WWE Smackdown Superstar Was Always Planned To Act As A Top Villain
Aug 7, 2022 at 1:25 PM
Back in the very beginning of 2021, Lacey Evans started to create a buzz as a top heel on Monday Night Raw. Creating an alliance with Legendary Ric Flair, she was supposed to be on the verge of a big push until she got pregnant and thus got forced to take some time off from television. She was originally set to receive a Raw Women’s Title match against Charlotte Flair at the biggest stage of Wrestlemania 37 that never materialized.
After a hiatus of almost one and a half years, Lacey Evans returned after Wrestlemania 38 and WWE utilized the opportunity to debut a new gimmick around her.
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The former Mariner was presented as an American Hero to get some of the loudest pops from the fans. WWE started airing vignettes for her a few months back to focus on her rough upbringing and the insurmountable odds that she had to overcome to get to the WWE.
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After jumbling up between a face and heel turn, Lacey Evans recently turned heel on SmackDown. She cut a heel promo before her scheduled tag match with Aliyah against the team of Tamina Snuka and Shotzi. After forfeiting the match, she also opted to flatten Aliyah with a Women’s Right. The heel-turn was solidified on the blue brand with further outrageous promos and one more attack on Aliyah.
A recent report from Wrestling Observer claims that the original plan for Lacey Evans always called for a heel-turn despite all those heroic vignettes followed by a babyface return to TV,
“They filmed these segments making her the ultimate survivor of a bad upbringing, who overcame it, won women’s wrestling tournaments and served in the Marines and made it to WWE.
Then, as a babyface, they did nothing with her, with the long-game idea to not get her over as a face for the turn.”
The storyline reason shown behind the heel-turn of Lacey Evans is that she isn’t happy about how the fans aren’t cheering for her despite her being an American Hero. She is having a great time since the natural heel persona really suits her. Hopefully, this can finally lead her to the championship picture, down the road.