Tuesday morning, Facebook and Twitter were beaming with posts from wrestling fans enthralled by AJ Lee’s pipe bomb on Monday Night RAW. The WWE Divas Champion’s pipe bomb was a mixture of truth and sour grapes towards the stars of the hit reality series Total Divas. It is no secret that AJ Lee has felt a level of resentment towards the Total Divas girls because as the champion, she wasn’t asked to be a part of the show.
She stated that she got into the WWE based on her abilities alone: That she didn’t “suck” up to the right people to get to where she was; or have a family lineage in the WWE to gain an easy entry. Clearly the first shell of the pipe bomb was directed towards The Bella Twins who are dating John Cena and Daniel Bryan; and the second shell is spear-headed towards Natalya Neidhart, the daughter of Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart and niece of WWE Hall of Famer Bret “The Hitman” Hart.
While those were some good points to make, AJ’s “pipe bomb” comes across more as a cry for attention versus speaking the truth. When CM Punk–as everyone has already compared the two–dropped his pipe bomb in the summer of 2011, he had always been kept away from the main event spotlight because of WWE’s warped vision that John Cena was The Best. CM Punk not only made us believe, but we were able to take a peak behind the curtain to see the Great and Powerful WWE as a machine keeping down CM Punk. We all knew that CM Punk was great in the ring, but he made us question WWE’s tactics and with unrelenting animosity and determination, he knocked off WWE’s poster boy.
The difference between AJ and CM Punk is that at the time of the “pipe bomb” CM Punk hadn’t broken the glass ceiling, grabbed the brass ring… essentially he hadn’t been the WWE champion. AJ Lee, who has embraced her psychopathic gimmick, has valet’d some of the top WWE Superstars, had taken on a brief role as the General Manager of Monday Night RAW, and she is in current possession of the WWE Divas championship. AJ basically has everything that most WWE Divas would kill for.
Despite being the best technical wrestler, Natalya hasn’t been given the breaks one would assume coming from a family of such rich history. For a while, Natalya had to ride out a degrading backstage segment week after week of her breaking wind. This woman can fold you into a pretzel faster than you can blink and WWE had her as, literally, the butt of the joke.
Though The Bella Twins are easy, no pun intended, to point out their short-comings as wrestlers, they are an attraction to witness. Twins are a rarity in the business of professional wrestling, let alone a pair of hot twins. And let’s not cut out their wrestling abilities short because for Brie, dating Daniel Bryan has paid off in terms of upping her in ring skills. She’s actually applying submission holds, though she still relies on her sister Nikki to bail her out of trouble, that’s just the heel thing to do.
AJ Lee is an incredible talent and she deserves to be the top Diva in the division right now, but to hold a grudge against Divas who hardly received any TV time to find new live in a reality series is a bit cheeky.
Answer the Question: What were your thoughts on AJ Lee’s Pipe Bomb?
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Carlos Pimentel
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My question really is, to what extent do you think this promo was a work and to what extent was it a shoot? Because I think it’s really just her character airing fictional grievances, while simultaneously putting across the opinions that a lot of fans hold towards the divas division. CM Punk was speaking from himself personally, with a smidge of character. I don’t see this in the same vein at all. I bet AJ was shaking hands with them all backstage afterwards, but of course I don’t actually know. Was this an impromptu shoot, a work shoot, or just a plain work?
If it’s a work, it’s the same as Daniel Bryan calling Triple H a “sellout in a suit” – it’s a fictional line from a TV show that shouldn’t get a second mention.
What do you think?
AJ’s promo was undoubtedly a work shoot but it came across as an impromptu shoot because she momentarily broke character. Because the AJ who aired out those grievances wasn’t the same AJ we see skipping around on a week by week basis.
The Divas division has been referred to as the “bathroom break” because wrestling fans are tired of watching a division filled with interchangeable models who lack wrestling abilities. AJ brought our opinions into the realm of the WWE sphere, and hopefully–and this is wishful thinking–the Divas division starts to reform back to the glory days of the women’s division.
Then again, the fact that the E! camera crew filmed the Divas action might have something to do with that promo. If that’s the case, then the promo was nothing more than a TV reality series spot. Hopefully this isn’t the case.
As for Daniel Bryan calling Triple H a “sellout in a suit”, I’ve never acknowledged Hunter as a rebel. He’s always craved power–stemming from the Kliq days, to marrying the boss’s daughter, to becoming the C.O.O. of the company. To me the line reads as fiction, but for the purpose of storyline, Triple H is a corporate bastard who has forgotten his wrestling roots.
Yeah I totally agree. His progression into his current role was and is a natural one for his character, stemming from all of those phases you mentioned.
I too hope that they make an effort to rejuvenate the division. I had hope when they did the whole AJ and Kaitlyn storyline because that put a lot of emphasis on the girls, and we saw some great wrestling, but things have definitely dropped off.
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