5 Things Nia Jax Needs to Become a Top WWE Star

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2. Every Woman on the Roster Needs to Be Afraid of Her

For some strange reason, WWE’s storylines don’t require week-to-week continuity. There are many occasions where two wrestlers will have a throwaway match without any subsequent follow-up. This hurts the programming, as it makes both the wrestlers and the fans wonder what the wrestlers are even fighting for.

In Nia Jax’s case, she has been destroying other women for months now, but there hasn’t been any payoff. As mentioned earlier, she mopped the floor with Alicia Fox, who has been in WWE for a decade.

Even though Jax was in NXT and was defeated down there, she remains undefeated on RAW. In theory, every woman on the roster should be afraid of her. People in WWE (both female and male) should react to her walking by in the same way they do to the Undertaker and how they once did for Kane. They should open a path for her when she walks by, stop talking so not to insult her, and should actually be afraid of even getting in the ring with her.

These subtleties of booking are essential when making a monster character work. When Teddy Long threatened and punished his wrestlers by making them go one on one with the Undertaker, there was proper storytelling there. ‘Taker was a terrifying force back then, and both wrestlers and authority figures feared his wrath.

Since WWE are going with a female monster (at least based on her match booking), the lack of fear towards her is preventing her from being taken seriously. If the other women (including the champions) feared Nia Jax, she’d get over so much more quickly.

Instead, most of the women don’t sell fear towards one another or towards matches themselves (it’s quite odd that it took a retired Mick Foley to actually make the upcoming women’s HIAC match sound dangerous). In fact, the only woman that’s actually feared by anyone is Stephanie McMahon, and she isn’t even a full-time wrestler.

And speaking of Stephanie…