Jayne won a

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to win the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, while Rose defeated González for the NXT Women's Championship, marking Rose's first title in her career and making Toxic Attraction the first stable to simultaneously hold all the titles in the NXT women's division in one night.

Breakup and feud (2022–2023)

Dolin and Jayne would hold the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship for 158 days, losing it during the NXT Stand & Deliver Kickoff show to

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and Raquel González. They regained the titles three days later and held it for 91 days, losing it at ''NXT'': The Great American Bash against

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and

Roxanne Perez Carla Gonzalez (born November 5, 2001) is an American professional wrestler. , she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Roxanne Perez. She is a former two-time NXT Women's Champion, and a former NXT Women' ...

. Rose would hold the NXT Women's Championship for 413 days and, during her reign, she also won a

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at the 2022 Worlds Collide event against

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and

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to unify both championships. On the December 13, 2022, episode of ''NXT'', Rose lost her title to Perez. The next morning, Rose was released from WWE due to allegations of explicit content being posted on her FanTime page. This in turn made Toxic Attraction a standard tag team of Dolin and Jayne. At ''NXT'': New Year's Evil on January 10, 2023, Dolin and Jayne were declared co-winners of a 20-woman

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after eliminating each other simultaneously, earning an NXT Women's Championship match against Perez in a triple threat match at NXT Vengeance Day, where both women failed to win the title. Three days later on the February 7 episode of ''NXT'', during a "Ding Dong, Hello!" segment hosted by Bayley, Jayne turned on Dolin, ending Toxic Attraction. The two then entered a feud where Dolin defeated Jayne at

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in March, but Jayne won the rematch in May. In the rubber match to end their feud, Dolin defeated Jayne in a Weaponized

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on the May 30 episode of ''NXT''.

Championships and accomplishments

* ''

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'' ** Ranked No. 21 of the top 150 female singles wrestlers in the ''

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'' in 2022 – Rose ** Ranked No. 48 of the top 150 female singles wrestlers in the ''PWI Women's 150'' in 2022 – Dolin ** Ranked No. 49 of the top 150 female singles wrestlers in the ''PWI Women's 150'' in 2022 – Jayne ** Ranked No. 14 of the top 100 Tag Teams in the ''

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'' in 2022 – Dolin and Jayne *

( 1 time) – Rose **

(

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) – Dolin and Jayne

References

External links

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Toxic Attraction's profile at Cagematch.net
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