#4 Lana has been practising
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There’s a reason why Lana doesn’t receive the same amount of X-Pac heat as somebody like Eva Marie, despite her lack of in-ring skills. Lana wasn’t even supposed to be an active competitor, originally being brought in as a heat magnet for Rusev. The crowd have flocked towards her, owning to her abilities to work the audience and the fact that she clearly cares about doing the best job she can.
Eva Marie is a different story altogether. You get the impression that she doesn’t really care about being a WWE superstar, and is instead using her platform to build her modelling career. This is what angers fans more so than the fact that she cannot wrestle.
Back at Wrestlemania 32, we got a short glimpse into how Lana would fare as a wrestler. The verdict wasn’t great, considering the fact that she struggled to get through a multi-woman pre-show tag team match without hiding her limitations. For a while, we just assumed that she would revert back to being a manager and leave the in-ring work to the other ladies.
Since her return last week, however, Lana’s wrestling career is looking a little brighter. She received a very warm welcome last week, showing that fans are still pleased to see her. And this week she even showcased her brand new finishing move. It’s obviously not fair to judge somebody’s skills on just the one move, but it was executed very solidly and looked like it was capable of disabling an opponent for a three count.
Just with this one move, she has shown some improvement since her last outing at Mania, and hopefully, she has built a decent move set to go along with it.
She will be in the ring with Naomi on Sunday, challenging for the Smackdown Women’s Championship. While it is unlikely she will be walking away with the gold, Smackdown Live has proven recently that literally, anything is possible.
