Just having a good move set doesn’t make you a good wrestler.
You need to connect with the crowd, have good timing, and have a character to be anything other than a spot monkey.
The problem most of the female wrestlers have is they have zero connection with the crowd. The most of the work they do is on Total Diva’s, which has very little cross-over appeal to the kinds of people who are part of the live audience.
The other problem is that WWE simply doesn’t care about the Diva’s, and so, neither does the crowd. No point getting invested in something that is going no where.
10 years ago we had trish, victoria, litA, molly, stacy keibler, torrie wilson. Who were over with the audience. The audience reacted to the girls because they were presented as something to see.
Since trish and lita left the girls were treated as “breather segments” so the audience can catch their breath.
The girls who could work like beth, mickie, michelle mccool, maryse, eve, melina…were also treated with more respect by the booking team.
Once those girls left and wwe went full on pg the girls got toned down so we didn’t get bra and panties or bikini beach water fights.
So yes the girls now are treated as after thoughts.
I did love how Summer Rae in 15 seconds drew more heat than any heels tonight. That is what heel divas should be.
What’s with Mark Henry jobbing again? Either we’re getting Show/Rusev, with Show trying to avenge Henry, or Big Show goes heel for the millionth time, and turns on Henry.
Overall Naomi isn’t that good. People get suped because she’s athletic, but her matches are subpar and she can’t talk. All she has going for her is a fatty.
Emma was over, but Bayley is taking her spot. Gimmicks are too similar and Bayley’s connection to the crowd is much stronger.
Don’t get me started on Alicia Fox, she had her chance and failed miserably.
Truth be told, only AJ and Paige are interesting. Nattie, Summer and Layla can work and they do it well enough to get over. I’m sorry to say, but the rest of the main roster Divas are just T&A status right now.
You guys have lowered your standards to the point where someone thought the Bella’s should actually be booked over Paige and AJ and Alicia Fox was considered good. It’s to the point where if Nikki has a showing that doesn’t absolutely suck, she’s suddenly “good”.
Again, there’s not enough talent to make a Divas tag division work outside on bringing the NXT talent up to the main roster.
Remember Cesaro trying to join the authority? Wtf happened with that?
Oh and alicia did not fail, like everything in wwe it was dropped for no reason.
Three weeks of build and then she just turns into a regular heel diva who beat down nikki, then nothing again.
Specifically for the divas they are held back and treated like they don’t matter. At least Ryder can get a job match on raw/sd from time to time.
All this tv time, and still guys won’t be on tv for weeks and weeks
Look at how hhh books the divas in nxt. He makes the divas a big part of the show. The main roster divas are treated like stars and really get put in a spotlight.
Really it’s vince and dunn who are sexist assholes.
Even with all the NXT girls there are not enough talent to support a real tag division.
This is all a moot point though, Divas as always do not matter to anyone that matters. More to this addressed point, if they cant book a men’s tag team division and lets be honest here, if you put a male wrestler against a female wrestler then 10 of 10 times the male wrestler is better at his job.
If they cannot book a men’s tag division, do you really want to see the TNA esque clusterfuck that a wwe divas tag division would be?
So moving on from this circle jerk, are the Ascension going to get over or just tread water until an inevitable break up sometime next year?