WWE: 5 Superstars Who are Long Overdue for a Big Push
By Mark Justice
5.) Ruby Riott
Ruby Riott, the former leader of the Riott Squad, started her main roster career alongside Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan on the right foot. This faction was exciting to watch each week on Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live as they persistently engendered controversy and chaos while breaking friendships apart in the process.
Unfortunately, this incredible faction broke up without even winning the Women’s Tag Team Championships and each of the members got lost in the shuffle. Out of the three members, many WWE fans would have expected the leader to get the biggest push but one of the sidekicks, Liv Morgan, is getting the biggest push instead.
Many of those fans also figured that Ruby Riott would regain momentum after returning from injury, but she has lost all of her matches since returning. The piss poor booking of Ruby Riott on Raw as of late is an injustice to her many talents that are disclosed through her witty orations on the mic as well as her technical prowess inside the squared circle (as evidenced by her show-stealing matches against Asuka and Liv Morgan in the past month).
How does the WWE expect Ruby Riott’s stock to rise in the eye of the common viewer if she keeps losing her matches? How does the WWE expect the WWE fans to remember that Ruby Riott was the leader of the Riott Squad if she barely gets mic time?
How does the WWE expect Ruby Riott to get a solid connection with the WWE fanbase if her story is not being told the way she wants it to be told? How does the WWE expect Ruby Riott to get any better if the company does not take a risk with her talents?
Ruby Riott’s gimmick of being an outsider or renegade with anti-societal values is clearly championship material and could very feasibly fit into the anti-hero realm or scope of WWE’s booking, but the WWE Universe does not know this yet because her momentum does not support it. As long as the WWE gives her freedom on the mic and more time in the ring, she will prove why she needs to be pushed, rather than wasted.