Candice Michelle- What was your take on her?

[Unocal 76]

One of the Divas I've ridden the roller coaster with in a variety if ways as a fan is Candice Michelle- had her flaws, but a variety of positives.

Won't deny that she wasn't exactly the greatest in the ring at times, But she was capable at times in 2007 and was a decent Women's champ (better than some recent Diva champs we've had) before her 2007 injury sent her down an in-ring road to ruin.

But she was over at times and did have serious sex appeal. (In 2006-2007, before the PG stuff kicked in and the Divas still had blazing-hot sex appeal, she was caliente!)

One of the handful of Divas that posed for Playboy- and definitely one you couldn't blame them for wanting!

Two questions:

1. What did you make of her?

2. What if she never hurt her collarbone at No Mercy '07? She was on a hot streak that year and was improving.

[MichaelMartini]

I never thought she was all that attractive. Not a very good talker or worker.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

She wasn't really anything special, but she might have got somewhere if she had never sustained that injury.

The fact that she reinjured it shortly after returning did not help her at all, and she never got over it.

[Essential1]

Hot but got annoying quite fast.

[Ryushinku]

Started terrible, remained terrible for a good long while, seemed to be getting better and was hopeful it might be another Trish situation.

Then got that injury and never got that mojo back, returning to being terrible and ending up sticking to the modelling (fair enough really).

[Bam Neeley]

Around the time before her injury I thought she was slowly improving and I thought she'd be a good worker one day.

After the injury it all got much worse. And somewhere along the way something happened to her face.

And..

AW AW AW AW AW AW AW AW AW AW

[Deleted]

At first she was pretty bad, but then she started to get pretty decent. Then she got injured repeatedly and by the time she came back for any real length of time she was awful.

[Codebreaker]

I only caught the beginning of her run, and I didn't really pay much attention to her. My friend had a big crush on her though.

I will say though, about a month ago I got No Mercy 2008 on DVD, and I believe it had her vs. Beth on it - I was pleasantly surprised. Fun little match IIRC.

[Savage Gambino]

She was good for what she was, as a Diva Search contestant-turned post-Attitude eye candy. I liked her stuff with Torrie and Victoria, kinda drifted off during her face turn, but she was never in contention for my favorite Diva or anything.

Never saw what people saw in her though. I mean, she was on her way to capable, but I always felt the "next Trish Stratus" talk was jumping the gun.

[buttersock]

HOT! With capital H, O, and T. However, her voice kills some of her hotness whenever she talks.

[W?Y]

She was good-looking, but I really appreciated that she actually wanted to improve instead of coasting on limited wrestling ability.

[BitterAF]

Would over and over again

[The Doctor]

She is one of my favourite Divas. Because she actually made me care. When she first appeared she was not much beyond just another attractive model. But somewhere along the line she really started to pick up as a character. I found myself genuinely interested in her matches. She made me a fan. I remember surprising myself by how much I marked when she won the Women's title.

That's when I realised she had something special about her. To go from being largely uninterested in her to absolutely invested shows she must have had something more than just good looks.

[That Mickie Fan]

I really liked her. She was one of the fastest improving models

[Classy Lady]

She went from terrible to astonishingly mediocre back to terrible and at the time somehow had this huge following for it.

All of my hate.

[Celgress]

Hot, charismatic, a good talker, but passable in the ring at best.

On a side note I'll never forget that 'Magic Wand' storyline involving her, Edge & your CAW on an edition of Smackdown v. Raw. Damn, that whole thing was mondo messed up.

[JDviant]

I liked her well enough.

[Sephiroth]

Definitey hot and knew how to turn on the sexiness in her photo's and mic work. But her ring work left a lot to be desired-she should have been like Stacy Kielber or Tori Wilson; a manager/arm candy for the most part and only gotten in the ring for special, multi-person matches where others could help cover for her. Also hated her second theme music.

[SAJ Forth]

I felt like they pushed her way too soon to the Womens Championship. Most of the hate came from her doing so.

[odor31]

I thought she improved a lot in her chase for the title. She really had me like watching the Divas wrestle. That lead up to Candice/Beth was amazing. She wasn't the same after her injury. She deserves a lot more praise --- plus her entrance was hypnotizing.