Why The Alexa Bliss Character Is WWE's Worst Current Creation
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To everybody reading these words, thank you.
Thank you for clicking this link. Thank you for still having enough investigative interest in WWE to see this article's title and deem this specific topic worthy of some long form discussion. And thank you for considering (correctly, of course) that there might be more to it than just the thumbnail staring back at you, because f*cking hell it only takes about a second of looking at Alexa Bliss in this gimmick to assume the question posed by the title has already been answered.
Alexa Bliss is great.
Sometimes even better than great. Alexa Bliss was (and still is, really, in spite of all of this) a star. Not just a WWE Superstar - itself a term bastardised over the last two decades with so few emerging from a system broken by a monopoly - but a Star. "Wrong way down a one way street"-sized hitmaker. The sort of multi-skilled performer WWE are very occasionally blessed with, before the talent realises that other industries are kinder to the mind, the body and the bank balance.
All of that needs mentioning now (and often), if only to draw the clearest of distinctions between Bliss and the warped character she is gamely trying to get over here in the almost post-pandemic world of 2021.
She's a star, she's a better-than-many pro wrestler in the contemporary WWE vein, and overspills with the intangibles that should see her pushed as such. Such is the absolute state of Monday Night Raw that it's impossible to tell if WWE even knows this or not.
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