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Bayley: The Villain We Love

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DING DONG, HELLO?   Bayley, Bayley, Bayley. If you search the web long enough, it's highly possible you'll come across a conspiracy theory that says Bayley's heel turn was so powerful it sent the world into a year long confinement for safety measures. One of the most beloved babyfaces in WWE's history suddenly shifting gears and switching lanes was a high risk / unknown reward type of situations. As if that wasn't already frightening enough, the rebirth of Bayley's character happened at the precise time where wrestling went through the most unprecedented and unnatural shift: no crowd. Everyone knows that wrestling, while it has the sports component that doesn't change regardless of what's surrounding it, has a very specific type of entertainment that thrives from crowd reaction. If a soccer team can be pushed to victory with the chants of a crowd, a wrestling match can be changed and rearranged multiple times depending on the direction the crowd would li...

The Most Perfect Storm

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  There's a very popular Portuguese saying that, roughly translated, says: a wet wedding is a blessed wedding . However, there is one rule for this to become a reality: You can't see a weather forecast and book the date for a rainy day, it simply has to happen. Unannounced. From the moment Sasha Banks v Bianca Belair was made official for Wrestlemania, the date was booked. The venue was set. And albeit the road was bumpy, everyone knew that when the time came, this historic match would cross the wrestling sky like the shooting stars Banks and Belair are. But, because the Universe works in mysterious ways, a storm threatened to derail what seemed like a match made in heaven. Intense rain, wind and lightning delayed the start of Wrestlemania 37 but nothing could get in the way of the main event. The first time two black women would highlight the biggest spectacle of the year on the grandest stage of them all. And if you've watched the match, you know the unannounced rain wa...