WWE Evil Season 2 Wishlist

 I recently watched all of  WWE's newest documentary series "EVIL". At first I wasn't too sure about the series. Honestly, maybe I didn't pay enough attention during the promos to really understand what they were trying to go for. So that left me unsure if the idea of "EVIL"would even work.

Damnit it did, even knowing most of the history. I enjoyed watching about the genesis and journies of certain wrestlers heel personas (of course with a WWE spin on history).

My favorite episode was Roman Reigns, but overall all 8 episodes were a job well done. Kudos to the WWE for another amazing docuseries which is the best thing the WWE network has going for it next to Broken Skull Sessions. Kudos to John Cena for executive producing it.

Now that the first 8 episodes are out of the way. It's time to give my wishlist of who I think would be good subjects to cover next.

Edge

The Ultimate opportunist, The Rated R Superstar. From late 2005 until 2010, Edge was theee Most hated man in WWE. His real life relationship with Lita while she was dating his friend Matt Hardy kicked it off. Their feud was blood thirsty in the summer of '05. He then feuded with Ric Flair making fun of his drinking habits, and started his own talk segment "The Cutting Edge". 

He was the first Money In The Bank cash in winner, had a live "sex" celebration on TV. He was set to marry Vickie Guerrero and cheated on her with the wedding planner (unknown Alicia Fox). He speared Mick Foley through a flaming table at Wrestlemania 22. 

Teamed with Randy Orton to form "Rated RKO". Trashed Cena's spinner belt and made his own "Rated R" spinner championship. Had two devoted followers in his quest to remain world champion in the edgeheads (Young Matt Cardona and Brian Meyers). 

His series of matches with John Cena in the mid 2000s are still underrated, the feud is not talked about enough when you mention best feuds of the last 15 or so years.

He recently turned heel leading up to his match with AJ Styles at this year's Wrestlemania. Now he's going down a "cult" leader path with Damien Priest as his disciple, let's see where that goes Edge is one of the best in the business as a villain whether unhinged or cold and calculating. An episode should be focused on him.

The Hart Foundation 

In 1997 the consummate good guy Bret Hart turned his back on the fans, particularly fans in the U.S. and looked towards his family to have his back. This led to an interesting spin on an old wrestling trope and time in the WWF. Laying the groundwork for what would become the attitude era,  the Hart Foundation were revered around the world and treated like heroes. Once they hit arenas in the U.S. hate may have been an understatement.

From Spring of '97 to November when Hart left the WWF. There was no one bigger heat magnet than him. Spewing all that was wrong with America, and all that was right around the rest of the world.

Hart had entertaining feuds and matches with Stone Cold, HBK, and Undertaker during this time. The concept of his heel villain was briefly touched on in the Wrestling With Shadows doc, but it deserves a full episode.

Raven

For whatever reason WWE has yet to fully acknowledge what ECW bought to the business. Hell ECW was the catalyst or the pilot run for content that would inspire the attitude era.

Mentioned in The Hollywood Hogan season 1 episode of EVIL, the 90's was about grunge and counter culture. No one was the epitome of that more than Raven.

Like his mentor Jake The Snake he talked low, at times barely audible. He spoke very Poetic and often held roles as a cult leader  in a variety of promotions. Raven often came off as misunderstood or maybe just a guy really good at mind games to break down his enemies.

He had classic deep long term storytelling feuds with Sandman and Tommy Dreamer in ECW. While in WCW land he had underrated yet classic feuds with Chris Benoit and DDP.

One of the smartest minds in wrestling, Raven should be the focus of an episode on how he developed his character and made him so hated in his career.

Bayley

From her NXT debut in 2012 to her main roster run in 2019, Bayley was the happy go lucky always smiling wrestling personality. Giving out hugs to fans in the front row she was essentially a modern female version of Hulk Hogan with his say your prayers and eat your vitamins act. Towards the end of 2019, Bayley shockingly turned heel attacking Becky Lynch. She later dashed fans hopes when she took a axe to her trademark inflatable entrance figures.

Soon after she garnered much success being more overbearing, brash, and in fans faces. Needless to say she morped into a Karen. Herself and Sasha Banks were key mvp'ss of the roster who kept programming entertaining during the height of the pandemic with no fans in attendance. An in depth look at what made Bayley tick during her heel turn deserves discussion.

Ted Dibiase 

1980's Rock 'n Wrestling era, the decade was full of self-indulgence, excessiveness, and capitalism at it's finest. Of course the WWF bought into how the world was turning at the time and created The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase. A man who had no problem flashing his wealth and letting everyone know money can buy anything.

When you talk about pro wrestlers who should have been world champions, Ted Dibiase is top 5 in my opinion. He was the perfect foil to "superheroes" like Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan. His cackling laugh, his self curated million dollar championship, and paying fans off for certain tasks to prove his point of everyone has a price made him a hated figure in wrestling. Dibiase deserves more credit for the Million Dollar Man persona and an episode on him would be more than worth the price. 

The New Day

Around 2013 early 2014 time-frame, Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, and Big E were floundering within the WWE ecosystem. Legend has it having no real direction or purpose, the three decided to become a unit and convince Mcmahon and company to give them a chance.

They debuted later in 2014 as overly cheerful, joyful, guys who preached the power of positivity. The gimmick was stereotypical with its church choir vignettes and wasn't a fit for the mid-2010's environment. As such fans slowly turned them boo and started chanting "New Day Sucks".

Soon The New Day embraced it and turned heel. Cranking everything up and being over the top made people despise them even more. They're over the top celebration dances for winning the tag team championship at Summerslam 2015 is such a golden moment in my opinion.

The heel turn soon led to fans responding well to them, causing great success and becoming favorites that they eventually became faces in early-mid 2016 and have become even more popular since then.

It would be funny and insightful to hear their original plans for the group. When they realized it wasn't clicking and who made the call to turn them heel and flip things around on the audience.