Ever since the late 90s, WWE has a long, bizarre history of hiring women only for their looks. Quite a few were offered contracts before ever competing in a single match. In the rare instance, it worked out really well like Trish Stratus. Other times, it worked out okay like a Kelly Kelly, and sometimes, you just can't figure out what Vince McMahon was thinking. While Eva Marie played soccer in college, she doesn't seem to have an athletic bone in her body. Shouldn't that be a qualification to landing a job in wrestling? Is she pretty? Absolutely? Can she cut a promo? Absolutely not. Her voice is monotone, and lacking any sort of passion. Can she wrestle in the ring? All history so far says not even close. While she's been trained by Brian Kendrick over the past few months, you have to wonder why all the time and money is being spent on her at all. While questionable hires like JoJo and Kelly Kelly showed little in-ring potential, they were under 20 when signed. Eva came in at 28, which is awfully old for wrestling in a match for the first time. So despite the Divas division having a lot of interesting women on the main roster and in NXT, she was brought in to star on Total Divas. Why? Is it just the red hair? It can't be. Can it?
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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