From Toy Dolls to Hypnosis: The Problems with Alexa Bliss in WWE

Since aligning with the Fiend, Alexa Bliss has become one of the most polarizing figures in the entire WWE. Her transition from the cheerful character she once was to the dark and psychotic figure she is now quickly gone from one of the best storylines in the WWE to one of the worst of all time.

Replacing the Fiend for toy doll named Lily with magical powers, coupled with the recent addition of hypnosis to her character highlights how bad this is not only for Alexa Bliss but WWE as a whole. Coming off of arguably the worst main event in the history of Monday Night Raw, Bliss put Lily in an indefinite timeout (the closest thing we will ever get to WWE admitting they screwed up). While many thought that they were finally moving away from weird and wacky Alexa Bliss, it only got worse as she debuted her new power at Hell in a Cell: hypnosis. *facepalm*

The highlight of the match (if you can even call it that) came when Alexa Bliss used her magical powers to hypnotize Nia Jax into slapping Reginald by mirroring her movements. Yes, you read that correctly. That actually happened in a wrestling match on a pay-per-view in the WWE.

As a wrestling fan, we are expected to suspend disbelief when watching and immerse ourselves in the realities that our favorite wrestlers face. However, blatantly insulting the intelligence of fans like they have done with Alexa Bliss will only continue to degrade the product as a whole and turn away more and more people from watching wrestling because of how phony and unrealistic this stuff is.

I cannot for the life of me understand why WWE continues to do this. In their defense, Alexa Bliss segments always seem to garner the most interest on Youtube out of anything on Monday Night RAW, so there is clearly an interest in it, for better or for worse. But as ratings continue to fall and fan support for Alexa Bliss’s character continues to diminish, what logical reason does the WWE have to continue putting this out every single week?

Triple H, an Executive Vice President for the WWE, recently said it best: “watch it or don’t”, a message fans have clearly acted on as ratings continue to fall for the former flagship show of the company. I can’t help but feel like the sheer stupidity of the stuff involving Alexa Bliss right now is playing a big factor in that.

For any new fans attempting to start watching wrestling, how in any way is this stuff appealing enough to them to want to continue watching? Imagine trying to explain to your friends who are not wrestling fans what Alexa Bliss’s character is.

To give credit where it is due, Alexa Bliss as a performer has done a great job in this role considering what she is being given. As well, it seems she is now starting to wrestle more frequently and in actual matches, unlike what we saw at Fastlane with Randy Orton. Hopefully, that keeps up as the RAW Women’s division desperately needs some fresh rivalries and storylines to regain interest.

It’s clear that this Alexa Bliss experiment is not working and needs to either be altered or dropped as a whole before live fans return. The WWE universe is always brutally honest about what they like and what they don’t like as we saw at Wrestlemania 37 between Bliss and the Fiend. I cannot imagine they feel any different now about Alexa Bliss than they did back in April given what’s been happening on RAW since then and something needs to change soon before the fans give WWE a brutal wake-up call.

I mean who really wants to see the first Monday Night Raw in front of fans in almost a year and a half get hijacked by fans because of something stupid involving Alexa Bliss? Actually, I wouldn’t mind that at this point and with the way things are going, it seems WWE doesn’t mind either!