Also the thread is meant to be jokey and all that, cool
I will continue to say putting the title on her was the right move. She had all the momentum and progression and it made the most sense. It was just a rare drop of the ball by HHH with the way he did her and Kross
This. Her ring-work is dope. She’s a rockin’ powerhouse. The writers/producers/whoever dropped the ball by completely failing to even try character traits once she got the title.
Also the thread is meant to be jokey and all that, cool
I will continue to say putting the title on her was the right move. She had all the momentum and progression and it made the most sense. It was just a rare drop of the ball by HHH with the way he did her and Kross
Frankly, yeah. Io needed to lose the title before she got boring, and Raquel was the right choice at the time, probably.
They have basically nothing prepared for her, bogging her down with the tag division, and the botched Dakota Kai feud that just kind of petered out. She's sort of a minor version of Warrior in that way, where the title change made sense, but they completely fell flat on the follow up.
Also the thread is meant to be jokey and all that, cool
I will continue to say putting the title on her was the right move. She had all the momentum and progression and it made the most sense. It was just a rare drop of the ball by HHH with the way he did her and Kross
Frankly, yeah. Io needed to lose the title before she got boring, and Raquel was the right choice at the time, probably.
They have basically nothing prepared for her, bogging her down with the tag division, and the botched Dakota Kai feud that just kind of petered out. She's sort of a minor version of Warrior in that way, where the title change made sense, but they completely fell flat on the follow up.
I think a lot of it was just bad timing, and not necessarily representative of how she'll do on the main roster one day. It also didn't help that some of her possible feuds as champ (including Shotzi) got called up to the main roster, and then she ended up being a face. This was also compounded by the decision to have her selling pretty heavily for much smaller women rather than looking as dominant as she was presented in the several months before she won the title.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Nov 5, 2021 13:52:26 GMT -5
I was pretty much completely turned off of Raquel when basically the entire Takeover she won the title on was swamped in constant, "Raquel is the future, she is a star, she's the best," chatter throughout. They just laid it so thick it made me reflexively sick of her.
Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Nov 5, 2021 16:22:18 GMT -5
I think if they kept her as a dominant heel champion it could've worked. Thing is though for that to work you need a lot of good babyfaces to work with and she didn't. So they turned her face and the problem with that is it's hard feel sorry for or buy a face selling for long stretches when all her opponents are way smaller. Dakota getting cheered over her despite Raquel being the face I think was when it became clear that her run was a failure and that it was time to try something else.
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