8 Ways WWE Dropped The Ball With The Divas Revolution
2. Turning Paige Instead Of Charlotte
One huge mistake that the creative team decided on was turning Paige heel to feud with Charlotte after the daughter of The Nature Boy won the Divas Championship at Night of Champions. As Team PCB celebrated in the ring, Paige got agitated and started calling Charlotte out, saying how she was the one who got the Divas Revolution started in the first place. She went on to put down basically all of the girls on the roster, whether they were involved in the revolution or not, and eventually came to the conclusion that the revolution meant nothing and that Charlotte would lose that title as quickly as she earned it. How could they expect the fans to get behind Charlotte when most of what Paige was saying was true? Theyre trying to empower women yet at the time they still had Lana and Summer Rae fighting over two guys, in one of the most annoying and tedious rivalries in recent years? Her claims were right on the money, and the fans loved her even more for it. The same happened when AJ Lee essentially did the same thing in 2013. People loved her because she was telling it like it was. Its why all of these worked shoot promos are referred to as pipebombs, because thats what CM Punk christened them when he legitimately sat down and aired his grievances on live television. So it makes no sense that Charlotte would somehow be the babyface in the scripts going forward. Not only that, but shes not over as a face to begin with, because as previously stated, it takes more than a special second name and the recycling of your fathers old catchphrase to become a true champion. Charlotte was a fantastic heel champion in NXT when she was her own woman, not being plastered with the Flair label every step of the way and they should have gone back to that when she won the title. Side Becky with Paige if you must and just reverse the roles. But it doesnt surprise me that WWE would stoop to the tactics of bringing up Reid Flair when they realised how stupid they were to make Paige the villain of the story.
