5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (June 10)

2. Ronda Rousey = Unlikeable Babyface

Ronda Rousey Shotzi
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WWE wants to position Ronda Rousey as a likeable-but dominating SmackDown Women's Champion. She's supposed to be affable and classy, but then turn into a fire-breathing bad ass at the flick of a switch. Unfortunately, Ronda is way out of her element and the presentation is all over the shop.

She isn't likeable in the slightest, and her promos often come across as the strangest mix of shaky and arrogant on the roster. The way Rousey laughed off Shotzi's challenge on Friday was also heel 101 sh*t; that's the kind of thing fans would expect to see from Roman Reigns.

Meh.

Time for some brutal honesty that WWE's writers won't want to hear: Ronda's title reign is off to a rotten start. They blatantly didn't have a plan for her post-Charlotte Flair, and it shows. She's batting off secondary challengers and acting like the entire women's division is beneath her.

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