WWE RAW Superstar Alicia Fox Reveals That Vince McMahon Influenced Her "Crazy" Heel Persona
Alicia Fox recently returned to in-ring action on Raw, and during a new interview she reveals that the inspiration for her somewhat "out there" character came from Vince McMahon himself. More past the jump...
When WWE is struggling to come up with a new gimmick for a female Superstar, they're default setting is usually just to make her crazy/wild/unpredictable, and that's exactly what happened to Alicia Fox - except, Foxy made the best of the situation and ended up being pretty damn awesome.
During an interview with Void, the perennially underutilized Raw Superstar revealed that it was actually Vince McMahon himself who urged her to completely lose it during that now infamous segment a couple of years ago when she destroyed the announce desk:
"We’ve been reintroducing the character. I’ve been bullying people. It’s really fun to play the bad guy, the coward. I get the crowd riled up, throw drinks at them [laughs].
It started in one match, where they told me just to throw a fit. [WWE Executive] Vince [McMahon] told me to just go crazy, tear things up, knock the announcer’s hat off his head." "Throw iPads in water. So after my match, I didn’t know how it was going to go, but I just did it. And the crowd really reacted. It was this whole mood swing. It really worked."
It did work, but it's a shame WWE didn't capitalize on the reaction at the time. Hopefully Alicia can build some more momentum now that she's back in the mix on the red brand.