4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Results & Review - 23 Oct)

5. Nikki Cross’ 37th Reinvention

Nikki Cross
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Are there any fans out there who were enraptured by Nikki Cross’ latest character change/mood swing?

It’s just so damn hard to watch such a talented wrestler go out there and just play a different variety of “crazy” and expect fans to get behind the character. This time, the normally frenetic Cross walked slowly out to the ring like a zombie, stood on the apron during her tag match with Natalya against Chelsea Green & Piper Niven, and then climbed down from the apron after two minutes of unblinking terror and walked to the back.

The end.

Why is she an emotionless zombie? Even if fans get an answer will anyone actually care and get invested in her? They’ve done this a half-dozen times with Nikki, having her migrate between psycho, childlike babyface, superhero, super-villain, crazed heel, friendless loner, and now a zombie.

And for these latest iterations? Fans have barely reacted. So it’s clearly not working, and yet WWE thinks just giving Cross a wild mood swing will fix things.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.