5 WWE Women’s Wrestling Takeaways: New Era Fizzles Fast
By JB Alexander
Credit: WWE.com
A Moment Of Bliss Is A Moment Wasted
This week on Raw we were given a single segment with Alexa Bliss, now no longer in charge of the women’s division on Monday nights. She was making the announcement that, even though she’s not in power anymore, she would be getting her very own talk show debuting next week called “A Moment of Bliss.”
In the words of Michelle McCool and Layla, it’s time for some real talk.
From the time I became a fan in the late ‘90s to now, I’ve seen Chris Jericho’s Highlight Reel, the Cutting Edge, MizTV, Truth TV and probably so many more that I’ve forced myself to forget, and they’ve all been a terrible, terrible waste of precious television real estate.
These shows are simply a time stall and are the laziest of lazy methods of filling screen time with more talk and less wrestling.
I get that characters need to evolve; I’m even a proponent of the notion that characters and moments often matter more than great wrestling matches. Yeah, I’m that guy. But characters and stories don’t evolve just because someone’s standing in the ring with a microphone in their hands.
We’ve heard it all before, anyway. This person’s going to take that person’s title, and they guarantee victory. Insert some sick burn and a brawl ensues.
If WWE’s not looking to fill these segments with wrestling, then Raw needs to take the time they’re going to be using on “A Moment of Bliss” and spend it on varied backstage segments and creative character development instead of a weekly routine bathroom break that’s never going to give us anything new.