#DivaAddition

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From Merriam-Webster:

revolution

noun rev·o·lu·tion \ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən\

2

a :  a sudden, radical, or complete change

d :  a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something :  a change of paradigm <the Copernican revolution>

I want to know who the Einstein is that decided that the 9-diva, 3-team elimination tag match should go on right after the Seth Rollins-John Cena World and U.S. Championship match at SummerSlam. If they were really serious about getting the divas over, they would have realized that it was going be almost impossible for the divas to follow that. The next night, Team PCB appeared on MizTV. Because everyone knows that when you want to get something over, you get The Miz involved. The segment was a major flop. Charlotte relied on her family tree to get over. Becky ranted like a lunatic. Paige cut a John Cena promo. She yelled about how it was their time and the era of the female athlete. She said the women were just as good as the men in WWE. The promo went nowhere and took forever to get there.

Then Team Bella came out. Brie rambled, Alicia Fox buried Becky, and Nikki said that wins and losses don’t matter and the only win that mattered was the Divas Championship that she hadn’t defended in two-and-a-half months.

Since wins and losses in tag matches don’t matter, of course they had a tag match. The crowd didn’t care. It’s hard to blame them, since Nikki just told them they shouldn’t. The crowd chanted “We Want Sasha,” “CM Punk,” and “JBL,” and did the wave. Nikki and Paige took to Twitter afterward to express their anger at the crowd for “disrespecting” them. Say what you will about John Cena, but he doesn’t pull crap like that. At best, half the crowd boos the guy, and at worst, all of it does. But no matter what, he praises the WWE Universe, and just says that while some may like him and some may not, he’s just himself and he’s going to do what he does best every week. He needs to have a talk with the divas, particularly Paige, who’s supposed to be the babyface.

This past Monday, Team PCB competed in a Beat the Clock challenge to determine which one of them would challenge Nikki Bella for the Divas Championship at Night of Champions. They were the participants in the challenge because they had won the match at SummerSlam. So I guess the win mattered, Nikki.

Charlotte won the challenge. By Night of Champions, Nikki will have broken AJ Lee’s record for longest reign. I don’t know who WWE is trying to take a shot at here. I doubt AJ cares, and I doubt even more that Punk does. They’ve moved on with their lives. They are adults. Vince McMahon is not. He is a 70-year old child. If Paige wants to be mad at someone, start there. He’s decided that cutting off his nose to spite his face is more important than getting the divas over.

Charlotte needs to win the title and needs to do so ASAP. Yeah, her chasing the title for a while is probably a better story, but Becky and Sasha can’t just tread water for three months while Charlotte does that. Charlotte should demand her title match next Monday on Raw. Say Nikki’s reign doesn’t count because she doesn’t defend the title. Goad Nikki into the match and beat her. Let Nikki get mad that she came up short of breaking AJ’s record. Let Paige get jealous that it was Charlotte to win the title, not her. Let Brie decide that she wants to get a shot at the title. Let Sasha realize that Naomi and Tamina are holding her back. Turn the Divas title match at Night of Champions into either a scramble or an elimination match: Charlotte (c) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Paige vs. Sasha Banks vs. Nikki Bella vs. Brie Bella.

They won’t do that. They’ll have Nikki hold on to the belt long enough to break the record. If Charlotte beats her at Night of Champions, she’ll have beaten the longest-reigning Divas champ in WWE history. But who cares? Nikki won’t have defended the title in over three months by that point. Brock Lesnar can get away with that. He’s the beast, the real fighter. And when he’s not around, Paul Heyman is. Nikki Bella is not Brock Lesnar.

The Diva Revolution is not a revolution. At the top of the blog are the two definitions of “revolution” that could be relevant to what WWE’s doing. There was no change here. The closest thing to change was a half-hearted at best attempt at getting the divas over as athletes instead of just eye candy. But the champ is still a bimbo with a boob job whose theme song is “You can look but you can’t touch.”

If this was really the “era of the female athlete,” they wouldn’t have to tell us that it is. Doing so comes across as forced and fake. If WWE was serious about changing the divas division, they would phase out the Barbie dolls. They would get Natalya involved. They would call Emma back up, and not have her dance around like a nitwit this time. They would call Bayley up and giver here a more serious gimmick, even if it does hurt Al Harrington‘s (not the basketball player) business. Until they do, the all their “revolution” talk is just that: talk.

Nikki was right when she said wins and losses don’t matter. When everybody’s just trading them back and forth, they don’t. And nobody gets over. In Paige’s since-deleted tweet criticizing the fans in Brooklyn for not caring about their match (despite the fact that that same crowd went nuts for Sasha and Bayley two nights earlier, so do the math, Paige), she said that the fans had helped them create change and then disrespected it. But what’s changed? The divas are doing the same stuff they were prior to Becky, Charlotte, and Sasha getting called up. That’s not a revolution, that’s an addition.

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