10 Wrestlers Who Couldn’t Come Up With A Comeback
5. The Bella Twins
That it would come to be known, colloquially, as AJ Lee's 'Pipebomb' puts this mass burial over as an all-timer in shorthand. It's not quite on that level - it didn't build towards a classic match, nor say much about AJ Lee's achievement, since she couldn't have framed the division she had dominated as any more pathetic - but it's still a very memorable and well-delivered promo palpable in its passion.
It was - again, not immediately productive - a scathing assessment of her peers, but while it exposed too much, it needed exposing. AJ was the voice behind the #GiveDivasAChance movement, ultimately, even if the benevolent and modest Stephanie McMahon obviously hacked her account to do it, since it was her idea.
Does the hashtag trend without AJ's searing belief and audience goodwill generated in no small part by this moment?
AJ raged against what she perceived to be "a bunch of cheap, interchangeable, expendable, useless women". In a great touch, she used the word "women" frequently throughout, as if to challenge the Divas and the plastic case they were put in, and the delivery was subtle but not at all lost. The pause between "sucked" and "up" was a neat way of circumventing PG restrictions.
The Bellas could not respond, and overcompensated by not responding very, very loudly.