What to do with Raquel and crowd reactions

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

She's been an instant ignore for me since she was in NXT and nothing has changed since. Just flat out awful in all aspects.

[Totorob101]

It's not just her but unless you are an anti hero, most faces suck especially in the women's division. People love the bad girls because they ooze personality and strength,Raquel can be a great heel but turning her bad means he heel side will be stacked with monster heels with Nia, Rhea, Piper etc while with most of the faces bar a few are not over and have no character. Heel turns seem the only way to save careers I guess.

[Ben Wyatt]

She seems like a great person, but she's just not very good and the roster is too stacked to keep on trying to make her a singles star

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

So after about 60 or so votes, seems like the general consensus is there are middling degrees of being a fan or not. It is the pure "don't care" options that push it towards what I think we can sum Raquel up as, either someone that is just there or could be good/okay but the gimmick/lack of gimmick absolutely sucks. Which I agree with.

We'll have to see how the next few weeks go but if the crowd has no sympathy now, it really might be time for a heel turn or some clear additions to her character. I can't remember the NXT crowd reactions but I could have sworn we had some similar stuff back when she was champ there.

[mistery]

Feb 25, 2024 13:46:49 GMT -5 UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm said:

So after about 60 or so votes, seems like the general consensus is there are middling degrees of being a fan or not. It is the pure "don't care" options that push it towards what I think we can sum Raquel up as, either someone that is just there or could be good/okay but the gimmick/lack of gimmick absolutely sucks. Which I agree with.

We'll have to see how the next few weeks go but if the crowd has no sympathy now, it really might be time for a heel turn or some clear additions to her character. I can't remember the NXT crowd reactions but I could have sworn we had some similar stuff back when she was champ there.

WWE absolutely ignored crowd reactions when it came to Raquel in NXT. I mentioned it earlier, but it was one of the key reasons why Black and Gold started failing.

Raquel winning the title from Iyo was absolutely a bad idea in hindsight as the audience hated it. Even more when they had Rhea and Bianca join her on the very next NXT, and then WWE acted like she saved the division from a reign of terror from a deeply unpopular champion (Iyo), and tried to portray her star power on the same level as Rhea and Bianca were at the time. It didn't work, and all it did was drive off anyone who liked Iyo (which was a not insignificant chunk of fans), where ratings indicated that over the next couple of months, with NXT setting lower and lower viewership numbers.

And then WWE made the final and most fatal mistake of the entire thing, which was booking Raquel as the babyface in the feud against Dakota Kai, going as far to dub over boos when Dakota turned on her, despite there being footage from fans at the event cheering Dakota beating up Raquel. They then had Raquel completely manhandle Dakota through the entire feud, and Dakota never looked good even once during that time.

Meanwhile you had Triple H doing interviews and talking about how Raquel is the modern day Chyna, and how she's a huge star.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Feb 25, 2024 14:40:52 GMT -5 mistery said:

Feb 25, 2024 13:46:49 GMT -5 UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm said:

So after about 60 or so votes, seems like the general consensus is there are middling degrees of being a fan or not. It is the pure "don't care" options that push it towards what I think we can sum Raquel up as, either someone that is just there or could be good/okay but the gimmick/lack of gimmick absolutely sucks. Which I agree with.

We'll have to see how the next few weeks go but if the crowd has no sympathy now, it really might be time for a heel turn or some clear additions to her character. I can't remember the NXT crowd reactions but I could have sworn we had some similar stuff back when she was champ there.

WWE absolutely ignored crowd reactions when it came to Raquel in NXT. I mentioned it earlier, but it was one of the key reasons why Black and Gold started failing.

Raquel winning the title from Iyo was absolutely a bad idea in hindsight as the audience hated it. Even more when they had Rhea and Bianca join her on the very next NXT, and then WWE acted like she saved the division from a reign of terror from a deeply unpopular champion (Iyo), and tried to portray her star power on the same level as Rhea and Bianca were at the time. It didn't work, and all it did was drive off anyone who liked Iyo (which was a not insignificant chunk of fans), where ratings indicated that over the next couple of months, with NXT setting lower and lower viewership numbers.

