This is a good move. This feud between AJ Lee and Paige probably should have been over by now. How can you keep it going another few weeks? Inserting another supporting player would help. And that is what they did. It isn't great creative development, but it can help to extend things.
Do not make too much of this new duo. Will they end up like Layla and Michelle McCool? Probably not. Layla was a periphery diva being paired with a centerpiece struggling to get over. Alicia Fox is a credible jobber these days that is being paired with another credible jobber. Alicia Fox was actually the top heel credible jobber a few months ago prior to turning Paige heel. Go back to heel Beth Phoenix and Natalya teaming up a couple years ago. They treated it like it would be some real angle at first, but soon deflated it. The pairing seemed to be getting phased down even before Beth Phoenix suffered an injury during that title run. That is the kind of thing I would expect with Paige and Alicia Fox.
Overall, how is the feud between Paige and AJ Lee going? Even with the addition of Alicia Fox, this still feels like a dry feud. I do not feel there is anywhere else to really go with this story. I have said before that I never really bought Paige and AJ as friends, but I will move on from that. Is there potential to keep that story interesting with the addition of Alicia Fox? Yeah. Do I think the WWE will build on that story? No. The best creative interest in this feud seems to have been in the last few months. This is pretty much the point where they need to just wrap this feud up.
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