5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (August 3)
3. Alicia Fox: Hard As Nails
Ronda Rousey is a real combat sports trailblazer. She is a genuine Championship-calibre athlete. She is, to quote Good Ol' Horny On Main JR, quicker than a hiccup. Everything she does looks devastatingly detonative. She is a motherf*cking meteorite of a sports entertainer, and she has demonstrated this over the course of just two televised matches: one in which she carried a non-wrestler to an improbably very good match, and one against Stephanie McMahon.
Alicia Fox is a hangover from the dismal Divas era with one exception to her rule-proving status as a mediocre performer: a quite gorgeous northern lights suplex. Elsewhere, if you can remember one solid minute of any of her matches, you're either Cameron, or you're a f*cking liar.
So, to book the first meeting between the two acts, WWE booked an angle in which Fox both outsmarted and outmuscled Ronda Rousey in the sort of sentence, four months ago, only the most cynical SquaredCircle poster would have written. You could create a terrible WWE storyline bot on Twitter, and it still wouldn't have come up with anything as dumb as that.
"Fox is one of the most deceptively powerful women on the entire roster," said Corey Graves, somehow contriving to out-f*ckwit Jonathan Coachman. No. She isn't. WWE is just presenting her as such, against all established continuity, because it is convenient this week. How hard is it to book a showdown in which Fox lays a hand on Ronda, to no effect, before running away in terror, before Kurt Angle teaches her a lesson or some sh*t?
Not as hard as Alicia Fox, that's for sure. This week.