brentreznor
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Post by brentreznor on Mar 14, 2019 12:03:31 GMT -5
With the WWE being mostly lame right now. When Alexa appears, the crowd reaction is "Well, at least this is a hot chick. That's something to cheer about"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 12:13:43 GMT -5
No one is too pretty to be a heel.
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schma
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Post by schma on Mar 14, 2019 14:59:48 GMT -5
I'd say Asuka and Ember still count, they haven't been heels on WWE main yet. For Bayley and her gimmick that was a clear heel turn, it just didn't take for some reason. But Bayley cussing is a pure heel move, the purest heel I think ever seen IMO YOU AIN'T SHIT Sure glad they followed up on that well. Yeah, that's probably the strongest reaction she'd had on the main roster apart from maybe her debut and they did nothing with it apart from a really bad knockoff of Team Hell No. So disappointing.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 14, 2019 15:01:17 GMT -5
I don’t know, for some weird reason I always thought that the prettier a girl is, the easier it is for her to get heat.
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Post by Prince Petty on Mar 14, 2019 17:49:28 GMT -5
With the WWE being mostly lame right now. When Alexa appears, the crowd reaction is "Well, at least this is a hot chick. That's something to cheer about" Honestly, with Alexa I think part of it is that she's genuinely funny as a heel, as well as being hot. And fans generally do like it when heels are funny, even if it's at their expense. If she was just a generic bitchy heel, then she'd get booed.
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Post by trollrogue on Mar 15, 2019 5:39:49 GMT -5
YOU AIN'T SHIT Sure glad they followed up on that well. Yeah, that's probably the strongest reaction she'd had on the main roster apart from maybe her debut and they did nothing with it apart from a really bad knockoff of Team Hell No. So disappointing. I'd like to think what they did wrong with Bayley on RAW, they did right with Becky on SDLive. It's literally the same scenario-- a fellow Four Horsewoman screws over a pure babyface to the point where they blow a gasket and go into Super Saiyan mode. What crowd wouldn't cheer for that? But unlike with Bayley, they kept teasing the Tweener status of Becky and her Twitter game was so strong they had no choice but to pencil her in for 'Mania (especially after busting her face open during the RAW Raid) just the luck of the draw that it wasn't Bayley in the same spot as Becky I would say Damn this thread got on an interesting tangent btw
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Post by celtics543 on Mar 15, 2019 5:52:20 GMT -5
If Trish wasn't too pretty to be a heel then no one is too pretty to be a heel.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 15, 2019 6:23:11 GMT -5
No, WWE just has to stop relying on their played-out version of the "mean girl" trope.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 7:07:44 GMT -5
If WWE has a guy like Luke Harper, who looks like a believably insane person who came straight from a biker bar and can't figure out what to do with him, yet pushed "the giant 12 year-old" Baron Corbin as a badass lone wolf, looks make no difference.
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Post by sportatorium on Mar 15, 2019 13:36:51 GMT -5
Can anyone imagine if this was asked about a male wrestler? I guess I digress...
She’s a very effective heel, but was pretty much dominated by Nia and Ronda in title matches, so there is some rebuilding to do. She’s also small & takes painful looking bumps and is dealing with concussions.
When she returns to the ring, if she goes heel again they should give her a submission so she seems like a threat to the other women because she doesn’t seem like one right now. Maybe bring up Baszler to be her enforcer/tag partner to get some heat on her as a cheat.
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Post by schma on Mar 15, 2019 13:43:31 GMT -5
Yeah, that's probably the strongest reaction she'd had on the main roster apart from maybe her debut and they did nothing with it apart from a really bad knockoff of Team Hell No. So disappointing. I'd like to think what they did wrong with Bayley on RAW, they did right with Becky on SDLive. It's literally the same scenario-- a fellow Four Horsewoman screws over a pure babyface to the point where they blow a gasket and go into Super Saiyan mode. What crowd wouldn't cheer for that? But unlike with Bayley, they kept teasing the Tweener status of Becky and her Twitter game was so strong they had no choice but to pencil her in for 'Mania (especially after busting her face open during the RAW Raid) just the luck of the draw that it wasn't Bayley in the same spot as Becky I would say Damn this thread got on an interesting tangent btw I think there were other elements too. Becky is the stronger actor and promo and was able to lean into those strengths once she moved beyond the beatdowns that she was doing for several weeks after Summerslam. Meanwhile they stuck Bayley in some skits that really did not play to her strengths. But yeah, her beat down of Sasha should have marked a new era for her. A willingness to do what she hadn't before. She could even have stayed face but with an edge. Instead they've decided that no she has to be happy fun and loving all the time because little girls like her. This is ignoring the fact that they'd probably like her more if she wasn't such a goober when it counts. Really with Bayley after that beatdown she should have told Kurt to screw off with the attempt at reconciliation and demand a match with Sasha or something. There are so many many great directions they could have gone that they didn't because Raw tries to stick her into a little box.
It actually reminds me of Jason Segel having to convince Disney to use the Muppets again. In the meeting they said there was nothing they could do with them because the Muppets are always happy. He kind of incredulously asked if they had seen Muppets Take Manhattan or some of the other ones. They didn't get that the Muppets aren't always happy and silly and carefree and that's good.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 18:34:08 GMT -5
They're teasing a Nikki Cross feud, so hopefully that breathes some life into her character. Not sure who's going to be the face there, though.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Mar 15, 2019 20:19:51 GMT -5
Alexa should go from a Liam Gallagher to Noel Gallagher gimmick, from detestable obnoxious douchebag to lovable obnoxious douchebag
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