Quick, answer this question: Who should fans cheer in the Divas Championship match? Who should you boo? If you answered that youre not sure, youre not alone. That is the crux of the problem with WWE writers, as theyve created a conundrum. Paige versus Charlotte should be an easy feud to book: two former NXT Womens Champions, both second-generation female wrestlers, though ones father happens to be one of the most famous in the world and the others wrestling family isnt nearly as well-known. Paige feels Charlotte has gotten stuff handed to her, and maybe she has, but she can back it up in the ring. The problem came when Charlotte turned into nothing more than Ric Flairs daughter, appropriating her dads entrance music, finisher and even his trademark Woooo! There was nothing original for people to cheer, but she still was the heroine. Then WWE, sensing a problem, ramped it up by having Paige go full-on heel (despite fans still wanting to cheer her) by insulting Charlottes deceased brother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95Yoyxl5mE Then for whatever reason, the writers realized that copying the Dirtiest Player in the Game probably should make you a heel and positioned Charlotte as a villainess too, which is probably a better fit. But does that mean that we now suddenly cheer the woman who insulted dead siblings and recently slapped senior citizen Flair? And WWE wonders why it has problems with its Divas Revolution.
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.
