Severing Ties: WrestleMania & Women’s Title
2 comments | Posted by Melanie
For the first time in 7 years, the Women’s Championship will not be defended at WrestleMania. While many of us have been up in arms about WWE’s craptastic Diva booking for WrestleMania, this fact remains little expressed among the Internet wrestling community. For the last seven, consecutive years the Women’s Championship has been part of WrestleMania and come tonight, that tradition will be broken.
If you ask me, that’s something to mourn. It just goes to show the emphasis WWE bases on the belt - in fact, Beth Phoenix’s whole reign has been overshadowed by other Divas. From Candice Michelle’s injury to Maria posing for Playboy, aside from a brief feud with Mickie James (that was just dropped at a moment’s notice), Beth’s title reign has been background knowledge. It is almost like the title doesn’t exist. Hell, even the Michelle McCool-Chuck Palumbo storyline got more thought from Creative than Beth’s title reign. Not once has WWE mentioned the belt when promoting BunnyMania, scarcely referring to Beth as the Women’s Champion.
From legendary Divas such as Chyna, Trish Stratus, Lita to the current breed such as Victoria and Melina - all have been involved in Women’s Championship matches at WrestleMania over the last 7 years. Is this what the future holds for the Women’s Championship, when it isn’t even considered to be placed on the biggest show of the year? Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at 6:28 pm and is filed under Women's Championship, WrestleMania 24. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Actually WWE had planned on having two diva matches tonight. One was going to be a triple threat match for the title, Candice vs. Mickie vs. Beth and BunnyMania was supposed to be Melina/Jillian vs. Ashley/Maria. But Ashley got injured so WWE combined the matches and made the BunnyMania that involved Candice in hopes that if Candice pinned Beth, they’d get at least Candice vs. Beth for the title. Now WWE has to dish something completely out to hold Beth over until Candice returns. I’m hoping someone pins Melina an Beth gets pissed and we see a feud between the two until Candice comes back as Mickie vs. Beth lost all it’s steam when Mickie first lost on Heat to Melina.
Rather stupid to pick BunnyMania over the women’s title match but that’s the WWE we’ve grown to “love”.
I think that the bunnymania match was actuall NEEDED because of all the talk that melina and beth didnt like the girls who posed 4 playboy and that the playboy divas needed to shoe that they can wrestle and be in playboy at the same time