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Post by Crimson on Aug 27, 2013 8:09:53 GMT -5
Not sure that Naomi and Natalya deserved to have AJ take that massive dump on them, but The Bellas (and Cameron, the Worst Human Being Alive) certainly did. Why's Cameron the worst human alive? (serious question)
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Aug 27, 2013 8:10:30 GMT -5
All it did was make every single one of her possible contenders look useless and awful. Great? AJ being booked above the women's division continues I guess. No idea how they get themselves out of it though, If anyone is being booked above the division, it's the cast of Total Divas. AJ's the one hyping up the division by telling them how important the title is and how meaningless reality shows are compared to wrestling. And she's going out and having matches for the divas title, while the Bellas, Natalya, and Funckadactyls are more concerned with feuding with each other. She's defended the belt against one person and spent the last half of that feud worrying about Dolph. AJ spends a majority of her time feuding with the male roster with brief little excursions against Kaitlyn. Total Divas have pretty much just replaced the women's division because A: They're all that's left and B: AJ is too big thanks to her booking to be involved with the lower lower card acts with the rest of the Divas.
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Post by BigWill on Aug 27, 2013 8:17:12 GMT -5
If anyone is being booked above the division, it's the cast of Total Divas. AJ's the one hyping up the division by telling them how important the title is and how meaningless reality shows are compared to wrestling. And she's going out and having matches for the divas title, while the Bellas, Natalya, and Funckadactyls are more concerned with feuding with each other. She's defended the belt against one person and spent the last half of that feud worrying about Dolph. AJ spends a majority of her time feuding with the male roster with brief little excursions against Kaitlyn. Total Divas have pretty much just replaced the women's division because A: They're all that's left and B: AJ is too big thanks to her booking to be involved with the lower lower card acts with the rest of the Divas. She's only been feuding with Kaitlyn because she's the only other diva fans care about. That's why they milked the Kaitlyn/Dolph thing because they knew once AJ moved on, no one was going to care about her feuding with any of the other divas. AJ's not too big, it's that the other divas are too small. Though I'll admit, it's not all their fault, as the WWE should be building up the rest of the division, instead of having them feuding just to promote their reality show. But at the same time, you can't just bring AJ down to a lower level, just because the other divas aren't as good.
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Post by Steveweiser on Aug 27, 2013 8:25:05 GMT -5
She also defended the title against Bayley, for the record...
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Aug 27, 2013 8:26:17 GMT -5
Not sure that Naomi and Natalya deserved to have AJ take that massive dump on them, but The Bellas (and Cameron, the Worst Human Being Alive) certainly did. Why's Cameron the worst human alive? (serious question) She is mind-bogglingly irritating. I can't see how any human being would want to be in the same room as her let alone friends with her. I hope it's an act, but this is the second reality show she's been featured on wherein she comes across as the most shallow, unlikeable person on earth. "Girl-bye!"
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Post by Yami Daimao on Aug 27, 2013 8:31:25 GMT -5
It's going to lead to AJ leading a group of disgruntled Divas vs the Total Divas with the big blowoff match happening at Survivor Series. It will be the storyline for the next season of Total Divas. And then one of the divas on AJ's side attacks her and reveals her "total divas shirt", maybe Layla. She's the 8th woman. Just go NWO with it. And then once every Diva has picked a side, Rosa wants in, only neither side wants her. "You take her." "No, that's ok, you take her." "But we have enough people, you take her." "What? You have one person less than us. You gotta take her.." "WE DON'T WANT HER!" Rosa:
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Post by Cronant on Aug 27, 2013 8:34:22 GMT -5
And then one of the divas on AJ's side attacks her and reveals her "total divas shirt", maybe Layla. She's the 8th woman. Just go NWO with it. And then once every Diva has picked a side, Rosa wants in, only neither side wants her. "You take her." "No, that's ok, you take her." "But we have enough people, you take her." "What? You have one person less than us. You gotta take her.." "WE DON'T WANT HER!" Rosa: And then Kaitlyn gets betrayed by both sides, in true Sting fashion.
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Post by corndog on Aug 27, 2013 8:35:08 GMT -5
I loved it when it first aired, but I am confused on what the WWE were trying to accomplish. If it was getting AJ over as a face, it was a great first step. It is nice to see AJ changing up her character as crazy AJ was getting stale.
But I still think it's hilarious when AJ marks talk about how great AJ is and that she is the best thing since Trish Stratus. There is a big difference here, Trish was in a much better division. Not only that, but AJ is the only diva booked to make you care(Kaitlyn had here cup of coffee in their fued). Everyone else is just an afterthought. This promo really couldn't have hit closer to home.
It doesn't make AJ the greatest thing since sliced bread, it's just the way WWE presents her and everyone else. If they allowed Awesome Kong and Sara Del Rey to actually wrestle in the division, she would look just as outclassed as the others.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 8:35:48 GMT -5
And then one of the divas on AJ's side attacks her and reveals her "total divas shirt", maybe Layla. She's the 8th woman. Just go NWO with it. And then once every Diva has picked a side, Rosa wants in, only neither side wants her. "You take her." "No, that's ok, you take her." "But we have enough people, you take her." "What? You have one person less than us. You gotta take her.." "WE DON'T WANT HER!" Rosa: AJ: "You want Rosa!" Nattie: "No, you want Rosa!" AJ: "You're LESBIAN for Rosa!" Nattie: "No, YOU'RE lesbian for Rosa!" *cuts to Rosa sitting on a chair in catering* Rosa: "No one's lesbian for Rosa..."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 8:38:32 GMT -5
Why's Cameron the worst human alive? (serious question) She is mind-bogglingly irritating. I can't see how any human being would want to be in the same room as her let alone friends with her. I hope it's an act, but this is the second reality show she's been featured on wherein she comes across as the most shallow, unlikeable person on earth. "Girl-bye!" True, but in all fairness, that Total Divas show makes everyone look annoying and petty. I mean, when John Cena is the least aggravating thing on your TV show, you're doing something wrong.
