3 Big Releases

[Slyfox696]

Well, according to a friend, the latest edition of the WON had more information about the release of Ariel.

Apparently the incident with Batista had NOTHING to do with her firing. The decision to fire her had already been made before the incident happened. Apparently, it was mere coincidence that Ariel had the argument with Batista around the time she got fired.

She was fired because Stephanie did not think she had the "Diva look", and Vince McMahon did not like the idea of a "goth"/darker character. With Heyman gone, Ariel lost her biggest supporter.

Again, the argument with Batista had nothing to do with her firing.


With regards to the argument, Batista is said to have a negative attitude towards the women in the company, and Ariel apparently had had enough and argued with Batista.

There is no word on if Batista actually said anything to Ariel specifically or if it was to another diva, but Batista had made a comment, and Ariel didn't take to kindly to it

 

[X]

Batista is such a fuckin' douche. Did anyone else catch that report right before Wrestlemania about how he was talking about "Guys who just go out to the ring and don't care about what their doing in there and don't wrestle with any heart, who suck at wrestling" referring to AJ Styles? I wanted to slap that motherfucker---"EXCUSE ME? SINCE WHEN DID YOU GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR WRESTLING SKILLS?"

 

[Bernkastel]

Didn't have the diva look? What? How can WWE justify that exactly? Shelly Martinez (for WWE standards at least) is the compete package, IMO. She's hot, she can wrestle, and she at least has enough courage to stand up for herself (thats assuming that she was justified in that argument) thats understanding that that argument had nothing to do with her firing. If WWE didn't like her look, they could have changed it, hell they've changed their Divas around so many times that most of them go through two or three different gimmicks throughout their time with WWE.

 

[Slyfox696]

Batista is such a fuckin' douche. Did anyone else catch that report right before Wrestlemania about how he was talking about "Guys who just go out to the ring and don't care about what their doing in there and don't wrestle with any heart, who suck at wrestling" referring to AJ Styles? I wanted to slap that motherfucker---"EXCUSE ME? SINCE WHEN DID YOU GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR WRESTLING SKILLS?"

I remember that. Batista was disrespecting the wrestling skills of AJ Styles. Cracked me up. If I remember correctly, AJ handled himself with class, when asked about it.

As far as her not having the Diva look, I honestly don't know if they could have given her that look or not, but we all know that women's wrestling is not really that important to the WWE. Why spend time on making her over, in appearance and on camera, when you can just go out and hire another Kelly Kelly?

 

[Bernkastel]

Yeah but if they do that then why does WWE still pretend that their womens belt means anything. Its no wonder that most of the women in the indy circuit doesn't want to go to WWE anymore, when WWE gets most of their divas out of catalogers and magazines, I wouldn't blame those girls for not wanting to go to WWE and waste their time.

 

[Slyfox696]

Well, the WWE is not going to say that their women's title is worthless.

The WWE keeps the women's division around, in my opinion, just because it reaches another kind of fan. It's like when stores put on a sale. You're willing to lose a little bit of money on the sale item, as long as you get people in the store to buy the other stuff.

That's how I see the WWE's women division. It's the sale item.

 

[Bernkastel]

I'm a big fan of womens wrestling and I can say that I am not happy with the direction in which the product is moving and the state in which it is in right now. Its very very evident that WWE needs to chance their game plan when their developmental territories, OVW and former DSW both had overall better womens divisions than WWE had in wrestling talent, overall mic skills, getting crowd reactions, and promo skills. But this is discounting all the publicity that WWE gives for their wrestlers, but as photos shoots and inside scoops on wwe.com are hardly anything special as they treated their developmental divas with a similar grace.

 

[Slyfox696]

But, do you still watch WWE women's wrestling? And, would you not be less likely to watch the WWE if instead of the women, they put on a Snitsky vs. random jobber A match?

They are just trying to appeal to a various niche of fans. They do that with a LOT of their product.

 

[Bernkastel]

The only show I watch of WWE's is Smackdown, I don't normally watch Raw, all of these matches if I want to watch them, I check them out at dailymotion or youtube. WWE has become just really stale for me lately, as it doesn't deliver like it used to and it doesn't live up to the hype as I find myself watching other brands to fulfill my wrestling needs.