Michelle and Melina did great with their brawl. The WWE should take notice, that any time their divas are allowed to go “over the top” a bit, the crowd gives them a great reaction (see Beth vs. Melina right before Melina’s injury). This is absolutely where Melina shines, and I must admit that Michelle (and the writers) have done a good job re-inventing her persona. She is almost flat-out psychotic.

I enjoy seeing both feuds built in different ways. Melina and Michelle have waged war, while Mickie/Maryse has gone with the traditional “keep them separate before the title match” route. Wrestling foreplay, as I like to call it. As a result, Michelle/Melina will probably come across as the more entertaining feud from week to week, but I believe that Maryse vs. Mickie might see a bigger payoff when they finally get to rumble at Night of Champions.

They are really conscious in reminding us Michelle is the first to hold both titles. Either they are simply trying to get her over (possible) or they have something they are building up. Like a match with Mickie at Summerslam…*wink wink*

Michelle was already going to face Melina before they even started feuding. She won a title shot on May 22nd, the week after Melina’s first appearance on Smackdown, so they HAD to create a feud because a Melina vs. Michelle title match was already set before they started having a problem with each other.

Plus, they pinned each other before The Bash and fought each other in tag matches numerous times (sometimes the exact same pairings repeated a couple weeks later). Basically, the cookie-cutter women’s feud that WWE loves to book. By the time The Bash happened, I felt like I’d seen them fight 50 times already, even though they hadn’t.

Again, I do think the feud has produced solid wrestling, which is always a plus, but I feel the booking is contrived, generic, and has repeated the same match pairings too much. I feel the total opposite about the Raw feud, which is why I like it so much more. It’s all individual opinion, though, as some people don’t like the Raw feud at all and love this Michelle-Melina deal. Nothing wrong with that.

I hate how Michelle is being portrayed as being a coward. Just a month ago she was attacking Melina with no fear and showing no mercy, now she is running at the first sign of danger. I said before that she would be ruined if she won the title and once again I was right.

The Melina-Michelle fued was the best fued AI have seen in a while.Although they made Michelle dominate the whole
fued.Melina didnt do anything but Pin,but Michelle she got to attack Melina,talk thrash,blah,blah.All Melina did was just get pins.Which I think is unFair.But whateVer Melina is still the better Women.

To the match.I liked this match I loved when Melina Jabbed Michelle LOL.Eve & Layla did Excellent they are really improving.

And Yes I am also tired of these TAG TEAM matches. I wanna see some singles matches again

Maybe I’m just biased against RAW because they had a bad DIva’s Division (before Gail & Alicia crossed over). I mean, goodness, RAW had to get Gail & Alicia just to put on a good match.

“I’m enjoying the Mickie-Maryse feud much more, since it’s something different than the typical “You have title? Me want title!” Divas feud, with Maryse frustrating Mickie and the lack of contact between them. Plus, I can’t remember the last time WWE built up any title match for over two-and-a-half months before putting it on a PPV. The last time they did it in the Women’s division was Trish vs. Mickie.”

No offense, but this isn’t the RAW Redux it’s the Smackdown Redux and everyone who comments in these blogs knows what is going on between the Maryse and Mickie feud, however that isn’t what this blog is about. It’s your opinion and sure you are entitled and able to post whatever you wanna’ post, but at the same time everything that I read when reading your comments is always something negative about the Smackdown Divas feud and always positive about the RAW Divas feud. That’s cool in all, but if you aren’t feeling the feud than why even post in the redux? ..That’s what I don’t get. It’s like if I hated something and yet I continued to do it knowing good and well that I hated it… now, I am not saying that you hate the Smackdown Divas division or the story-lines, however you are constantly commenting on how much you like the Maryse and Mickie feud better.

I personally prefer this feud over the other feud and it’s not because I like the blue brand more than the red brand, but because I can’t seem to even like Mickie James without her psycho gimmick. Sure, she gets a huge fan pop, but I personally don’t like the woman because she doesn’t really amaze me, however she doesn’t really bore me either. I guess I will just wait to make a comment on the Raw Divas in the Raw Redux rather than in the Smackdown Redux.

