7 Reasons Eva Marie Should Be WWE SmackDown's First Women's Champion

No, I’m not trolling, I’m dead serious. Eva Marie should absolutely be the inaugural SmackDown women’s champion. Whenever the new title is debuted – and reports are it will be sometime in the fall – the best thing WWE could do for the blue brand would be to put the belt on Ms. #AllRedEverything. Her current “work” on Tuesdays has been some of the most entertaining stuff done by any of the females on the roster and she hasn’t had to log one second of ring time to do it.

Look at it like this: One of the best-drawing midcard title reigns of all-time is The Honky Tonk Man’s run as Intercontinental champion, and it wasn’t because he was churning out five star classics on the house show circuit. He was an enormous tool that the entire audience was united in their distaste for and they shelled out their hard-earned money in hopes of seeing him get his wannabe-Elvis *ss kicked all over the arena.

Eva Marie has the chance to be this generation’s Honky Tonk Woman. Give her the ball and let her run (away) with it. I’m not suggesting she’s ever going to be a great worker; she might not ever become little more than competent. But she’s got a look and character that equals money, which is what the business is about.

Here’s why Eva Marie should be first SmackDown women’s champion.

If there’s one thing WWE doesn’t have enough of it’s pure heels who generate massive heat While there are obviously plenty of characters on the roster who are bad guys and girls by definition, but very few of them are able to elicit passionate responses of hatred when they appear before audiences.

The best heels in the entire company – Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens – have become so great at their jobs that it’s an uphill battle every night to keep the fans from turning them babyface. Except for The Miz. Everyone is united in their hatred of Miz, and that’s a testament to the quality of his work. On the women’s side, Charlotte has actually done a fair job of getting herself over on the dark side, especially once she broke away from her father and stepped out of his impossible shadow.

Eva Marie, however, is on a whole different level of heel. From the moment she began appearing on NXT Ms. #AllRedEverything has drawn some of the most voracious negative responses in the entire company. Fans despise everything about her, and it’s rare that a female wrestler is able to garner that much heat with audiences.

When you take into account that her character has done so without most of the usual tropes WWE creative uses for females and has instead turned into the ultimate diva we’re all begging to see lose, that’s a spectacular feat. There hasn’t been a woman with this much heat in a WWE ring other than Stephanie McMahon. The promotion needs to capitalize on that.