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Post by Brandon on Dec 10, 2019 13:53:54 GMT -5
Finally. When she didn't return the week after Survivor Series I almost dropped her from my BPX team. Hopefully these videos don't go on for as long as the Emmalina ones. History tells me not to get excited over this. If they don't change their mind about whatever they're doing with her before she even re-debuts on TV, there's absolutely nothing that suggests they'll do anything meaningful with her once she does.
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Post by Burke on Dec 16, 2019 14:33:12 GMT -5
Asuka is 3-0 in PPV main events.
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Post by Tiarnán on Dec 26, 2019 17:13:14 GMT -5
I'm glad Asuka (/Kairi) is getting some semblance of a push, but is anyone else concerned that the division seems to have become more whitewashed than ever?
It struck me more than before when they had that number one contenders match after the draft with the SmackDown women when everyone was blonde besides Nikki, who is a white Scottish woman. Becky is the biggest star, which is deserved, and Charlotte is the other number one, also deserved. Nevertheless they're both white woman; Becky is Irish, which is somewhat diverse, but of course Irish wrestlers will succeed in WWE.
The only ethnic women getting pushed right now are the heels - Sasha and Bayley are the two top cowardly heels on SmackDown and seem to be propped up to get over WASP Lacey Evans whose character at the minute is a Southern family woman who was in the marines and cares about honour and America. Number two is Dana Brooke, and number three is Carmella, who according to her Twitter has been told by the company to keep her hair blonde (like about 9 or 10 other women in the WWE). Alexa and sidekick Nikki are the top face team, and their rivals are Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville - and of course the blonde ex fitness model is the focus of the team whereas the LGBTQ+ partner takes the falls and doesn't speak.
On Raw, Becky and Charlotte rule things and probably will for the foreseeable future. The Kabuki Warriors are the top heels, and it's nice that they're being spotlighted, but it took a conversion into evil doers who spray green mist and cackle in Japanese to get that feature spot. They were floundering for months before that. Liv Morgan is getting hyped at the minute in videos, and the only other woman regularly on television is another blonde white woman, Lana, and on occasion Natalya.
NXT is a lot more visually diverse, but while her rise was exciting to see, the new ordained face of the brand is Rhea Ripley, who did the unthinkable and conquered Shayna, something the likes of Bianca, Io and even Kairi weren't able to do.
It's not me doubting any of the women mentioned, it's just the overall picture being created. Bayley, Sasha, Asuka and Kairi are all competing regularly, but they're the only women of colour on the two main brands doing so. I love them as heels but it doesn't look great.
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