5. Ladies, Stay In NXT
That would be sound advice to the likes of Charlotte, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Alexa Bliss and even Blue Pants. Paige and Emma served as cautionary tales Monday night, as they lost to the Bella Twins in a matter of seconds with literally three moves from Brie: a forearm to knock Paige off the apron, a kick to Emmas stomach and a sitout facebuster. NXT Takeover: Rival is fading farther into the rear-view mirror, but the womens title match still casts a long shadow over the WWE Divas division. Matches like this one and the Divas Championship bout at Fastlane Sunday night do nothing to instill a sense that womens wrestling will be treated as anything more than bathroom break material in WWE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feKlyND5mJ0 For a company that recently honored two of its best female performers Trish Stratus and Lita in back-to-back years, WWE seems to not understand or not care about what its done to womens wrestling the past few years. Its an embarrassment.
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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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