Last week’s Superstars Mixed Tag match didn’t exactly set the world on fire, and I expressed hope that the WWE would use this program to showcase a weekly Divas match, preferably one-on-one. Well, this week brings hope that they might actually be heading in that direction, as we’ve got Kelly Kelly taking on Jillian in a singles match. It’s certainly a different Diva combination from we’ve seen lately, so I’m interested in seeing how they’ll work together–will it be good, bad, horrific? Check out the match below and find out for yourself:
Jillian makes her way to the ring, and proceeds to tell the audience about how she had felt nervous about tonight until she heard a Miley Cyrus song on the radio, that song being “Party in the USA”, which I believe is the only song in the history of music whose Kidz Bop cover sounds better (not that I’ve listened to either voluntarily.. *cough*). Jillian butchers the song, and the crowd boos her within an inch of her life. It’s weird, but I think Miley got the biggest heat the WWE’s seen in a while. Maybe they can channel that into a shitty impersonation by Santino.
Kelly interrupts the singing, getting a rather large pop. She enters the ring, and the match begins with a tie-up, Jillian immediately nailing Kelly with a knee to her stomach. She wrenches Kelly’s arm, prompting her to head to the corner and climb the turnbuckle, hitting a sitdown flip off the top rope and sending Jillian flying with the resulting armdrag. Kelly keeps the momentum going, hitting a frankensteiner and hooking Jillian’s leg for a 2-count.
She pounds Jillian’s head a bit, then attempting a kick that Jillian blocks, catching her leg. Kelly does a backwards flip to escape, but once back on her feet Jillian takes her down with a clothesline. Talk about a spinning head.. Jillian attempts a pin, getting 2. She picks Kelly up by the hair, shaking her head violently. She continues with the hair-driven attacks, tossing Kelly across the ring by her blonde locks. With the popularity of weaves amongst the Divas you’d think those types of moves would be outlawed, a la the shooting star press from a while back. Hey, it is dangerous–exposing fake hair counts as breaking kayfabe!!
Jillian meanders over and attempts another pin, supposedly thinking that a throbbing scalp was too much for Kelly to bear. Kelly valiantly kicks out. Jillian, knee in Kelly’s back, grabs her arms and bends them back, wrenching her shoulders. Jillian eventually relents and goes for another pin, getting 2 again. Maybe Kelly will just tire of getting pinned and eventually stay down for the 3-count. Ah, I think I’ve figured out Jillian’s strategy!
Frustrated, Jillian pounds Kelly’s head on the mat and locks her back into the arm/back submission hold. Kelly does a good job of selling the pain (this would be an instance where her screaming adds instead of detracts from the match). Kelly fights free, finding the strength to toss Jillian over her head by her arms. She then blocks an attack from her with two boots (er, or skater shoes..) to the stomach. She goes on the Kelly Kelly Offensive Streak™, hitting her requisite clotheslines and hurricanrana that would be so easy to telegraph if her opponent thought about it for 2 seconds. Jillian dodges a corner attack, but then gets an elbow to the face when she tries for one of her own. Kelly climbs the turnbuckle and grabs Jillian, climbing on her shoulders like they’re prepping for a game of chicken.
She bellows out a jagged scream (it is the end of the match, after all.. a girl’s voice gets hoarse) before flipping forward to hit the modified frankensteiner. However, Jillian blocks her forward momentum, turning it into a pin. Kelly kicks out at 2. Jillian sends Kelly into a corner, attempting her handspring elbow but getting a kick in the back from Kelly instead, falling to the mat. Kelly takes advantage of Jillian’s crouched and hits the K2, getting the pin and the win.
I could be wrong, but this match felt much longer than the other Divas matches we’ve seen lately. I think that’s one of the perks of having matches on Superstars, and that’s why I’m hoping this weekly trend of Divas matches will continue. It’s perfect for them to hone their skills and put on matches that aren’t necessarily tied to the feuds on Raw or SmackDown. For now it’s most been Raw girls getting the Superstars spot, but I’m sure SmackDown will get in on the fun eventually. But for now, it’s nice to see that the neglected Raw Divas have a spot to wrestle.
The match was certainly decent and interesting in that we haven’t seen Kelly and Jillian face off as many times as we’ve seen the other girls go at it. It certainly made me more interested in seeing the match. Though, it probably suffered from a bit of a styles clash–Kelly’s fast-paced style clashing with Jillian’s rather slow and labored move-set. Kelly, as always, wrestled predictably, but Jillian was able to halt it a bit and change it up, latching her into a rather convincing-looking submission hold and in general seeming pretty aggressive despite her slow in-ring movement. For two Divas who haven’t had much one-on-one interaction Jillian and Kelly worked well together. Jillian, with her 20,000 pin attempts per match, comes across as a business-like heel who just wants to win, no matter the cost or considerable lack of flair. For all her silliness pre-match, Jillian has another, more serious side during her matches, and that was showcased here.
