9 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2018

5. Rewriting Women’s Evolution

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Fair warning to those who like the Bella Twins: This writer is no fan of the sisters.

The Nikki and Brie made their return to WWE at SummerSlam in a backstage interview where they were asked if they would show up at the all-women’s PPV Evolution, and they instead talked about all the TV shows and YouTube channels they are on.

But the cardinal sin was Brie referencing that the Bellas were at the forefront of the “women’s evolution.”

*ahem* Let’s call everyone’s attention to the match that really started everything, a 30-second tag match involving… the Bella Twins.

They literally were the poster children of everything wrong with the Divas division, more reality TV stars than wrestlers. They were dragged along in the Divas Revolution/Women’s Evolution movement by everyone else (Paige, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch).

So for them to come back and try to glom onto the women’s evolution deal as being pioneers… no way.

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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.