10 WWE Wrestlers Vince McMahon Loves (But The Internet Hates)
5. Lacey Evans
There are four main ways that a woman can get over in Vince's eyes. The least of these is talent between the ropes, with even stars like Becky Lynch and Asuka needing something extra to bump them up the card. Lacey Evans represents the second way a woman can get over in Vince's eyes. She's tall and blonde. There you go.
This isn't to say that Lacey is a bad wrestler. Much like Corbin, she's limited but can put on a good match against even a half-decent partner and her bombshell pinup gimmick has so much promise as a heel.
But the affectations of this gimmick turned her into a caricature too early. When Lacey debuted she walked down to the ring and... then she walked back away from it. This writer had to check his feed to see if it had somehow glitched and skipped over a match. It hadn't, and Lacey kept doing that.
For fans tuning in for wrestling, that character taking precedence over those who had in-ring charisma in spades felt like a step back towards the Divas era. And that's something even Lacey would find...
Well, just nasty.