10 WWE Stars Who Desperately Need New Gimmicks

9. Nikki Cross

Nikki Cross
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A former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion, Nikki Cross is one of a rare breed; a professional wrestler who hasn’t completely floundered on the main roster. Granted, she hasn’t exactly set the world alight, but an argument can be made that her run on the main roster has been more or at least as impressive as her tenure in NXT.

This has come at the expense of anything approaching a character. In NXT Cross was a livewire, a chaotic animal of a performer that somehow managed to be the most insane member of a group called Sanity (okay, SAnitY). She didn’t stop moving for a second, and her wild-eyed glare gained her an army of fans spanning genders and generations. She wasn’t going to main event WrestleMania, but she was an important cog in the machine.

On the main roster, the only personality trait of Nikki Cross is that she ‘is friends with Alexa Bliss’. The pairing will inevitably split up — all teams do — with Bliss the more likely of the two to do the deed. Will Cross then fade into obscurity as a nothing character, or revert back to her chaotic past? The change in personality needs to come soon for the Scot.

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