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Post by Cronant on Aug 27, 2013 8:39:41 GMT -5
Well John Cena is damn near Jesus Christ on that show.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Aug 27, 2013 8:43:59 GMT -5
Not sure that Naomi and Natalya deserved to have AJ take that massive dump on them, but The Bellas (and Cameron, the Worst Human Being Alive) certainly did. Why's Cameron the worst human alive? (serious question) Because Melina vs. Alicia Fox. And sometimes, the-bomb-dot-com.
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Post by Yami Daimao on Aug 27, 2013 8:50:12 GMT -5
Well John Cena is damn near Jesus Christ on that show. ...mission accomplished? I mean, what if this show is just a giant ploy to try to get a lot of Cena's haters to like him? Hell, before this showed even premiered most people were looking forward to Cena (chopping wood) the most. Think about it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 8:54:11 GMT -5
In the narrative, I believe we're supposed to boo her because she's a heel, but the crowd was cheering her... I think this was a case of WWE misjudging its audience. The live Raw audience is mostly made up of people who give no f***s about Total Divas and agrees with what AJ said. I thought the promo was awesome but now they need to really give some credibility to the face Divas.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 8:58:03 GMT -5
Oh - and the Bellas - they needed to shut up. I mean, yeah - talk a little smack sure, but they are so unfamiliar with pro wrestling still that they can't even function during a promo.
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Post by Cronant on Aug 27, 2013 8:58:35 GMT -5
Well I assume Natalya is meant to have a legit response eventually, but I don't think she can get it across in a promo. So she'll probably just make AJ tap out in 2 minutes in a tag match to 'prove her wrong'.
But nobody will remember that, really.
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Post by Grand Papillon "The Banker" on Aug 27, 2013 9:01:47 GMT -5
I loved it when it first aired, but I am confused on what the WWE were trying to accomplish. If it was getting AJ over as a face, it was a great first step. It is nice to see AJ changing up her character as crazy AJ was getting stale. But I still think it's hilarious when AJ marks talk about how great AJ is and that she is the best thing since Trish Stratus. There is a big difference here, Trish was in a much better division. Not only that, but AJ is the only diva booked to make you care(Kaitlyn had here cup of coffee in their fued). Everyone else is just an afterthought. This promo really couldn't have hit closer to home. It doesn't make AJ the greatest thing since sliced bread, it's just the way WWE presents her and everyone else. If they allowed Awesome Kong and Sara Del Rey to actually wrestle in the division, she would look just as outclassed as the others. 7 facts. 1. AJs program with Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn just had its blow-off match at Summerslam 2. Notice how Big E Langston wasn't anywhere near her 3. The content of the promo was seemingly substance vs. style which is the same theme as recent Daniel Bryan promos 4. Daniel Bryan and AJ Lee have undeniable chemistry together from their past pairing 5. Daniel Bryan is feuding with HHH 6. HHH is married to Stephanie 7. Stephanie and AJ have already had a somewhat recent promo where Stephanie was threatening to put AJ in her place. From this, I am sure you can guess which conclusion that I am drawing here.
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Post by sunnytaker on Aug 27, 2013 9:07:35 GMT -5
at first i expected nattie to be the one to get upset to set up a title match-especially after beating AJ recently. yet the camera kept going to the bellas screaming at aj to say it to their face (alex riley?). after all clearly their heels were not designed to allow them to walk up any kind of slope to get at her themselves.but wait- brie had her wrestling boots on! ah but that would be a fair fight and bella twins don't play that. i suppose it could go back to the random hallway encounter several weeks ago where aj blew the bellas off after they made their usual catty comments. but still odd. at least aj has shown she hasn;t lost her alignment of "Kane"
kinda reminded me of those spoof show tough guys where they start yelling at someone then tell their friend "grab my arm". friend light grips their arm "you're lucky my friend here is holding me back or i'd take you out right now!"
myabe it'll be a triple threat match at NoC- heel brie vs face Nattie vs "kane" AJ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 9:07:53 GMT -5
I enjoyed how AJ was making her points, and the useless idiots at ringside were yelling without mics like a bunch of ineffective loudmouth nothings.
Natalya sold it like any wrestler would and should sell it - facial expressions and obvious anger. The Bellas and Eva were yelling like skanks in a club who want attention.
They made AJ's point better than AJ did. And AJ performed a verbal Kennedy assassination on them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 9:08:27 GMT -5
Just saw this on YouTube (as much as I hate worked shoots, I'm always interested in seeing them in a car wreck kind of way).
I will say two things about it. One, the Bella Twins shouting over half of it was grating. Those two cannot act. Even in the reality show when they are supposed to be playing themselves it looks staged. Last night's "reactions" to the promo came off incredibly forced and I'm not sure whether they knew that they were screaming over some of it.
Secondly, worked shoots in wrestling suck. They always have, they always will. CM Punk probably did it the best because as much as he "broke the fourth wall" he still tried to mix it with kayfabe at the same time (talked about leaving with the title, hyped up his match with Cena, etc). Last night made no sense from any perspective. The WWE is a world that likes to portray HHH as being stronger/tougher than Brock Lesnar. Anyone with a mic can "shoot" on how ridiculous that is. There is a lot of ridiculous things that happen in wrestling. But you don't expose them on TV for no reason. It just makes everyone look bad, including AJ if/when she loses to one or more of the "model rejects" she insulted.
It is surprising to me that the WWE is rehashing the corrupt authority figure character again AND doing Russo-like worked shoots, and it is being praised. I guess the seven year rule does make sense.
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