6 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 9)

5. A Spray Tan?

Is this what the Divas division has been reduced to? A feud based in part on skin tone? Whatever happened to feuding over a title because one person wants it? It€™s true that Paige has been mixing it up with the Bella Twins for a few weeks now, but the past two weeks have harkened back to the Piggy James angle from several years ago, where a woman€™s physical appearance become a central part of a feud. Paige is pale-skinned, get over it. She€™s also one of the best female wrestlers on the roster and wants to be Divas Champion again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEk_JDg6fbU But because nearly the entire Divas division €œstars€ on Total Divas, we have to have ridiculous angles like Nikki and Brie covering Paige in spray tan last week, which the announcers then talked about again on Monday. Why can€™t a Divas angle simply be about wanting to be champion? It feels like whenever the Bellas are involved, the soap opera factor gets turned up to 11. And that€™s not a good thing.
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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.