Alicia Fox speaks about coming to terms with the way she was treated in WWE and understanding that nostalgia plays a strong factor in the fans' enjoyment of the product.
Alicia Fox has been slowly getting back into the world of wrestling. In doing so, she has been reflecting on her time in WWE. Recently, while speaking to Elijah Burke on The Pope’s Point of View podcast, Fox said that she had a better understanding of why she was treated the way she wasn't WWE and reflected on "that particular company" doing blackface.
"We are independent contractors. They borrow our bodies," she said. "More importantly, y'all are wrestlers, either trying to go to the machine or most of us are trying to still run so far away from it. The thing is, is like they're not the only machine in town and they haven't been. So what is the nostalgia about? Because human nature, by its nature, can experience nostalgia for the past. No wonder the wrestling fans are like, 'Oh my god, wrestling!' no matter where they are.
"As long as that particular company has been doing blackface and our bosses have been doing these characters, it makes sense to me now why they were treating me like this," she added." For me, I didn’t study the history of wrestling going forward. I lived that experience linearly. I did what they told me to do, I drove those hours. I was on a tour bus with my fiancé being driven around. I also wasn’t bringing camera crews in to exploit my friends on an already exploited agreement."
Fox is now going by the name of Vix Crow on the independent circuit and has been focusing on Booker T's Reality of Wrestling as her first landing spot.
Fans can see what she has to say about returning to wrestling at this link.
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