Surprised the Bella's took the L at Mania and the L on this RAW considering what huge draws they are, but oh well. Glad Naomi got the pin instead of just Bella's/AJ/Paige alternating. AJ wearing Bayley's shirt <3.
Best part of the match was The Bellas working the crowd and getting that legendary heat. :banderas Can't recall any other diva getting bombarded with that much heat in a while. Just shows how effective they are as heels and also reaffirmed why they are among the greatest heels of all time.
The match itself was good, too. They were all serviceable, yes including AJ (even though she botched Nikki's Alabama Slam). I have little complaints.
Best part of the match was The Bellas working the crowd and getting that legendary heat. :banderas Can't recall any other diva getting bombarded with that much heat in a while. Just shows how effective they are as heels and also reaffirmed why they are among the greatest heels of all time.
This thread will go south when Stern arrives and tells us the Bella's should have won because they draw, and AJ buried the division somehow. Let us rejoice until then.
I'm happy the crowd went through all the divas with "lets go ___" chants, and "lets go divas" and all of them got some time.
It was solid. Natalya with a solid German Suplex on Paige. Nikki Bella with a decent looking slam (powerbomb?) on Naomi. And the match finished with a finisher (a crappy finisher but a finisher).
I saw a dreadful basic Divas tag match. The only difference: 15 minutes (or whatever) instead of 3.
Paige is overrated, AJ doesn't give a fuck, Naomi is bland and a poor man's Jacqueline and the Bellas just take place. I only care about Nattie, but the WWE obviously doesn't.
Oh look, it's another guy bashing the divas just to sound cool.
Let me correct you by saying the divas match was nowhere near being the worst match of the night. All girls really delivered and actually got the crowd interested if you pay attention. In fact, the two matches that followed were the shittiest matches of the night -- YES, I'm including the main-event.
That was easily the best divas match I've seen in ages. It was no AE/Ruthless aggression era type of match. But considering the shit spoon fed to us for ages.. That was a breath of fresh air.
On top of that, a post WM crowd didn't shit on it. A true sign of heading in the right direction.
You are right it was no Attitude Era/Ruthless agression era match. And by that I mean it didn't last 8 minutes while the fans chanted "We want puppies" and "HLA". Which was the description of 90% of the women's matches from that era, everyone just remembers the 10 times it was better.
Frankly the match tonight, while I admit objectively was not a 5-star match was definitely the best the Divas have been in a while. And the most the fans have been into a Divas match in a long time.
But frankly, tonights match would have been good for a AE/RA era Divas match, especially compared to the TV matches of the time. People over romanticize the Divas matches of the 90's and 2000's. They aren't as far removed from WWE Divas matches of today as people let nostalga paint them as.
At least even at their worst today no one chants for their puppies or thinks "The women are in the ring... I WANT HLA".
I mean, it wasn't anything amazing but I didn't think it was bad.
Can I also say that with every new match I see her wrestle I become a bigger fan of Nikki. Shes gotten so much better and has really won me over these last few months.
Yeah that had to be an exaggeration. Lesnars segment was honestly the only good segment of raw today. Also I don't think anyone has ever said that Paige is a better wrestler or bigger draw than Lesnar.
My biggest issue with the Bellas is that they stall their matches to the point where it takes away. Little more back and forth wouldn't hurt, we get the whole "twin dominance" shtick.
They've repeated this formula a lot recently. Nikki is designed to be a heel and you can totally tell Brie should be a face -- an accurate representation of their spouses LOL.
I have to watch the replay when I got home, but the crowd was bonkers during the divas match. I don't know how it came off on tv, but there were some ridiculous chants. My God. "You suck Cena, you suck Bryan, you suck Tyson, you suck Uso."
But then the mature people chanted let's go divas.
Paige did get the loudest diva pop.
I have to watch the replay when I got home, but the crowd was bonkers during the divas match. I don't know how it came off on tv, but there were some ridiculous chants. My God. "You suck Cena, you suck Bryan, you suck Tyson, you suck Uso."
But then the mature people chanted let's go divas. Paige did get the loudest diva pop.
Thank you for verifying what I have been saying. Apparently some just don't want to believe it for whatever reason.
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