10 Wrestlers WWE Don't Know What To Do With

7. Mickie James

Alexa Bliss Mickie James
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Raw's creative brain trust need to make up their minds on whether or not Mickie James is a bullying Alexa Bliss hanger-on or a happy, high-fiving babyface pro. She's played both, erratically, across WWE's gamut of live events and TV shows for too long.

They cannot have it both ways.

Attend company house shows and prepare to see Mickie appear as a fun-loving, respectful veteran early in the card and then a Bliss sympathiser later. It's jarring, and it's a situation made even worse by the fact James is often posted missing from Alexa's side on television. It's like the writers occasionally forget the pair are on-screen buddies.

Those sporadic tag-team gushing promos WWE book Bliss and Mickie to do helps neither woman. Sure, a cowardly heel like Alexa would have backup, but that should be the case permanently. Seeing James dip and dive out of appearances makes it hard to care when she does show up.

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