5. Have Consistency With The Diva Characters
This one goes back to the fans emotional investment again. Lets take my compatriot Paige as an example here. She has been on the main roster for 20 months. She started as a babyface, dethroning AJ Lee on her first night on the Raw after WrestleMania XXX. She turned heel on Alicia Fox six months later, before turning face again just two months later, rescuing Natalya from an attack by Nikki Bella. Five months after that, she saved Nikki Bella from an attack by Naomi and Tamina, before attacking Nikki herself. Then this summer, she allied herself with Charlotte and Becky Lynch in Team PCB. This unit then seemingly broke up a mere two months after forming when Paige turned heel again with an embittered promo against Charlotte and her father, Ric Flair. However, Team PCB still appeared together on a number of shows, including the live Network special from Madison Square Garden, where Paige then once again turned on her partners, which only served to make Charlotte, the Divas Champion no less, and Becky seem utterly gullible. In recent weeks, Charlotte has turned into a cocky heel and Paige seems to have gone back to being a face again. The Bellas have also flip-flopped somewhat between face and heel and quite frankly, nobody seems to have a consistent character from one month to the next. If fans dont know where they stand with people, then they will cease to react one way or another. My own personal experience of listening to fans comments when I attended WWEs house show at the Brighton Centre was that many fans, particularly the younger ones, had little to no interest in the Divas division, which is such a huge shame because the athletes in that division are immensely talented and deserve to be given a proper spotlight to shine under. Compare this to the NXT womens division, and its like chalk and cheese. Why? Because the characters are more consistent and therefore when someone does turn heel, like Emma for example, it means something and the fans respond to it. In 2016, the WWE needs to give the female characters (including Stephanie McMahon) some consistency as faces or heels and run with it.
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