Former WWE NXT General Manager Ava says she received criticism from “so many angry conservative men”
Simone Johnson aka Ava, former WWE NXT General Manager and daughter of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, received negative feedback for her social media activity following the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk in 2025. It started when Ava shared an X post from comedian Gianmarco Soresi on her Instagram story which read, “If you want people to have kind words when you pass, you should say kind things when you’re alive.” Ava later wrote on Twitter/X, “And I’ll stand behind this. be kind, now more than ever.”
While appearing on The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi podcast, Ava addressed the backlash…
“I was quite used to getting hated on by wrestling fans and I was like, ‘All right, whatever. Fine.’ I’m used to that, blah blah, sh*tting on me because of who my dad is. They’d be calling me every type of slur, but that’s from wrestling fans. However, there were so many angry conservative men that I was like, ‘You don’t even know who I am.'”