Only in WWE could an altercation be incited by gasp, a jump rope. The starring role, it seems, of tonight’s Divas segment went to said jump rope and it looked to me as though it got even more screen time, focus and attention than any of the Divas. In the words of The Miz: “Really? REALLY?” ‘Jump rope-gate’ came across as silly child’s play and made me wonder whether SmackDown had been transported to a kindergarten playground. These are grown women, right? Is it that hard to come up with real, personal animosity to sell storylines for the women? Apparently so. Watch ‘Friday Night Jump Rope’ below:
The segment opens with Rosa Mendes in the ring skipping in the ring. Sure, she’s got jump rope game but why is this on our TV? Out comes Kelly Kelly accompanied by Tiffany before Lay-Cool come out with Kaval and join commentary. Matt Striker explains that last week, Lay-Cool told Rosa to get in shape and that’s why she’s jumping rope. Hey Rosa, couldn’t do that backstage? Cue some funny comments from Lay-Cool and yes, I am still loving the rolling R’s. ["Rrrrrosa... Rrrrring"]
The bell rings, Rosa goes to hang up her rope, gets clubbed from behind by Kelly. Kelly hits the K2 and in the words of Bugs Bunny, “That’s all, folks!” So, the entrances took up two minutes and the whole match, bell to bell, lasted what… 10 seconds?
After the ‘match’, if it can even be called that, Kelly shows off her jump rope game before throwing the rope at Lay-Cool who are at the announce table. Layla and Michelle get heated and try to enter the ring to confront Kelly but Tiffany evens up the numbers and the co-Women’s Champions back off. Wait… haven’t both Layla and Michelle beaten Tiffany? Not that logic applies to WWE’s writing but wouldn’t it be easy for Lay-Cool to take out Tiffany considering she’s fallen to both of them before? Then couldn’t they just gang up on Kelly? It doesn’t seem all that ‘smart’, as Matt Striker put it, to me. Then again, you can see both Layla and Michelle are in expensive shoes and short skirts so it was given that there’d be no scuffle here. At least make it believeable!
The jump rope may be a small, inoffensive object used in this segment but to me, it signifies so much more. It signifies that WWE’s writers don’t care to show the Divas in real storylines with real personal animosity. Lay-Cool’s last feud with Beth Phoenix centered around make up and giving someone a makeover and now this feud includes a playground object like a jump rope? It just seems like WWE is dumbing down these girls, who are supposedly ‘smart, sexy and powerful’ and making them seem like nothing more than petulant, immature 12 year olds — and I think most girls grow out of jump rope at 12 anyway. WWE is so hell-bent on the Divas being ‘girly’ and ‘feminine’ that they’re radicalising it and doing the stupidest stuff.
The fact that a jump rope was thrown at Lay-Cool by Kelly — are you being serious? This is going to be an inciting incident in a feud? “Oh my God, she threw a jump rope at me, let’s get her!” Can you imagine that in a promo package before a pay per view match? Just a couple of years ago, you had Beth Phoenix slamming Melina up against a locker and it was so intense and so physical that you could see the animosity between them and you couldn’t wait to see them eventually wrestle each other. Throwing a freaking jump rope is doing nothing for me.
Then we have Rosa just standing idly by after the match. Last week, Lay-Cool humiliated her backstage. This week, Kelly humiliated her in a 10 second match. But afterwards when the Blondetourage and Lay-Cool faced off, she had the perfect opportunity to blind side either of them. But no, she was just standing there and looking goofy. Why bother with the segment backstage in that case?
This, to me, was one of the worst Divas segments that SmackDown has had in a really long time. Just so tedious, childish and frankly, insulting to not only the audience, but the Divas themselves.
The only positive I can draw is the mention of it being Layla’s birthday. Happy birthday to her.
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Rosa fight when you look back before
kellys hopefully not getting the title they’ll just hold out until beth returns cause alicia is only getting pushed since she young & wwe wants black stars & kelly may be young but shes a boring torrie wilson…
@TeamLaycoolness I was just shaking my head in disgust but I like Stephanie McMahon too!!
You know…for a CREATIVE Team, they aren’t very creative…
how insulting is it to run a storyline that has rosa~ the diva that “put beth phoenix on the injured list”~ skipping rope and felled in one move?! come ON, creative team, a LITTLE consistency? sure, it [obviously] brings down the division overall, but what does a ten-second loss for rosa say about the glamazon?!
Kelly has improved alot over the past year, but she is still not good enough in the ring to deserve a title match. Angela Fong was recently released, and Serena is playin CM Punk’s lackey, so WWE has no excuse for not having women who are more than capable in the ring. As a male fan of wrestling, i find it ridiculous to see WWE pushing girls for their looks and NOT their in ring talents!
HEY! WWE Creative…its getting old.
This was ‘real’ creative! Jumping rope, seriously?! What’s the matter with the writers of SD! these days? It’s like, they get you going on a good, potential storyline. But, as soon as you know it, they switch gear and it gets boring and off-subject.
Not saying that there was something possible heading towards our way! This whole ‘Smelly Kelly’ gig is really dull. Kelly, Tiffany, and Rosa really aren’t showing any of their full potential in this angle, not saying it’s their faults.
So WWE, if you want to have some sort of Women’s Championship feud between Lay-Cool and Kelly, do it right! Make her the #1 Contender and make Layla defeat her already! We all know that’s probably what the plan is! Get to it!
wow the creative team thought to boil the kelly/laycool even more is with a jump rope lol wow thats ……very……..interesting.
when Matt striker and McCool and Layla were talking matt said alot of people get married in june and layla and matt said congrats to everyone who gets married in june and michelle did the next day McCool married the undertaker
….Am I the only one that thinks Kelly looked like she had a hard time jumping rope? I’m just saying the woman obviously doesn’t do it very often…or at all by the looks of it.
Anyways, Kaval’s face was priceless through the whole thing! Heck I wanna know what he would have done if Kelly and Tiffany had come after the girls. Layla and Michelle really need to be more dominant until Beth or Melina return, seriously. These storylines they’ve got going now is basic crap and boring. Find some way of spicing it up or at least make them look like strong champions! I mean, why are they running from a woman who never beat any of them and another who doesn’t look nearly as adequate in the ring as either of them?
I don’t understand why people say she doesn’t deserve a title match — a title match is one thing — winning the title is another.
Anyone deserves a title match. She’s good enough in the ring to hold one down. There were many women’s champs that weren’t top notch wrestlers (although they were all heels and cheated to win those matches) but stop saying she doesn’t deserve it, because she’s been a punching bag for these women for a couple of years and has improved a lot.
Give her a title shot, she doesn’t have to win, but give her one — allow Layla to defend it. A title should be defended not held like an accessory. >_<
I'm sick of the WWE waiting til pay per views to defend titles. When did that start happening? They used to defend them whenever! Hell titles were defended on Heat before (Triple H vs Maven) so stop waiting til Pay Per View! And stop having the same people fight for it over and over!
…….I need to apply to be on this creative team because they don't seem to have an imagination.