10 Signs WWE’s Women’s Revolution Is Dead
7. NXT 2.0’s Obsession With Breasts
Many professional wrestlers, men and women, choose to perform in what amounts to little more than underwear. Yet, somehow, Toxic Attraction contrive to appear scantily clad even by comparison to other wrestlers. The heel faction’s entire gimmick is that they are sexy but bad news, presumably because attractive women are supposed to be fun to look at but not to be trusted? Is that it, Bruce?
The current situation for 2.0’s men isn’t exactly enviable, with green workers forced into ill-fitting and nonsensical occupational gimmicks, but at least shots aren’t explicitly framed to encourage the viewer to admire their c*cks. Women are literally given the Andre The Giant camera angle to make their boobs look more impressive.
Writing for this very website in 2019, your writer opined:-
“Of course, times have changed, and we won’t be seeing a return to Miss Kitty exposing her breasts or Jerry ‘The King’ Lawyer losing his mind at the sight of bikini busting “puppies”. In 2019, WWE will have to be a bit more subtle than that.”
It’s almost charming really, the naivety.
No, NXT 2.0 isn’t actively exposing nipples or calling “The King” in to commentate, but the brand isn’t exactly subtle in its attempts to appeal to the Lawler deep within all of us. NXT 2.0, with its bright colour palette and music by Wale, is designed to appeal to a younger audience but never has it been more apparent that NXT is run by ageing men.