Raquel has back muscles

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Did you notice that Raquel has back muscles?



She has really big and strong back muscles.




This is the only character trait we want to give Raquel "has back muscles" González and push, GOT IT? We're definitely not over-pushing this as her one character trait if this even counts as a character trait. OKAY?!?!?

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

Her lack of character or development has stagnated to an agonizing level. Being an improved wrestler isn’t good enough.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

A thread where people meme on Raquel Gonzalez with nickname stuff but every post is just Raquel "has back muscles" Gonzalez without fail and everyone likes every post down the line in it like it's a new one anyway

[Celexa Bliss 54]

I read this as "Regal has back muscles" and was confused lol

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Tonight really exposed the weird duality of Raquel. The match was pretty good! ... But at no point did she at all feel like a star, and it felt like they didn't even trust her to do that much because quite a lot of it was just Ember beating her ass.

[Mayonnaise]

Jun 13, 2021 21:28:42 GMT -5 häšhtå.gdālėÿ said:

Her lack of character or development has stagnated to an agonizing level. Being an improved wrestler isn’t good enough.

Yeah, they really need to do more with her than Flex Latina.

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Jun 13, 2021 21:29:03 GMT -5 Celexa Bliss 54 said:

I read this as "Regal has back muscles" and was confused lol

[RKTaker]

Jun 13, 2021 21:28:42 GMT -5 häšhtå.gdālėÿ said:

Her lack of character or development has stagnated to an agonizing level. Being an improved wrestler isn’t good enough.

she has a character it's bodyguard who's an improved wrestler

[khali]

Dakota Kai showed more personality outside the ring tonight (and every other night).

[kingoftheindies]

Yeah Raquel's lack of interest to me was pretty much a give in and I'm not blaming her lack of experience. Whoever best Io for the title would have an uphill battle. But for all the talent the women in NXT have they just don't have many wrestlers with momentum

[Sam Punk]

That's why she is the first Mexican women's champion!

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Rellik is "has back muscles" spelled backwards.

[mistery]

Jun 13, 2021 21:40:18 GMT -5 kingoftheindies said:

Yeah Raquel's lack of interest to me was pretty much a give in and I'm not blaming her lack of experience. Whoever best Io for the title would have an uphill battle. But for all the talent the women in NXT have they just don't have many wrestlers with momentum

I don't think anyone is blaming her for the lack of experience, the problem is that it's becoming more and more obvious that she was the wrong choice to dethrone Io. Even the can of paint I bought at Wal-Mart today has more personality than her and it's grey, one of the least exciting colors out there!!!

The match itself was technically fine, but they really need to stop trying to claim Raquel is some big badass who is a force of nature when she can't even win matches without help from Dakota. It doesn't help that this match was booked almost identical to the Io match from Stand and Deliver, just without the jumping off a tall object spot. Where Ember controls 95% of the match and does all of the heavy lifting (no pun intended) spots, and then Raquel suddenly no sells everything at the end and hits her finisher for the win and is perfectly fine afterwards. Combine that with her being completely devoid of charisma and it's little wonder that audiences don't care about her. She's basically the women's version of Karrion Kross.

It REALLY doesn't help when you have her idiot boyfriend (Braun) popping off on Twitter attacking fans for criticizing her.

[kingoftheindies]

Jun 13, 2021 21:54:27 GMT -5 mistery said:

Jun 13, 2021 21:40:18 GMT -5 kingoftheindies said:

Yeah Raquel's lack of interest to me was pretty much a give in and I'm not blaming her lack of experience. Whoever best Io for the title would have an uphill battle. But for all the talent the women in NXT have they just don't have many wrestlers with momentum

I don't think anyone is blaming her for the lack of experience, the problem is that it's becoming more and more obvious that she was the wrong choice to dethrone Io. Even the can of paint I bought at Wal-Mart today has more personality than her and it's grey, one of the least exciting colors out there!!!

The match itself was technically fine, but they really need to stop trying to claim Raquel is some big badass who is a force of nature when she can't even win matches without help from Dakota. It doesn't help that this match was booked almost identical to the Io match from Stand and Deliver, just without the jumping off a tall object spot. Where Ember controls 95% of the match and does all of the heavy lifting (no pun intended) spots, and then Raquel suddenly no sells everything at the end and hits her finisher for the win and is perfectly fine afterwards. Combine that with her being completely devoid of charisma and it's little wonder that audiences don't care about her. She's basically the women's version of Karrion Kross.

