{"id":49147,"date":"2022-12-22T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49147"},"modified":"2022-12-22T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:33:01","slug":"i-dont-think-the-wwe-realizes-the-christmas-gift-theyve-just-been-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49147","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t think the WWE realizes the Christmas gift they\u2019ve just been given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49148 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/karenWWE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/karenWWE.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/karenWWE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/2022\/12\/20\/23518964\/lacey-evans-criticized-autism-video-conspiracy-theory\">SSDD<\/a> \u2013 WWE superstar under fire for unpopular opinions on social media, feat. Lacey Evans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I don\u2019t particularly care to go too in depth on what Lacey Evans said or supported on social media, I\u2019m sure anyone interested could simply google it and find it with relative ease, but basically it has something to do with her basically being a believer in some conspiracies about how autism and ADD are fake or something of the sort, and the internet coming down on her like Hulkamania, forcing her into internet defense mode, and last I checked, she\u2019s deactivated all her shit and gone dark, as one really should do when the heat gets a little hot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The point of this post is though, that if there were ever one small sliver of an advantage that Lacey Evans has in her life right now, is the fact that she\u2019s a professional wrestler, an occupation oft-seen as carny and not to be taken too seriously, and if she and interested parties play their cards right, I feel like there\u2019s a hell of a gift to be found and cashed in upon, and Evans can be absolved of dumb doing, and the WWE can possibly make some money in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Long story short, the WWE hasn\u2019t had much luck in finding a working formula, creatively, for Lacey Evans.\u00a0 And Lacey Evans, personal beliefs notwithstanding, is one of those talents that actually excels more on the physical spectrum than character work, which is kind of a rarity these days, as lots of wrestlers have realized that it\u2019s more important to be able to entertaining versus demonstrating technical ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We had the, kind of Rosie the Riveter She Can Do It version of Lacey Evans when she was still in NXT, she was called up to the main roster to be the sassy southern belle, which had a little bit of success, but her personal life derailed her career just when things were getting interesting in a program with Charlotte Flair when she got pregnant and had to go off television.\u00a0 But to her credit, she had a kid, got back into shape, but has been spinning wheels trying to get back on television, even trying to lean into the usual layup of All-American veteran-turned pro wrestler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Just when things were seemingly trying to get back on course again, by pairing Evans up with the hall of fame Sgt. Slaughter, she had to get in her own way by spouting off on Twitter, which frankly social media should be avoided by all celebrities if they know what\u2019s good for them, and the internet is all over her because her opinions are not popular, regardless of the fact that I think they\u2019re dumb too personally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But the thing is, as Eric Bischoff once said, controversy creates cash, and whether Lacey Evans and the WWE realize it or not, they\u2019ve been given a tremendous gift right now, in the form of an extremely effective emotion-eliciting potential persona for Lacey Evans:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Lacey Evans: the Karen of the WWE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Her autism non-believing was all just a work to establish the character, and rile people up.\u00a0 She sides with all the right wing idiots who defend and\/or support her, and PG fights back against any and all detractors of her opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When she shows up on television again, she\u2019s a face in red parts of the United States, cheered like Daniel Bryan at the height of the YES movement, but when the company tours blue cities, she\u2019s a heel who draws the ire and heat like a pre-Bloodline Roman Reigns when the fans absolutely refused to accept him as the face of the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For a company that thrives on eliciting reaction from the people, this is a boon that could be on the tier of Bret Hart\u2019s face\/heel reactions based on being in the US or not, except it could happen within the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In the ring, she changes her attire to high-waisted mom jeans, and wears the same kind of ear protecting headgear that Rick Steiner used to wear.\u00a0 Aside from her above-average in-ring arsenal, she begins arguing with referees excessively, and even starts beefs where she doesn\u2019t accept the black female referee and demands there always be a second referee during her matches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">She picks fights with talent that relies heavily on sex appeal and skimpy ring attire, so she goes after talents such as Nikkita Lyons, Tiffany Stratton and Alexa Bliss.\u00a0 If Mandy Rose weren\u2019t fired, then Lacey Evans trying to get her cancelled would\u2019ve been a layup of a storyline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Her new finishing move would be straight ripping off Britt Baker\u2019s Lockjaw, and renamed Censorship or Cancellation, which is a win on two fronts for stealing a marquee competitor\u2019s signature move as well as being something that would be a great heat magnet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If she loses, she complains excessively to Adam Pierce and demands to speak with his manager, which then loops in Triple H and\/or Stephanie McMahon, and through this rub with the brass, she eventually gets up into the main event, where she would be a great foil for any of the champions be it getting racially uncomfortable with Bianca Belair, or attempting to cancel Ronda Rousey for being too violent or in objection to calling herself the baddest bitch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In today\u2019s current environment, there\u2019s little reason why a Karen character wouldn\u2019t succeed as a white hot heel.\u00a0 What\u2019s old is always new again, and much like the WWE\u2019s parodying of the Parent-Teacher Council when they created Right To Censor, they did pretty alright for themselves, and it\u2019s often been said that the best characters in the industry are people being themselves, but turned up to 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Let Lacey Evans\u2019 inner-Karen come out and be herself, turn it up to 11, and let the ratings flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Stamford, I\u2019ll email you my address for my royalty checks.\u00a0 Happy <span style=\"text-decoration-line: line-through;\">Chanukah<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration-line: line-through;\">Kwanzaa <\/span>Merry Christmas!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSDD \u2013 WWE superstar under fire for unpopular opinions on social media, feat. Lacey Evans I don\u2019t particularly care to go too in depth on what Lacey Evans said or supported on social media, I\u2019m sure anyone interested could simply google it and find it with relative ease, but basically it has something to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don\u2019t think the WWE realizes the Christmas gift they\u2019ve just been given<\/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":[79,83,89,156,69,190,54,55],"class_list":["post-49147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-social-media","tag-television","tag-white-people","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147","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=49147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49149,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147\/revisions\/49149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}