It's not over yet but it kind of feels like it is. WWEs Big Idea for the advancement of the main rosters womens division away from the problems that have plagued it was to promote three of the four NXT performers nicknamed the Four Horsewomen to the main roster, and to give the women more TV time per match and per show. Good stuff as a bare beginning but wheres the writing to back it up? The Divas are still being given one-size-fits-all motivations based around jealousy and cat-fighting. The decision to sandwich nine of them into three tag teams of three wrestlers and then to pit the teams against one another with no logical reasoning, objective or story attached to it is nonsensical: its wrestling for the sake of wrestling, something Vince McMahon insists that WWE dont do. Then Nikki Bella is scripted to tell the world that wins and losses dont matter, and Paige delivers a Paige Bomb after Charlotte wins her first Divas title to tell everyone that none of the other Divas, old or new, are worth a wet fart in a dry wind theyre only there because of who theyre sleeping with or who their father is. The Miz then invites them onto his chat show segment specifically to tell them they dont matter. Yes, its a work and thats the point. This is material written and approved for the performers to deliver live on camera, and deliver as though its got an element of truth to it. The truth is that the NXTs womens division works because theyre given characters, motivations, histories. We know who they are, and they deliver compelling in-ring performances to back it all up. We care. These main roster versions have no personality, no back story. Its hard to believe its the same company producing the two shows. Its still fixable but its mind-boggling that this needs fixing. Wrestling commentators as experienced as Chris Jericho, Mick Foley and Lance Storm have all concurred on the subject: character creates conflict and gets people over. Why WWE dont understand this after pretty much running North American wrestling for so long, is utterly baffling.
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