10 WWE Joke Pushes That Stopped Being Funny

8. Alicia Fox

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No, the joke 'push' doesn't refer to Alicia Fox's entire career, which continues to this day despite a decade of dull duds and demeaning duties that would have pushed most others as far away from the organisation as humanly possible.

This particularly pitiful spell of her career pre-dated the 'Women's Evolution' she snuck in on by a full year, with only Paige, AJ Lee (and generously, Kaitlyn and The Bella Twins) carrying the load for a 'Divas' league long on life support at the time.

Yet another take on a browbeaten trope, Fox' "crazy" character was bizarrely one that stuck enough to get her her first ever t-shirt in 2017, but the origins of the gimmick came from her acting like an infuriating pillock every single week. She slung drinks on herself, stole the ostentatious headgear of JBL and Jerry Lawler on commentary and screeched her way through intelligible promos that apparently denoted that she'd gone off the deep end.

It was excruciating to watch, but with little care for her character and zero longterm creative direction, the company and the performer herself just went all in on it anyway. A hiatus later that year parked the storyline without explanation, but few mourned its departure.

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