And then WWE made the final and most fatal mistake of the entire thing, which was booking Raquel as the babyface in the feud against Dakota Kai, going as far to dub over boos when Dakota turned on her, despite there being footage from fans at the event cheering Dakota beating up Raquel. They then had Raquel completely manhandle Dakota through the entire feud, and Dakota never looked good even once during that time.

Meanwhile you had Triple H doing interviews and talking about how Raquel is the modern day Chyna, and how she's a huge star.

Being completely fair that probably wasn't all on Raquel, and was likely just as much or more on the fact that at the same time they put the NXT title on Kross and the audience had just as little if not less interest in watching him.

[simplydurhamcalling]

She has potential but there's no character/charisma on show right now.

It was pretty uncomfortable hearing that reaction after noticing she had no make up on (I think) and I assumed therefore her condition had flared up. Not blaming the crowd as I doubt most knew but she deserved a good reaction for that.

[A Little Doo Doo]

Make her Tiffy's bodyguard. Imagine her standing in background in her Tiffy Time shirt, pointing to her wrist and smiling.

[darbus alan]

I don't think it's really fair to blame rating woes on a single wrestler or tag-team. Yeah, Raquel's reign as NXT Champ sucked, but she was far from the only blech part of the show during that time.

[A Little Doo Doo]

Feb 25, 2024 18:46:58 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

I don't think it's really fair to blame rating woes on a single wrestler or tag-team. Yeah, Raquel's reign as NXT Champ sucked, but she was far from the only blech part of the show during that time.

Unless it's Gallus.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

Feb 25, 2024 18:46:58 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

I don't think it's really fair to blame rating woes on a single wrestler or tag-team. Yeah, Raquel's reign as NXT Champ sucked, but she was far from the only blech part of the show during that time.

Yeah people were absolutely not having her as NXT champ but the entire show save a few bits and pieces were dreadful at the time

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

Feb 25, 2024 18:42:38 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

Make her Tiffy's bodyguard. Imagine her standing in background in her Tiffy Time shirt, pointing to her wrist and smiling.

*enters hell in a cell with tiffy when they inevitably feud*

*raquel smiles entering the cell with a barbed wire bat*

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Feb 25, 2024 18:46:58 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

I don't think it's really fair to blame rating woes on a single wrestler or tag-team. Yeah, Raquel's reign as NXT Champ sucked, but she was far from the only blech part of the show during that time.

There is an easy correlation to draw that when the title went to Raquel and they basically shoved IYO off the cliff and claimed Raquel as some saviour the very next show doing that bullshit 3 title promo with her , Bianca and Rhea as quickly possible it really started the ball rolling down hill for that iteration of NXT.

IYO was only second to Finn at the time being the most consistent draw for the brand and all her segments/matches were always upticking and considering this was against AEW just starting out who were according to majority at the time slaughtering NXT in every possible demographic that was huge sign of her abiltity to keep people watching anything she was doing and no surprise that Dmg Cntrl segments just happen to be second only to Bloodline stuff has been the most consistently watched stuff on SD for months and when they are not around they are the highest peak segment on the show keeping the overall ratings steady if nothing else.

Raquel may not deserve the whole blame but that choice basically started the bleeding that would only get worse.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

She comes to the ring grinning and gladhanding like she's running for office. She's one step away from kissing babies.

[J is Justice]

Raquel should keep everything about her character right now, but she's just a heel instead of a face. Imagine her beating down Becky with a huge smile.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

Feb 26, 2024 15:49:30 GMT -5 J is Justice said:

Raquel should keep everything about her character right now, but she's just a heel instead of a face. Imagine her beating down Becky with a huge smile.

just walking around face covered in blood going " "