It REALLY doesn't help when you have her idiot boyfriend (Braun) popping off on Twitter attacking fans for criticizing her.

Let me rephrase. I think it was time for someone to beat Io and Raquel had momentum... or at least hadn't been beaten yet. The issue was always gonna become who does she face? She isn't the ring general where she can have a match with anybody and get you invested, you don't have any baby faces with momentum to get people interested, and unless you want to use Franky or Candice to turn Raquel face now the heels don't have any momentum either.

They basically were always in a situation where you are waiting for Io to come back for a rematch or you start planting seeds for Dakota to turn heel. But until either happens you basically have a green opponent who doesn't have anybody to help her get heat

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Jun 13, 2021 22:02:07 GMT -5 kingoftheindies said:

Jun 13, 2021 21:54:27 GMT -5 mistery said:

I don't think anyone is blaming her for the lack of experience, the problem is that it's becoming more and more obvious that she was the wrong choice to dethrone Io. Even the can of paint I bought at Wal-Mart today has more personality than her and it's grey, one of the least exciting colors out there!!!

The match itself was technically fine, but they really need to stop trying to claim Raquel is some big badass who is a force of nature when she can't even win matches without help from Dakota. It doesn't help that this match was booked almost identical to the Io match from Stand and Deliver, just without the jumping off a tall object spot. Where Ember controls 95% of the match and does all of the heavy lifting (no pun intended) spots, and then Raquel suddenly no sells everything at the end and hits her finisher for the win and is perfectly fine afterwards. Combine that with her being completely devoid of charisma and it's little wonder that audiences don't care about her. She's basically the women's version of Karrion Kross.

It REALLY doesn't help when you have her idiot boyfriend (Braun) popping off on Twitter attacking fans for criticizing her.

Let me rephrase. I think it was time for someone to beat Io and Raquel had momentum... or at least hadn't been beaten yet. The issue was always gonna become who does she face? She isn't the ring general where she can have a match with anybody and get you invested, you don't have any baby faces with momentum to get people interested, and unless you want to use Franky or Candice to turn Raquel face now the heels don't have any momentum either.

They basically were always in a situation where you are waiting for Io to come back for a rematch or you start planting seeds for Dakota to turn heel. But until either happens you basically have a green opponent who doesn't have anybody to help her get heat

It is why I kept vouching for Franky to be the one to beat Io even if it was just a short reign....you would atleast have someone who has limitless star presence to her and would be able to follow Io's amazing reign but in a different manner.

Io is likely to shore up the womens tag title scene here soon....so they better get the Dakota feud rollin or push Franky to be the one to beat Raquel because honestly they have no other choices right now.

[Mecca]

They're literally pushing her because she's big and her dad ran Shawn Michaels wrestling school.. nepotism at it's finest.

[theironyuppie]

Jun 13, 2021 21:33:48 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Tonight really exposed the weird duality of Raquel. The match was pretty good! ... But at no point did she at all feel like a star, and it felt like they didn't even trust her to do that much because quite a lot of it was just Ember beating her ass.

Yeah, it's strange that they're simultaneously presenting her as a monster yet having her in title matches where much smaller women (Io, Ember) kick her ass for 90% of it. It might make for a more entertaining match in the moment, but it also doesn't help her character.

[Susan "Poison" Candy]

[mistery]

Yeah, I think Braun trying to defend her honor on Twitter isn't doing her any favors.

i.imgur.com/6QgJGM1.png

Like it's one thing to defend your girlfriend, its another to take unprovoked shots at two way more popular coworkers (Asuka was tagged as well) who by all accounts are universally well loved behind the scenes.

This will just breed more ire towards her unless he deletes those tweets and apologizes, but he won't. And apparently she liked his tweets lashing out at fans and her coworkers so yikes.

[Mecca]

Jun 13, 2021 23:24:13 GMT -5 mistery said:

Yeah, I think Braun trying to defend her honor on Twitter isn't doing her any favors.

i.imgur.com/6QgJGM1.png

Brauns such a dipshit. He thinks he's better than the "marks"