For every comment that Nikki Bella has vastly improved her ringwork, there should be a follow-up question: Is Nikki better than Natalya? Paige? Naomi? Most of the NXT womens roster? Thats not meant to demean Nikki. Its great that she takes more pride in her performance, but its not like shes become one of the better wrestlers on the roster. Shes just become more passable. But the real problem here is how the Bellas have been booked, switching almost weekly between faces and heels. If they had been consistently booked as heels, then Nikkis reign would be a little more bearable. Instead, the twins act seems to be more about keeping them at the top of the division rather than building convincing characters for fans to get invested in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ2NF3asSaY What we have is a Divas champ and her sister who fans dont know week to week whether they should boo or cheer. This also doesnt help their opponents, and thus the entire division suffers.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