“Well, actually, they’ve had one (on May 4th, a non-title match)”

That was like, what, over two months ago? And that was before Mickie was even the number 1 contender for the belt.

Well, actually, they’ve had one (on May 4th, a non-title match). And if they hadn’t, I don’t see why that’s a bad thing. I’m looking forward to their Night of Champions match partly BECAUSE they haven’t already had 1000 tag matches or fights at ringside, not in spite of it. I like the whole cat-and-mouse thing they’ve been doing.

however, All ladies involved has shown great deal of skills. Layla’s strength and her improvement is getting better and better and better the same goes for eve. But I am begging eve to get better attire. the match was real good IMO.

Was maria really in the closet with Dolph Ziggler ?

About the match, I thought it was a good one (which for Smackdown, it’s no surprise). The post-match was sweet! ;)

As far as the people in the match are concerned, all four did a great job. Judging by how the JR and Todd, especially JR, talked about Eve during the match, she might be next in line for a future Women’s title shot…like after Summerslam, perhaps. A year ago, that would have been a crazy thing to mention, but after seeing how she’s constantly improving, the idea’s not so crazy. Yes, I’m part of the EVE-olvers. It’s a name for Eve fans. ;)

In addition, I’m looking forward into the next chapter of the Michelle/Melina feud as well. Those two are gonna tear the house down the next time they face each other one-on-one.

I agree with Erin the figure 4 headlock would be a great addition to Michelle’s moveset….it’s not used often and executed by someone with big strong legs or long in Michelle’s case it looks wicked! As Erin pointed out the move appears weak when Eve just stands and slips out…they should have allowed Michelle to lock it in a bit longer…

A few points about Eve and her progress..looking at her escape from the Cool Clamp..it appeared to me like she was thinking of doing something other than a simple knee smash….then decided not to…she needs to be more confident in her move planning….I also noticed her powerslam is evolving, her first attempt was awkward to say the least but her 2nd try got the job done but had little to no impact…adding a rotation as she did gave the move a bit more polish…it’ll be interesting to see how she further develops her slam..a little more impact and faster rotation is key..but i’d like to see her add her own twist to it, maybe a one footed rotation.

I was somewhat bother by her not even trying to get involved in the post match attack or at least them not have a double brawl of sorts..with Eve running interference keeping Layla at bay…it seems like that’s what was going to happen but it sudden stopped in the middle and turned into Melina v McCool at the end…

Layla’s show of strength was sweet!!! I mean who knew she had that in her??! This opens up a ton of possibilities for her moves.

Whoa, is it me or has Eve gotten a lot better in the ring as of lately? I remember when I use to hate watching Eve wrestle, because she was so sloppy to me, however I’ve grown to love Eve in the ring. On another note, I remember everyone saying that Michelle was being unstoppable, but this weeks Smackdown basically knocked that down. She was never unstoppable to me… she was just always one step ahead of her opponent(s) that night and I always thought that people called her unstoppable, because they didn’t like her charisma. Eh, I thought that this match was a lot more better since we actually saw an attack at the end of the match.

Eve – She continues to impress me, nothing amazing, but good in-ring work. I don’t think she will last long, but she proved how much she wants to be in the company.

Layla – I will always love her, I think she lost a little of style-sense, but oh well, at least we see her in the ring more often.

Melina – Nothing to say here, flawless.

Michelle – Same as Melina. She showed a little more personality, but continues to fail on the charisma departement.

I would give this match a 6/10, because we could see ALL divas in action, and they all did good. I hope we can see better matches however, because I think this one was a little BLAH and Layla deserves more offence.

I’m enjoying the Mickie-Maryse feud much more, since it’s something different than the typical “You have title? Me want title!” Divas feud, with Maryse frustrating Mickie and the lack of contact between them. Plus, I can’t remember the last time WWE built up any title match for over two-and-a-half months before putting it on a PPV. The last time they did it in the Women’s division was Trish vs. Mickie.

As I said, this tag match was decent, I thought. Natalya must get involved, though, as no one besides her, Michelle, and Melina should fighting over the title right now.