8 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Nov 6)
Downs...
3. Here Come The Goofballs
This won't be a popular stance, but your writer is hoping last night's Nikki Cross appearance was a cameo (a la Pete Dunne on Raw last year) rather than a full-time promotion.
Acts like Cross and the rest of Sanity shatter the suspension of disbelief. They're literally unbelievable, because it's impossible to believe in anything about them, particularly in this 'reality' era. It'd fly in the Attitude Era, when whacky gimmicks were the norm, but their crazed, grimy bullsh*t doesn't hit the mark in 2018, and it's so obviously false that the whole point of professional wrestling is undermined in the process.
Cross got a UK pop, and her "I'll play with you, Becky" line wasn't quite as terrible as the "I knowwwwww!" gibberish that ran NXT's main event scene into the ground. Still, outdated characters like hers belong in the past. The performer is talented and doesn't get enough credit for diving into this stupid gimmick head-first, but she (and the rest of Sanity) deserves better than this.