WWE Can’t Forget that Nia Jax is a Monster Heel

With her verbal barbs, Alexa Bliss may have a awoken (a different kind of “woken”, Matt Hardy) the sleeping beast resting within Nia Jax.  Once Bliss receives her beating at WrestleMania, it will be important that Jax’s most valuable asset is as a monster.  She should continue to be portrayed as such.

The sweetest success may come when one is fueled by pain.  Vanquishing inner demons, either self-placed or formulated from the words and actions of others, makes any victory a cleansing of the soul, washing it free of all stains covering the potential lying within.

The character of Nia Jax has an opportunity to cleanse her own soul when she faces Alexa Bliss for the WWE Raw Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 34.  After spending months being the iron fist used carry out Bliss’s dirty work, Jax had an opportunity to hear exactly what her supposed best friend really though about her.

Inadvertently speaking near a live microphone, Bliss talked about Jax’s insecurities regarding her size and lonesome childhood to her new confidant, Mickie James.  Jax had the unfortunate task of overhearing the one person she thought she could trust.  But within the unfortunate details of this situation lies the opportunity to remove five feet of catty tumor from Nia Jax’s road to the top of the WWE women’s division.

Much of Bliss’s insults revolved around the size of Jax, causing her to be an outcast for much of her life (kayfabe life, hopefully.  Nia seems like an absolute pleasure to have as a friend on Total Divas

….I mean….that’s what my wife tells me……

….anyhoo….).  All signs are pointing towards Nia going through Bliss like a lion through a gazelle at WrestleMania 34.  This victory will immediately make her an outcast’s champion, a position that almost no female wrestler (very few men’s wrestlers for that matter) has found herself to be in.  Her positioning as the outcast’s champion will immediately add a wondeful new wrinkle of possibility to a brilliantly budding push towards mainstream women’s wrestling.   In the midst of all this, however, WWE needs to remember that monster female heels do not grow on trees, and they have the potential to possess an all-time great one in Nia Jax.

There is going to be a vigorous temptation to have Jax placed in the position of a champion that refuses to fold under the pressure of society’s norms.  In 2018, in a time tumultuous thanks to racism, sexism, body-shaming, and an assembly line of other issues that are anchors to equality, we probably need a Raw Women’s Champion that goes against the grain of what a female professional wrestler typically looks like.  We need as many reminders as possible to show us that dreams are what make like tolerable, and each one of us are entitled to have, and more importantly, pursue them.

However, as professional wrestling fans, we are in need of an unstoppable monster female heel.  We need a mean Nia Jax.

Wrestling fans are a funny bunch.  We leave the WWE and others small pockets of opportunity to produce something wholesome.  However, we need that wholesomeness tested, and we need dynamic, vulnerable characters who have the range not only to leave the dark and find the light, but also to see that heelish tactics are sexy and provide an advantage over the babyfaces that refuse to relinquish honor and pride.

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Nia Jax has already felt the wrath of a cold world that refused to accept her and those like her.  Once her championing is through, she is going to find an audience rejecting her honorable plight once the point has been made.  Again, she will be outcast.  Again, she will be transfixed on destroying all those who oppose her, providing another upcoming babyface to slay the dragon.

That is, if WWE allows her to do so.