2. Is It Charlottes Time?
WWE played bait-and-switch with the Divas Championship match on Raw, hyping a big match and delivering a middling affair that disappointed on multiple levels. At least it promised a rematch at Night of Champions, and thats when Charlotte will come through and end the Bellas reign of terror, right? Lets say it this way: If Nikki Bella emerges from NOC with her title intact, then the Divas Revolution is officially dead with no chance of being resuscitated. WWE wanted to wipe AJ Lee from the record books, congratulations, youve done it. Now get the title onto someone else. Let the Bellas chase for a while. Let the really talented women fight over the championship in actual title matches (not going 10 weeks between title defenses while bragging about how long youve been champ). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzJRZKYx60 None of this says that Nikki cant be in the title picture and cant be part of a rebirth of the Divas division. But her continued holding of the title is not a heat-drawing tactic; its a connection to an era that WWE purportedly wants to leave behind. If WWE truly wants to have a revolution in its Divas division, then it needs to rip off the bandage and move the hell forward.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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