Which is what makes this even more lolworthy.
I never been much of a TNA guy, but I give them their due here. They were doing shyt with the women in the early to mid 2000's that WWE fans had to practically revolt against the company for. They had a thriving women's division with both singles and tag titles, while WWE today has barely featured their main roster women's titles (Bliss hasn't defended hers in MONTHS) and they're still hemming and hawing about tag belts. And TNA did their thing without patting themsleves on the back constantly, like you said. Then to have WWE patting themselves on the back while, if this rumor is to be believed, planning to push not talent but their Chief Brand Officer to the forefront is so ridiculous you kind of have to laugh at the situation.
You have to feel for the current Women's roster. I think a lot of them really bought into the idea that they were at the forefront of this revolution and to an extent, they are. But in recent months, their time is getting cut more and more, their pushes are being halted, and now they could potentially lose their spotlight to a former UFC fighter and their boss. That sucks.
We harp on Sasha a lot, but honestly, I think the female roster over all is incredibly strong in terms of potential mainstream appeal. So far, the only outlet for that for the women is Total Divas, which is cool, but they could definitely extend beyond the reality TV bubble.
Sasha can go just about anywhere, but specifically, she can appeal to urban audiences. I could totally see Becky and Charlotte working the talk show circuit (The View, Ellen, etc.). Ember Moon could have her own segment on UUDD and appeal to the gamer/nerd crowd. Bliss could make small appearances on TV shows. Asuka could be a big star for the Japanese audience. And so on.
The varying looks and personalities in the womens division right now arguably give them more potential mainstream appeal than the men. However, WWE doesn't seem to want to get behind them in that way.
Stephanie is EASILY the most over heel in the business, Queen has most you marks thinking her TV character is a shoot
This makes sense from business standpoint also, she can work the mic which Rousey can’t. The mainstream audience laughs at the current women’s roster so you don’t want her to come and work with a scrub in her first play fighting feud.
She puts the company over.
U stay exaggerating Sasha run on da main roster.
Charlotte and Bayley was getting WAAAAY mo cheers than Sasha.
All the heat Stephanie has in this thread is exactly why she’s in a top program
and she's in the top spot because she's the ONLY personality with heat and is the only woman that's over
She was continuously booed out the building while playing a heel, that’s called being over, you’re even calling her a bytch as a shoot
It's a joke, Bed Wench Banks was coming out to CDQ few weeks after her main roster debut
Much more interesting than bytching about Roman for 4 years str8A 12 page thread about women’s wrestling, with long lengthy passionate replies
2018 brehs. 2018..
Every fukking time.......I think Meltzer embellishes certain shyt to get people riled up at this point. And it works.
When AJ Lee was main eventing, shooting, and bringing in bigger main event ratings than the Rebel, everyone cared too. But they threw it all away to push that Nikki bullshyt...and then it took the near 5 star Sasha/Becky and Sasha/Bayley matches to get every thing back right.I guess the womens revolution did it’s job though because nikkas genuinely seem invested ^^^
So it’s payed off. Years prior not a single person would care..
I gotta give WWE it’s credit
When AJ Lee was main eventing, shooting, and bringing in bigger main event ratings than the Rebel, everyone cared too. But they threw it all away to push that Nikki bullshyt...and then it took the near 5 star Sasha/Becky and Sasha/Bayley matches to get every thing back right.
Whatever you think the justication was in your head..people watched her and she even destroyed them on the mic and had Lawler bytching and crying LIVE on commentary.AJ had computers putin for a totally different reason..
She had that barely legal thing going and everyone simply wanted to fukk her..
but now, you nikkas having head in depth back and forth's about these chicks position on the card and shyt. nikkas genuinely seem invested..
IDK mane... I feel like they deserve some credit. They've presented these women in a way that actually has dudes giving a fukk..
Well when Roman matches are praised and the reaction here to any top female worker is "its just female wrestling" that shows just how stupid some of your peers are around here. Some of those hicks who love to kiss the Asses of Austin and Michaels who are outright Sasha Banks marks look dumber by the day. Poor b*stards be getting hyped over Cena and Roman matches....scust. ill take watching Toni Storm over Roman Reigns any fukking day of the week. fukk the main event of WM 34. After the Asuka match, might turn that garbage off.I think people who dislike a match like say Asuka/Sasha from a couple weeks ago are just not interested in the same type of wrestling I am. I like a match to tell a story, the performers to work their asses off, selling and for the moves and holds to be a little stiff, hard hitting. I don't care if a dive gets screwed up, that means nothing to me.
A guy from the cruiserweight division can go do a complete 1080 flip into a fukking handspring elbow drop and I couldn't care less if the performers are just doing "moves" for the sake of it.
If anyone saw how she kidnapped the whole brie and Nikki thing through burial.
Then they know tho to be real.
Art Barr