A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Nov 27, 2023 14:32:24 GMT -5
Rhea's great but her reign has been awful. She spends maybe 75% of the time interacting with the men instead of her division.
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Post by clc on Nov 27, 2023 14:33:20 GMT -5
Another option, but would be harder now, would have been Rhea/Bianca. They teased it VERY briefly during Bianca's title run, and it was a semi-surprise to some when after Rhea won the Rumble she went for Charlotte instead (though good on screen reasoning). I hated that! Once Rhea picked Charlotte it completely spoiled the results of Wrestlemania. Also, Rhea's on-screen reasoning was flimsy becasue it required them to memory-hole that Rhea Ripley won the RAW championship the prior Wrestlemania. Beating Charlotte for the Smackdown title is a huge achievement. Beating Asuka for the Raw title...who cares!
Rhea vs Bianca was the more obvious match; with Charlotte vs Asuka fitting the "Revenge on Charlotte" story much better than Rhea. Charlotte derailed Asuka way harder and way more times than she did Rhea. As soon as Rhea picked Charlotte it tipped off that this was only because they wanted Bianca to win at Mania.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Nov 27, 2023 14:39:30 GMT -5
Another option, but would be harder now, would have been Rhea/Bianca. They teased it VERY briefly during Bianca's title run, and it was a semi-surprise to some when after Rhea won the Rumble she went for Charlotte instead (though good on screen reasoning). I hated that! Once Rhea picked Charlotte it completely spoiled the results of Wrestlemania. Also, Rhea's on-screen reasoning was flimsy becasue it required them to memory-hole that Rhea Ripley won the RAW championship the prior Wrestlemania. Beating Charlotte for the Smackdown title is a huge achievement. Beating Asuka for the Raw title...who cares! Rhea vs Bianca was the more obvious match; with Charlotte vs Asuka fitting the "Revenge on Charlotte" story much better than Rhea. Charlotte derailed Asuka way harder and way more times than she did Rhea. As soon as Rhea picked Charlotte it tipped off that this was only because they wanted Bianca to win at Mania.
Eh, being fair, even after Rhea beat Asuka it was Charlotte who took the belt from her and that entire feud was just Charlotte beating her ass in every single encounter.
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Post by theironyuppie on Nov 27, 2023 19:13:28 GMT -5
Rhea's great but her reign has been awful. She spends maybe 75% of the time interacting with the men instead of her division.
She's in a unique role that has helped make her a big star and offered a lot of opportunities (including interactions with most of the company's top male stars and segments with people like Heyman), but has also created booking challenges. I think on the whole they've done a better job with the balance between her JD stories and her singles stories after she came back from getting 'injured' by Nia, but there were absolutely times before then when the singles stories got barely any attention.
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