If that’s the case, it’s only because the women’s division was being dropped. Six of one, half dozen of the other.

Wish she could have gotten more to do, but can you really blame AKIRA HOKUTO, she of injecting cortisone (at least I hope it was cortisone) into injured limbs on-camera before a match, wanting to take it easy during her American run? Though the match where she retires Madusa is really quite good. But imagine the…

There’s part of me that wants to think she (or whoever else in WWE might have done it) happened to pick a move with “rack” in the name instead of picking a move with “rack” in the name because she/they wanted a move named after her boobs.

Their match in London was FANTASTIC. For straight-up technical performance and execution, that’s probably the best WWE women’s match of the last few years.

And you can’t have more titles with 6-8 wrestlers per show. This isn’t the TNA Knockouts peak where adding tag titles was a perfectly reasonable next step.

Oh God, I can’t believe I forgot about that. It really soured me on the Raw After Mania shows.

That’s a really underrated match. Test does a great job in particular with basing for Lita’s flying moves.

Was it just one or two guys or did it pick up?

I really wanted to work in the Stratus/Lita/Victoria/Jazz/Molly Holly/Mickie James era somehow, both because of the renewed focus on wrestling (albeit while still often sexualized, just not necessarily with them) and the idea that Finlay became the women’s trainer as a rib on him. But I couldn’t find a good spot to…

Not true, actually. She went out and got trained on her own (at Sully’s Gym, where Edge, Christian, Gail Kim, and others broke in) before she ever signed with anyone. While most of her development as a performer can probably be credited to Fit Finlay (when he was training the women before each show) and opponents like…

Right, I was referring to the #GiveDivasAChance match.

The division was being dropped regardless. She was gone no matter what.. So she did what gave her the best shot of making an impact on WCW. And to WCW’s credit, they kept her for a very long time even though there was usually no women’s division.

Nikki got good, though; the Natalya feud was one of the most fun on WWE TV in the last year. The problem was that she didn’t change her presentation at all.

Plus you want Asuka on NXT to help the developmental talent improve, anyway.

Yeah, I’m concerned about that, too: With the current indie boom, what IS drawing? Is it “workrate wrestling” or something else? Is it inherently big moves? Zack Sabre Jr. is apparently making a great living (probably even better now that he’s in NJPW), but is he doing as well if he’s not the only one doing his…

a few reasons:

You mean ROD MCMAHON.

Whoops, I think that got eaten in an edit. Thanks.

That’s not exactly what happened, but it was close enough. Some local college student in Stamford was in a chat room during the PPV where someone said Benoit’s “personal reasons” for no-showing were Nancy dying. Because if you’re a wrestling fan, you knew who she was. The IP was just in Stamford, not at Titan Tower.…

Yeah, but that’s not how you hardway someone, either.