8 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Evolution

3. Becky Is Not The Heel

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Memo to WWE: Don’t make the same mistakes you make all the time with trying to tell the fans who’s the face and who’s the heel. You can nudge and coax, but if an entire arena is telling you that you’re wrong, then change your preconceived notions.

In this case, Becky Lynch is supposed to be the villainess against Charlotte Flair. However (and thankfully), she won the SmackDown Women’s Championship fairly and would retain it fairly Sunday night. She supposedly is the heel because she attacked Charlotte a while back and has taken cheap shots at her regularly. But fans love Lynch and have rallied to the Irish Lass Kicker.

Lynch isn’t wrestling royalty, as Michael Cole noted, which would make her the common person’s wrestler. But that hasn’t stopped the writers and announcers from pushing the narrative that Becky is the sniveling heel (she begged off of Charlotte after she made a superwoman comeback) while Flair is the fan favorite.

WWE needs to figure this out, as they have an organic babyface who they want to be booed. Sounds familiar, but in reverse, doesn’t it?

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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.