{"id":45339,"date":"2017-09-05T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45339"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:11:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:11:55","slug":"im-already-sold-on-bianca-belair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45339","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m already sold on Bianca Belair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I\u2019m watching The Mae Young Classic <\/em>on the WWE Network for $9.95 a month, and it\u2019s pretty much everything I figured it would be; pretty obviously scripted, easily predictable in who\u2019s going to win what matches, and although I haven\u2019t caught up to the very most recent episode, it\u2019s a pretty forgone conclusion to whom will probably be in the final four, as well as who\u2019s probably going to win the whole shebang outright.<\/span><\/p>\n

And although she was someone who lost in the second round of the tournament, I have to say that the biggest takeaway for me so far, has been Bianca Belair<\/strong>.\u00a0 Watching the first round matches, it was painfully evident the people that were there for fodder, but it was also as apparent to quickly identify the women that actually had some talent.\u00a0 Belair caught my immediately, mostly because she didn\u2019t just have a six-pack, but more like a Pepsi Cube<\/a> of chiseled abdominal muscles; whether she could wrestle or not was irrelevant, this girl was a physical specimen.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m far removed from wrestling fandom to know who a lot of these women are, and I can\u2019t be one of the cool hip smarks who know what their names in a previous federation or country were, but I was pretty immediately impressed by Bianca Belair in her opening round victory, because sure she was a little green in wrestling talent, but the athleticism was off the chart, and she had a very natural ring presence when it came to acting to her persona.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But then I watched her second round match with Kairi Sane who will probably be the runner-up in the whole tournament to Shayna Baszler because there\u2019s a very predictable storyline brewing amidst this tournament; but Belair vs. Sane was probably the hottest match of the entire first and second rounds combined, and the jury is still out on whether or not any of the later ones will surpass it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it was clear that Sane carried the match, but Belair still demonstrated some great work in the match, and there\u2019s no denying that she has the physical tools to cut it in the industry.\u00a0 But what really opened my eyes was the spot where Belair began whipping Sane with her ridiculously long braid, and the fans went absolutely bonkers hot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heat this hot, especially in a developmental territory, is genuine gold in the making.\u00a0 The absolute goal of any wrestling performer is to elicit reaction, whether it\u2019s good or bad; any sort of reaction is infinitely better than absolutely no reaction at all.\u00a0 There was no way Belair was going to have any split cheering section like 75% of the other matches did in the first place, but when she went full dark side and started whipping the tar out of fan-favorite Kairi Sane, with her braid, the fans went nuclear, which I found to be pretty surprising.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, the usual crowd at Full Sail University are extremely smarky as it is, but that\u2019s just how much heat the act seemed to generate, to where it blows past the spotting of the heat-meter to where it\u2019s suddenly \u201coh shit, that really pissed them off\u201d kind of heat.\u00a0 And the fact that Belair seemed to feed off of the massive reaction, with playing into the heel role, and then demonstrating some great spots, she turned into moneybags in spandex as far as my eyes could see.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then<\/em> she bust out a 450 splash that would\u2019ve make Juventud Guerrera and AJ Styles go holy shit, and I was completely sold.\u00a0 I think the WWE would be foolish to let her move on, especially when the women\u2019s division is in need of some fresh talent and personalities.\u00a0 As it stands right now, Belair would make an excellent cocky heel persona, and her pursuing and eventually capturing the NXT title would be way more compelling women\u2019s division than anything that Peyton Royce and Billie Kaye could ever dream up.\u00a0 Whipping faces with her hair, with the commentary arguing on whether it\u2019s legal or not, and then she would do shit like guerilla presses and 450 splashes since she\u2019s clearly a god-like physical specimen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bianca Belair won\u2019t win the Mae Young Classic, but as far as I\u2019m concerned, she could very well be the breakout star of the whole tournament.\u00a0 I am clearly not the only one<\/a> who has come to this conclusion, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019m watching The Mae Young Classic on the WWE Network for $9.95 a month, and it\u2019s pretty much everything I figured it would be; pretty obviously scripted, easily predictable in who\u2019s going to win what matches, and although I haven\u2019t caught up to the very most recent episode, it\u2019s a pretty forgone conclusion to … Continue reading I\u2019m already sold on Bianca Belair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,54,55],"class_list":["post-45339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45341,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339\/revisions\/45341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}