Lars Sullivan and Alexa Bliss stood out most to me this week, even though they both appeared on the “B” show SmackDown Live (for now, I’m assuming that it will be presented as the flagship show starting in October of this here when it switches networks to Fox).
WWE, to be honest, has always given Alexa Bliss favorable treatment since she debuted on the main roster nearly the three years ago. Maybe they feel somewhat bad that they discounted her abilities to a degree in NXT, because she never even had a Takeover match. It can’t be argued, however, that she has absolutely proven herself as a five-time women’s champion (with an opportunity to make it six). She may even wind up winning the SmackDown Women’s Championship from Bayley, since Bayley does not seem like a long-term champion. It is absolutely nothing against her, but she just isn’t quite as powerful as Alexa.
It’s been almost a year since Alexa, who was originally slightly favored to win the Money in the Bank contract based on prior booking, was champion (she lost the Raw Women’s Championship to Ronda Rousey at SummerSlam last year), and she also won the same title from Bayley at Payback in April 2017. This would also be a great way for her to come out of her concussion issues which have largely kept her out of action since September 2018. These concussion issues are slightly concerning though given how young she is (only 27 years old). Corey Graves also has to be losing it.
Lars Sullivan was also quite impressive last week. He is surprisingly very good on the mic (much better than Festus, better known as Luke Gallows now, or Snitsky, which is more the level of skill that was expected, at least by me). He should have a squash match at Super Showdown against Lucha House Party and continue his dominance. After this, however, he should look to enter a rivalry with a top-level superstar, maybe even someone like Roman Reigns, after Roman’s pointless and boring feud with Shane McMahon, which by the way is wasting all the momentum Drew McIntyre had coming out of WrestleMania.