When she first got on SDL after the brand split she was so freaking good, you could see she had drive and fire to get to the top of the division. She was easily the standout after the split in that womens division. But after she became champion weeks go by and it was like she just lost her drive to be the best in the division, its like shes just stopped trying almost and got comfortable.
I just wanna see that version of Alexa after the brand split again, the Alexa that had something to prove and a drive to be the absolute best in the division. I'm tired of this comfortable complacent Alexa who's tired of trying and just coasting on what shes done so far.
This is the problem with pushing people too soon. Something definitely feels different about her, it feels like Alexa isn't trying to get heat anymore.
Yep, she had drive and desire to be the best and so they handed her everything right off the bat and she got complacent afterwards like "oh i'm already at the top? oh good i can stop trying now and relax".
When she first got on SDL after the brand split she was so freaking good, you could see she had drive and fire to get to the top of the division. She was easily the standout after the split in that womens division. But after she became champion weeks go by and it was like she just lost her drive to be the best in the division, its like shes just stopped trying almost and got comfortable.
I just wanna see that version of Alexa after the brand split again, the Alexa that had something to prove and a drive to be the absolute best in the division. I'm tired of this comfortable complacent Alexa who's tired of trying and just coasting on what shes done so far.
Shes not really any worse now, she was always like this. Decent talent, but nothing spectacular and extremely overrated by the online fanboys who only care about looks.
Now the "new toy" effect is wearing off and people see she isn't that great at all, and she never was to begin with.
Shes not really any worse now, she was always like this. Decent talent, but nothing spectacular and extremely overrated by the online fanboys who only care about looks.
Now the "new toy" effect is wearing off and people see she isn't that great at all, and she never was to begin with.
This is backlash 101. Happens to tons of people.
Ambrose, Sasha, Balor, Roman, list goes on.
The more someone is pushed the more people pay attention to their strengths and weaknesses.
If Alexa was in Carmella's spot, less people would care about her in-ring ability.
The issue is she maybe over in the IWC, but to the causal audience they don't know her yet or they don't care about her enough to give her any heel heat. For her to get any real heel heat she needs to stop making cute faces,and start bashing the audience more. She also is still too green in the ring, and as the champion it's hard to hide the little experience she has in the ring.
Well shitty booking will do that. Every women has been looking like crap besides Naomi. For some reason Naomi is getting strong booking to make her stand out from the pack. Can you show me a example of Alexa showing that drive? She looks and acts the same. Just now she doesn't have Becky to put her over anymore. Maybe you're tired of the same old bitchy heel trope.
I'd lose my drive too if my first title reign ended because of Black History month shit or whatever to Naomi. I'd lose my drive too if my booking went to obscurity just because its WM season and they decide to half-ass anything that's not involving part timers, McMahons, Cena, Reigns or the SuperWomans on RAW.
I'd lose my drive too if my match at the biggest show of the year is a throwaway "against every SDL woman.:"
Alexa was never good enough to be a champion, but the excitement of the fans ended up blinding them. She reached the top very early and it's always bad, it causes the wrestler to stop to evolve and stay stagnant on one level. Is she good at the mic? Yes, but it is bad in all other respects.
I'd find it hard to have drive in that dumpster fire of a division too. It's not just Bliss. Everybody feels like they're going through the motions. Now that the honeymoon period of the draft is over it's back to the same lazy, bare minimum booking.
At the same time, I find it hard to disagree with the people saying that Bliss was really overhyped and now the realisation that she's just not that good is sinking in. I think that's definitely a factor. She was pushed too hard, too soon. Plain and simple. Maybe she'll be this amazing talent someday but that day is a good while off. People seem to forget just how young and inexperienced this woman is. Don't expect her to churn out MOTY candidates and must watch TV. Be realistic.
To be honest i'm not really surprised that she's lot a bit of her fire. A wrestler's hot streak can only really go on for so long. Charlotte's gone off the boil a bit recently too after shining on the RAW side.
Alexa's had a lot of work to do carrying the SDL division alongside Becky, her appeal has probably worn off and she hasn't had as much chance to showcase her character and mic work over the last few works compared to what she used to.
