6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (June 21)

1. Back To The Cocoon

Nikki Cross 2021
WWE

This has got to be a joke, right?

On Monday night, Nikki Cross unveiled a new persona, new outfit and new music. All of it was total trash.

Cross talked about how her “wins” the past few weeks had sparked something in her, and she was embracing this energy by suddenly donning a blue mask and blue-and-yellow tights, with a cape, all butterfly-themed. It was, quite possibly, the worst repackaging we’ve seen in a good while.

Even Corey Graves put it bluntly: “This is a bit much, don’t you think?”

The writers have to be thinking that with live crowds coming back, Nikki could be a kiddie favorite, right? But seriously, this is so beyond childish that it deserves to be ridiculed. Unfortunately, it only hurts Cross, not the idiots who came up with the idea.

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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 fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.