Lance Storm on Diva Respect

[Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone]

I don't know if this was posted yet since lance posted it yesterday, but I don't think it has.

www.stormwrestling.com/010107.html

It's an excellent read I think. He is basically talking about the lack of respect the divas get from WWE, and he ridicules some specific comments from Michael Cole in particular.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

I'm all for bashing the divas (Well, some of them anyway) but Lance is right. Its one thing for JR to make a couple "Shoot" comments when someone like Miss Jackie is f'ing up everything left and right in one match, but, Michael Cole is a f***ing tool and I have never liked him in the least. f***head

[Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone]

godz said:

I'm all for bashing the divas (Well, some of them anyway) but Lance is right. Its one thing for JR to make a couple "Shoot" comments when someone like Miss Jackie is f'ing up everything left and right in one match, but, Michael Cole is a f***ing tool and I have never liked him in the least. hughead

Yep, that's exactly right. He admits that many of the divas are bad wrestlers, but he rightfully thinks they deserve some respect at least. I think that Jerry Lawler is just as bad as Michael Cole too. Whereas Cole basically dismisses everything the divas do as being pointless, Jerry Lawler usually ignores everything the divas do in favor of making sex comments. Like Mickie and Victoria could go out there and put on a 5 star match (I'm just being hypothetic here), and Lawler would completely no-sell it and point out "Look JR, you can see some cleavage sorta!"

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And once again, Lance hits the nail on the head. A number of these women are treated as if they all have no ability and are living units of T&A, even though quite a number of them are fine atheletes and in-ring performers. I personally prefer the women in the athletic aspect--as it IS wrestling. Appearance comes as a bonus in my mind. It's a fine thing, but by itself is worthless to my mind(and these combinations and balances help determine which women I do and do not mark for). So anyway, I fully agree with Lance's statements.

[Libertine]

Lance Storm says "LOL". Oh dear.

[Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone]

blindgunfighter said:

Lance Storm says "LOL". Oh dear.

Yeah, Lance says LOL quite a bit. We've come to the conclusion that it means "Lancing Out Loud". ;D

And I always totally agree with Lance's various commenatries too. He's one of the few wrestlers that I would truly love to meet and shake hands with.

[MGH]

but Cole is supposed to be a baby face not to mention that fact that there are a bunch of WWE Divas who are likely tougher and certainly better workers than he is.

I have no doubt that THIS is true.

[algertman]

Stratus there Lance, not Status

but a interesting read

[Andrew is Good]

Divas generally get no respect, but around the net anyway, a lot of them don't get respect. I remember in the post when everyone was saying what their favourite diva moment in which they got the crap kicked out of them, and I joked that people seemed to be into the women beating here. People tried to defend themselves by saying, it's just the model type women that they're mocking, but take a girl like Ashley who's gotten tons of injuries, but got back up.

One of the most bothersome things I've seen (and it wasn't AS bad here as it was elsewhere, where it was just pathetic) that the girls who would get injured would get made fun of, and people would try to think of the good things that come from people getting injured. But yeah, I loved this post, because I generally am a big fan of respecting the workers, and I feel a lot of the times they don't get any.

[Brick Killed a Guy]

I'll be honest, I've never really paid attention to Cole's comments about diva wrestling (then again, I just space out until JBL starts talking), but I'd say King is worse than Cole. It'd be great if one day the divas gave Lawler a beatdown in the middle of the ring. And by beatdown, I don't mean him smiling saying "I got wood and I'm enjoying this". I mean beatdown as in "I'm busted open and knocked out"

Rant over.

[Porky's Butthole]

Lance needs to be a road agent. Period.

[Cyno]

Once again, I agree a lot with what Lance has to say. I love reading his commentaries (though it wouldn't hurt for him or someone else to proofread before posting them >_>.

lenny said:

Yep, that's exactly right. He admits that many of the divas are bad wrestlers, but he rightfully thinks they deserve some respect at least. I think that Jerry Lawler is just as bad as Michael Cole too. Whereas Cole basically dismisses everything the divas do as being pointless, Jerry Lawler usually ignores everything the divas do in favor of making sex comments. Like Mickie and Victoria could go out there and put on a 5 star match (I'm just being hypothetic here), and Lawler would completely no-sell it and point out "Look JR, you can see some cleavage sorta!"

The thing with Lawler is that it's "in character" for him as the pervy color commentator to just go "Puppies!" or otherwise ignore the match in favor of the boobies. So it's more forgivable, especially if JR's there to say "Come on King! These ladies are putting on a real slobberknocker!" or something similar. Cole's the face straight play-by-play guy, so there's really no excuse for him, except him sucking at commentary.

[Rorschach]

I remember Lawler catching a beatdown of sorts frm the DIVAS maybe a year or two ago.....I think it ended with Vickie kicking him square in the ol' Bob and Tom's.....

And I marked the hell out for it, too.


Great article from Storm, and I agree with everything that's been said here so far.

[seanwalsh]

karnage70 said:

I remember Lawler catching a beatdown of sorts frm the DIVAS maybe a year or two ago.....I think it ended with Vickie kicking him square in the ol' Bob and Tom's.....

And I marked the hell out for it, too.

That was during some pointless bikini contest. Victoria beat the crap out of everyone, I thought, and then introduced her foot to Lawler's groin.

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To me the Divas should either just get naked or go away.

I don't need to see some half star match between two broads for no apparent reason.

Just have them do bra and panty matches, swimsuit competitions and all that other crap. Having them wrestle a standard match is pointless.

[Rorschach]

seanwalsh said:

karnage70 said:

I remember Lawler catching a beatdown of sorts frm the DIVAS maybe a year or two ago.....I think it ended with Vickie kicking him square in the ol' Bob and Tom's.....

And I marked the hell out for it, too.

That was during some pointless bikini contest. Victoria beat the crap out of everyone, I thought, and then introduced her foot to Lawler's groin.

Yeah, that was it. Vickie saves the day yet again! I thought she also hit the Widows Peak or a DDT on ol Jerry too.....could be wrong on that though.

And for brentreznor......if you've only seen most WWE DIVA matches, I could see you saying that. But watch some tapes from Japanese womens' wrestling.....it'll give you a different perspective on how women can be utilized in wrestling.

And regardless, as Storm says, they DO try, and most of them ARE pretty athletic.

[Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone]

seanwalsh said:

karnage70 said:

I remember Lawler catching a beatdown of sorts frm the DIVAS maybe a year or two ago.....I think it ended with Vickie kicking him square in the ol' Bob and Tom's.....

And I marked the hell out for it, too.

That was during some pointless bikini contest. Victoria beat the crap out of everyone, I thought, and then introduced her foot to Lawler's groin.

Yeah, that's pretty well represented in her entrance video:
www.wwe.com/content/media/video/superstars/victoria/entrance/victoriaentvid

[Bub (BLM)]

Storm vs. Cole: BOOK IT. ;D