What do you expect when the booking of the division is built around getting everyone on the Wrestlemania card rather than building individual programs which matter? Hopefully if they pair her and Mickie in a feud after Mania it will give her something to sink her teeth into. Instead Naomi will probably win the title, nothing against Naomi but there really Isn't a whole lot to work with when it comes to her, she just lacks the charisma necessary to be a successful champion in my view. I do think people tried to act like Alexa was/is better than she actually is, the potential is there but anyone who expected her to come out and have blowaway matches was deceiving themselves, she wasn't given enough time to develop in NXT and never even had a singles match on a Takeover special.
Can't speak for everyone, but when she started on SD I liked her a lot because it looked like she got lots of potential. Well lots of time passed by now and she hasn't really improved. Obviously it doesn't help that she got belt very fast and booking was atrocious.
I still think Alexa has potential, but the booking of her since the Becky feud has been poor.
The Becky feud was good and allowed both to shine, but since then she had to drop the title to Naomi for black history month, and then Naomi vacates the title and Alexa gets it back. In my view, they should have gone with Alexa vs Mickie at Wrestlemania. It was the logical step and could have been a good program leading into Mania, but as usual the WWE want to pile everyone onto the show and it ruined what coul have been a good build.
I agree. I mean I still enjoy looking at her ass & I'd still destroy her but the womens division has been lacking lately and she's supposed to be the leader of it right now. Aside from her attractiveness she needs to pick it up.
I'm pretty interested to see the SDL womens match at Mania, hopefully the women are dialed in & can bounce back with a good match.
Papa HHH handed her everything with her only having to do minimal work to get there (relatively), just being handed success like she is despite being a mediocre at best talent can kill enthusiasm and drive because success has come too easily for her
And as said by others; the new car smell has worn off. Eight months later and this Alexa who has so much potential, is now the overpushed, and exposed Alexa Bliss who is still very much a work in progress and needed years more experience before she got this sort of push. She just not very good, she's a lot closer to Eva Marie than her fans want to admit.
She's also hurt by the fact that she just isn't over. She might have some super hardcore fans online who want to murder Naomi but no live audience ever gives two shits about her. Working with Becky Lynch who is over, helped her out in this regard. At least she was working with someone the fans cared about.
The big thing with Alexa is she has potential, she has a lot of potential. But HHH is pretending she's the finished product right now and booking her as if she's already good-great. She's an attractive and athletic blonde with charisma and above average mic skills yet no memorable promos, and is poor in the ring. She can improve, she has too improve, but thats years down the line.
Papa HHH handed her everything with her only having to do minimal work to get there (relatively), just being handed success like she is despite being a mediocre at best talent can kill enthusiasm and drive because success has come too easily for her
And as said by others; the new car smell has worn off. Eight months later and this Alexa who has so much potential, is now the overpushed, and exposed Alexa Bliss who is still very much a work in project and needed years more experience before she got this sort of push. She just not very good, she's a lot closer to Eva Marie than her fans want to admit.
The big thing with Alexa is she has potential, she has a lot of potential. But HHH is pretending she's the finished product right now and booking her as if she's already good-great. She's an attractive and athletic blonde with charisma and above average mic skills yet no memorable promos, and is poor in the ring. She can improve, she has too improve, but thats years down the line.
She's nowhere near Eva right now. Eva actually gets heat, she has a presence and gets a reaction from the crowd. She's easy to hate, Bliss is hard to care about, and her winning the title so soon has made the title hard to care about.
I'd guess more people paid attention to Eva's segments with Becky than they do now to the current division.
Bliss Marks will say that she's much more athletic and better than Eva in the ring and that's true but does that really matter when neither can come close to a decent match?
"X wrestler seems like lost fire and drive" threads are useless, I can make a thread about Seth Rollins being fucking boring and doing stupid embarrassing jokes like "Sparkle Crotch" and people would blame the booking, Alexa seems the same to me, everyone are gonna fall victim of Vince, Steph and HHH stupid ideas, even Rusev did comedy looking like a cuck with Rock taking his woman.
Haven't really noticed any sort of downswing in her work. She's adequate in the ring (getting better by the month), has a solid character, and good promo skills....Certainly better mic skills than any other woman on Smackdown, with the exception of Micky James.
For me, she's basically like a version of Eva Marie that isn't completely awful at everything.
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