Before Women’s North American Champion Zaria gets called up to the main roster, all I want is for her to have a run where she’s booked like the beast of a bada** she is, preferably with a title, rather than whatever “NXT” keeps giving her. I do not understand what this show is trying to accomplish in her feud with Izzi Dame.
Dame continues to taunt Zaria about her -what seems to be relatively normal- past. Tonight, she cut a moody, dramatic promo under The Culling’s blue lights, across from Niko Vance, where she once again derisively referred to photos of Zaria’s time in high school theater, seemingly unaware of the irony. Dame commented on Zaria being “broken,” and while she “likes broken things,” being broken doesn’t make Zaria innocent or special.
While she’s a very good, convincing promo and she delivers her lines naturally (it’s almost like the theater kid to professional wrestling pipeline makes a lot of sense), I’m just as confused as Vance by all of this. Dame said she sees Zaria as a “scared girl hiding behind a title,” which I guess could make some kind of sense, but I swear, if they go back to mentioning Zaria’s insecurities about being second to Sol Ruca, I am going to scream.
Dame went as far as to say this all isn’t even about the Women’s NA Championship, at least not yet, and she’s just using the title as an opportunity to get close to Zaria, to see when she inevitably slips. I hate when wrestlers say things aren’t about titles, especially when they’re feuding with a champion. If she’s trying to break Zaria and get her to slip, why wouldn’t her first goal be to take the title off of her? If it’s not about the championship, is Dame just jealous she wasn’t cast as one of the leads in “Wicked” back in high school? I really just need someone to make sense of that for me.
I’m ready for “NXT” to get this show on the road, physically, as I haven’t seen Dame in singles action in a while, and I was really starting to like her in the ring. Her work with Lizzy Rain was really fun, so I think she’ll kick butt with Zaria, too. I wouldn’t even mind if this feud was like Dame and Tatum Paxley’s, a series of matches that ends in a cage, as it feels like they could get heated enough to head to a stipulation bout. How long it takes them to get there, however, is anyone’s guess.
Written by Daisy Ruth
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