Jillian provides a good foil for Kelly’s flashy moves and fan adoration, able to use Kelly to her full potential as a rag doll with her head-bashing moves and submissions. Well, maybe Beth, with her strength, could toss around rag doll Kelly a bit better, but Jillian uses what she’s got and does well with it.. Perhaps if this were to be extended into an actual feud, Jillian could become even more aggressive in the ring and give Kelly the evil heel she needs to milk the sympathy out of the fans and get them interested and emotionally invested in the match.
I’d still love to see Kelly branch out a bit with her moves–not just 20 variations of a hurricanrana–and show that she can actually wrestle, not just go through the same motions each match, screaming all the while. The same goes for Jillian–we all know she can wrestle, but she seems to be playing it safe a bit with these grounded moves. Both need to break out of their constraints and show the fans what they can really do. That is, if they can really do it.
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19 Comments
K2 really improved. She’s not just the girl who used to take her clothes off. It was interesting. Like it was said, K2 vs Jillian is not something that happens all the time.
Good solid match, but this is pretty much the same old shit, mediocre at most.
PS: I REALLY wish Kelly would get rid of her ‘whirlybird head-scissors’.
not bad, the crowd was really behind the match. divas should be the first match on all shows (except smackdown) because thats really the only way they’ll get any reaction these days =/
The crowd was really into Kelly, its a shame her wrestling skills/moveset has somewhat plateaud over the last two years, she could be a nice replacement for Mickie and Melina when they have moved on. For those of you who havent checked out the Diva segment on Smackdown yet its GREAT, the girls got at LEAST 10 minutes mic time and all four did a very good job with the promo, Michelle held her own, Maria had fire, and Mickie semt like a legitmate big time player here with the crowd popping her left right and center.
I love when Jillian wrestlers, I hope she’s on superstars again next week. The match was okay but I wish Jillian got some more offence in but I’ll take what I get
typical from kelly, nothing but high spots-_-
considering what she used to do, kelly has grown into quite the wrestler. it’s just worrying that she hasn’t really added anything new for say over a year now. with melina out of the picture for a while, and there not being any real recognisable top face for the raw division, you’d think she’d step it up a little bit.
Here is just some of the stuff KK does off the top of my head
tiltawhirl, huricanrana, victory roll, backflip armdrag, springboard backflip armdrag, slingshot sunset flip, k2, k2 variation, handspring elbow, single foot backflip evasion, flying headscissor, corner foot choke into handstand takedown, And mixes in various things like floatovers, kipup, skin the cat and so on.
So how can you sell that when Mickie does mickarana, neckbreaker, ddt or kick, lou thez press, basically every match and rarely anything new.
And in their careers Maryse and Alicia have done literally 3-4 moves.
The moveset is fine. It just makes you angry because you arent willing to admit she is athletic and it pisses you off that fans react to her moves.
This is how Divas matches should start to be like. Thank god for WWE Superstars.
A wrestler can know a million moves but it doesn’t matter if they can’t execute them convincingly. I give Kelly Kelly props for continuing to try but there’s just something off about her and her matches come off as fake, which is something given that this is wrestling!
This was a pretty good match,but Jillian and Kelly are both obviously in a rut when it comes to movesets.
Nachos, you are wrong, and I’m not even going to get into it, because I would need to fill up a page of it.
kelly did good here, good little match.
Pretty good match. Kelly was solid. Jillian was awesome. I wish we could see this on RAW.
Kelly has really improved. Now if only they change her entrance music and she doesn’t scream as much when she hits her highspots.
TrishMelinaFan, that’s exactly it. Both of these women are stuck in a rut. Considering Jillian was once a great worker, and after seeing Kelly improve before our very eyes, its a shame to watch them simply going through the motions.
I don’t know what some of you are watching but this was tough to watch. Jillian was good but Kelly was just difficult to watch. She does the same moves all the time. It was a typical Kelly Match. Nothing good about it. The thing is the only reason girls like Kelly & Maryse are around is because they are hot. If it was to be about their wrestling talent then girls like Natalya, Katie & Gail would be at the top of the roster not girls like Kelly & Maryse.
@Nachos
Sorry to break it to you but all of those moves you just named are basic old school moves[Flashy and breath taking back in the day now not so much] just because she can do a backflip off the 3rd rope. Does not make her a great wrestler i can’t recall the last time Kelly did a body slam or a solid clothesline.
Have you seen her atrocious clotheslines mind you all mandatory things to know how to do if you’re a wrestler[Bodyslam ,clothesline,hip toss,dropkick etc.]
I dread the day when Kelly attempts to do a tilt a whirl back breaker or a powerbomb how about a northen lights bridged suplex that brings me to.
Alicia fox she has time and time again put on good matches being able to sell and dish out the pain and make it convincing.
That’s exactly what the fans want [Not counting the Bias of the IWC] every Alicia match in 2009 had the fans into the match deny if you must we all know.
Alicia gets more of a crowd reaction than Maryse and Mccool put together end mini rant.
@Rey
Thank you everything he said was just wrong on so many levels.