thoughts about Je'Von Evans that i was gonna make a QRT thread but now it's a blog

 

So for those who aren't aware, Je'Von Evans is an EXTREMELY talented 21 year old wrestler who just got signed on to RAW after being on NXT for a while. I've watched him since he was known as Jay Malachi on the independent circuit. I know, in my heart, that WWE investing in its future should include putting time and effort into building Je'Von as one of the next big things. He's young, sure, but at this point the youngest person to ever become WWE world champion is still Randy Orton at 24. Give Je'Von three years of upward momentum, I think he could achieve similar success.

I think Randy would be very supportive of Je'Von taking his title as the youngest ever world champion.

 "WWE view Je'Von Evans as a 'star' but not a franchise player." Now, let's take into account that the only source on this is the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, which has a bit of an iffy track record reporting on behind-the-scenes goings on at WWE. But if this is genuinely the sentiment going around WWE creative... that's ridiculous.

When I read that sentence, I assume it means that they think Je'Von is incredibly talented, but not marketable, and my gut reaction is that I think that's probably just racist. Je'Von has a cool look. He's charismatic. He's incredible in the ring. All you need is to figure out a catchphrase that looks better on a shirt than the bouncey boy thing, give him the Jey Uso marketing package, and you're golden. WWE has time and again made the blandest, boring looking white men extremely marketable. I look at Je'Von Evans and I think, that guy's cool. I think a lot of kids would find him cool. They made a damn 6 7 shirt for him, they KNOW kids think he's cool.

The issue is actually not the 6 7 it's the BOUNCEYYYY.

So what's the problem? You can drape Jey Uso in black cultural aesthetics and market him to the moon and back, but you can't market an actual black man? What else could it be? I'm not backstage, I can't know what they're saying, I don't even know if the behind the scenes statement is true, but if it is... I'm sorry, I can't think of an explanation other than racism. And that's really, really sad, because I don't want WWE to waste Je'Von's potential. We'll have to wait and see, I guess, but man. I hope they do right by him.