WWE's Kelly Kelly: How It Started Vs How It Ended
That's what the not-yet-20 Kelly Kelly was on her first day. An "exhibitionist". Somebody who enjoyed taking her clothes off just because.
If this doesn't paint the nicest picture of WWE at the time, it looks like the Mona f*cking Lisa next to the visual of Vince McMahon himself apparently being the one to teach her how to do it to his liking. Perhaps that's where Austin Theory is going wrong trying to win his love in 2022? He goes out there and whips his t*ts out. but the Chairman now needs multiple cameras and a desk just to get through a segment - he can no longer shake himself about a bit just to get exactly what he's looking for from his latest starlet.
As has often been the case, the performer gradually broke through occasionally because of but often in spite of the promoter's weird whims. Never the most polished in the ring, she was at very least passable when that standard was enough and WWE was quite frankly, pal, lucky to have it.
An endlessly sympathetic babyface in storylines, her Day One experience perhaps gave her method experience of how to really eat sh*t, and what a useful tool it served for the remainder of a run that - to her immense credit - spanned six years.
By 2017, she was only 30 and already on the nostalgic comebacks call-sheet. Which brings the whole story back to one of the only memorable moments of a sludge-bucket Royal Rumble...
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