4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (July 1)
3. The Power Struggle That’s Going Nowhere
...this.
This guy was a big fan of Sonya Deville's before she turned into Adam Pearce's assistant. Her heel run in the summer of 2020 was a weekly highlight on SmackDown, but WWE followed it up with a crappy end to the Mandy Rose feud and then turned her into Pearce's gopher.
The pain lingers, because Deville is being cast as the one willing to put her neck on the line by questioning Adam's inconsistencies. The problem? Well, it's hardly like Pearce and Sonya are going to have a match at SummerSlam, or something, is it? There's no satisfying way to end this.
Most fans would probs like WWE to move on from a soft General Manager post-Pearce, at least for a while. Replacing him with Deville cuts her out of the regular women's conversation and is more of the same heel authority figure bullsh*t everyone has seen one million times before.