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Post by FUNK_US/BRODUS on Aug 19, 2011 5:04:19 GMT -5
There was something oddly genuine and touching about watching her celebrate winning the Womens title. She looked happier than a lot of guys who win the WWE title.
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Post by Free Hat on Aug 19, 2011 6:43:40 GMT -5
At no point was she ever "good." She made a few noticeable improvements in her ring work and suddenly everyone started talking about her like she was Lou f***ing Thesz, as is usually what happens with the Divas. The company desperately wanted to make her the next Trish, but since she didn't possess anything close to resembling Trish's natural charisma, she only became moderately over. At the time I thought it was ridiculous, because just going by the crowd reactions, Mickie James was the most over woman on the roster. But for whatever reason, they insisted on pushing Candice as the face of the division, and it just didn't work.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 6:55:57 GMT -5
I liked her, I just couldn't stand when she'd do that twirl and Lawler's eyes would bug out and he'd start chanting "Go Daddy! Go Daddy!"
Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 7:36:23 GMT -5
Raise your hands up Raise your hands up Raise your hands up Raise your hands up
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 19, 2011 7:52:27 GMT -5
Candice is among my favourite divas. I completely invested in her rise to the women's title. I was a total mark for her!
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Post by s l i k on Aug 19, 2011 8:11:01 GMT -5
I misread the title of the this thread as "Candace Bergen" and was very confused to what Murphy Brown was doing with the 'E.
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Post by Ryushinku on Aug 19, 2011 8:27:39 GMT -5
Most of her WWE career was just like any other model-turned-'wrestler'.
But credit is due, for those few months in 2007 she put in the extra effort behind the scenes and turned into a pretty passable wrestler.
The injury against Beth is usually seen as 'the end', but it was when she came back in early 2008 that she immediately injured herself even worse and that was the definite end of things.
For that period in 2007 though, she was worth the push and could've improved further.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Aug 19, 2011 8:55:11 GMT -5
I liked her, I just couldn't stand when she'd do that twirl and Lawler's eyes would bug out and he'd start chanting "Go Daddy! Go Daddy!" Ugh. I couldn't stand that either. I wasn't a huge fan of her, but she had a helluva lot more expression and desire to improve than some of the current divas (I'm looking at you, Kelly and Rosa).
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Post by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on Aug 19, 2011 9:19:20 GMT -5
The injury against Beth is usually seen as 'the end', but it was when she came back in early 2008 that she immediately injured herself even worse and that was the definite end of things. I have always blamed WWE for that as they rushed her back too soon because they panicked when Ashley got hurt. Candice then gets injured in a tag team match they didn't need to have or put her in to begin with. It was fine bringing her back to be Maria's tag partner, but they should have waited until Wrestlemania to allow her to get back into ring action to be more sure that the collarbone was healed.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Aug 19, 2011 9:37:42 GMT -5
Raise your hands up Raise your hands up Raise your hands up Raise your hands up ALL EYES ON AW AW AW AW AW AW AW AW AW AW A-A-A-A-ALL EYES ON (repeat ad nauseum)
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 19, 2011 10:15:01 GMT -5
She did have a lot of sex appeal and IMHO had one of the best racks in the WWE. And in the end isn't that all that really counts ;D
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Post by BitterAF on Aug 19, 2011 10:15:27 GMT -5
wouldhithard/10
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Post by PKO on Aug 19, 2011 10:41:21 GMT -5
Candice became one of my favourite divas. She could have just taken the eye-candy route but she worked at improving herself, spending her days off training on the indies (funny that this topic comes up just after Joey Ryan appearing on TV seeing as he trained her!). During her run in 2007 she had some geniunely good matches against Beth and Melina (some of my favourite divas matches ever) and her title run was the last time I got invested in a Women's title feud. I was so sad to see her injured in her 2/3 falls match (which funnily enough was one of her best matches up to that point). When she came back from injury she still had some good matches in her (her No Mercy match with Beth was good, as was a RAW match in January '09 and I saw footage of a houseshow match that was better than any diva match on TV at the time) but WWE seemed to have given up on her. I think it's a shame she got fired before she could debut on Smackdown because I think she could have gotten another good run there. It's weird to think she was drafted at the same time as Layla who was no-where near the performer she is today. So yeah, one of my favourite divas. Here's a pic from this past week: MILF-tastic.
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Post by dreidemy on Aug 19, 2011 13:57:16 GMT -5
I really like to see her on tv and I miss some moments like in GaB 2007 with Hardyz and Ron Simmons backstage She's get released and poor Justin Gabriel gets that awful theme on his FCW days
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Post by draus on Aug 19, 2011 14:10:53 GMT -5
Her music was so awful it make's Eve's sound like Metalingus in comparison. I think I remember that theme making me despise her character just a bit more than the average diva. That is how terrible it was.
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Post by The Ichi on Aug 19, 2011 14:31:21 GMT -5
I actually LIKED her theme music because you could at least tell it apart from other diva themes and didn't have lyrics that made her sound like a stripper. It was more of a female wrestler theme than a "and here's the tits and ass" theme. I liked Lita's for the same reason.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 19, 2011 15:25:12 GMT -5
You know what I'll always remember Candice for? Uh Oh, It's Magic. That storyline was genius. This is what I remember her for:
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Post by Mista T on Aug 19, 2011 16:29:40 GMT -5
One word. Softcore
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 19, 2011 16:37:15 GMT -5
You know what I'll always remember Candice for? Uh Oh, It's Magic. That storyline was genius. This is what I remember her for: That's when HHH got blown with his jeans on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 17:19:19 GMT -5
I actually kinda liked her back when she was a joke heel, but when she "improved" they pushed her way too fast, at the expense of every other woman wrestler who they had. The other thing was how they were trying to put her over as being so much prettier than everyone else, in spite of the fact she had a lot of obvious plastic surgery (way more than the traditional "implants and teeth straightening" like the other divas of her era).
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