Why The Alexa Bliss Character Is WWE's Worst Current Creation

Alexa Bliss managed to get over on NXT, and then on SmackDown, and then on Raw in spite of the fact that most of the conversation around women's wrestling at the time centred around the pioneering exploits of the Four Horsewomen.

Bliss connected every time, building an extremely tight bond with her core fanbase that have since been asked to watch and support the sh*t she's doing now instead of resembling a real human being and maybe trying to win titles once in a while. She's a big deal, and she'd be even bigger if she wasn't stuck playing on the swings and talking to a doll as part of the World Wrestling Entertainment experience.

Does the company know this?

Is this actually a case of something going to plan rather than completely off the rails? Was this identified in Bliss upon first calling her up from NXT in 2016? Was there a note on the whiteboard in the writers room to gradually chip away at her megastar aura with a persona so preposterously p*ss poor that it killed any momentum she could ever hope to build in her future?

No, no, no and no. To think any of that true, it would require a flawed belief that Vince McMahon and his inner circle can plot out something longterm and see it through. Which, as evidenced every Monday (and far more Fridays than some are perhaps willing to admit...) is very clearly not the case.

One day, the former Women's Champion will be glad of your average wrestling fan's notoriously long memory. One day, hopefully sooner rather than later, she'll be grateful that audiences can and will forgive rancid booking of people that they're loyal to. Because one day, Alexa Bliss won't be The Fiend anymore.

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