We all know Bayley is one of the best current wrestlers and a fan favorite but my god she needs to shut up, that girl cant cut a promo to save her live plus how many times we are going to hear the same damn thing "when i was a little kid all i wanted was to be a wrestler more than anything, i love wrestling...blah blah blah" ENOUGH those promos are getting more atrocious every week.
this is something that blows my mind. there used to be a time where if your weak point was cutting promos, well, they wouldn't fucking send you out to cut a promo. they'd give you a manager...have you do recorded stuff...have you do really short snippets in the back.... they wouldn't expose you like they force so many wrestlers to do today.
all those stupid wrestling reality shows, that exposed the business, really got in the heads of everyone.
Bayley can go in the ring, she has good charisma for her character, and getting her over is a piece of cake... why force her to go out in the middle of the ring by herself to cut a lengthy promo?
She may not be the best talker, but to be honest I don't think she needs to be, even making mistakes or shiting on about random things or messing up can be pulled off by her because of that lovable regular "one of the fans" thing she has going on, she can just laugh it off and say she's excited, they aren't awkward moments
Sasha on the other hand, has a great character but her promos and interviews etc are desperately bad and cannot back up that tough legit boss character at all, it's a shame.
It's not the booking she's just a weak performer. She's always been average on the mic. The best mic workers both div currently is Bliss and Charlotte. Bliss is by the far the best promo woman in WWE ATM.
I personally think Alexa Bliss has the best mic skills out of the entire Women's Division (Raw/SD Live/NXT). She consistently delivers every time for a promo and not to mention the best facial expressions as well. :chlol
I also think Charlotte knows how to work a crowd in order to DESPISE her.
Wait, you mean months of being told that Sasha Banks was a female hybrid of Eddie Guerrero and HBK and that Bayley was the female hybrid of Cena and Hogan was all bullshit? Color me surprised.
I think it's likely that she doesn't worry about sounding cool and making everything sound smooth and confident, because those aren't character traits of hers.
As bad as her delivery is, she has to keep doing it or she won't get better. You don't just practice in front of a mirror and expect that to translate to talking in a ring with thousands of people watching you.
Kinda have to see the valley through the trees in this scenario, people....
She does enough to get her point across, and has the crowed behind her. The latter part of her promo wasn't so bad. I think if WWE wasn't so scripted she could make her character work a lot better on the mic, as is I think she does enough to make her character believable with the promo work she is given.
Bayley is best when scripted, her character is defined by the slight awkwardness in her promo delivery, without that she's just a shouter, like so many other women on the roster.
Does it build sympathy? maybe, it depends whether you think she is entitled, if you don't, then Bayley runs out of material pretty fast.
Lol, Bayley, living the dream, but putting it down to Mick Foley and not Dusty Rhodes.
It also works because she is clearly the duckling, and Charlotte the swan, but if she keeps winning, the naïve entitled Bayley will soon run its course.
I honestly think she does it on purpose. She's supposed to be relatable and an everyman character and what's more relatable than getting nervous/excited and fumbling your words when public speaking? She always reacts to the fluffs really fast and laughs them off which is what makes me think she's doing it on purpose. Either way, I think she's a lot like Bryan in that she doesn't really need to be all that great, she just connects with the crowd and they're into her stuff. Say what you want about the segment but the crowd were hot for it, she had me believing that she'd give it back too. To deny she has charisma is dumb when so many of the audience connect with her.
She's one of the very few truly likable pure babyfaces on the roster and she's still very over despite being put in the back burner for some months, and you're telling her to shut up and stop communicating with the fans, essentially taking away a big part of what makes people like her, just because she's not one of your favorites? Oh, not strange, since apparently Bayley's target audience doesn't include immature, angsty teens so...
And it doesn't matter if she sucks on the mic or she cuts promos that way on purpose. The crowd dig it as always, and one could even argue they wouldn't do as much the other way around. She's just Bayley, and being Bayley is perfectly fine. Great, in fact.
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