Divas Champion, Melina has to be on cloud nine after single-handedly defeating BFF champions, Lay-Cool last week in a tag team match on Raw. What Melina didn’t expect is that she had to defend her title the very week, despite having a unification match at Night of Champions in a few weeks time. Watch below as Melina takes on the woman she defeated for the Divas Championship at SummerSlam, Alicia Fox:
Melina makes her way out to the ring first and poses for the fans in her usual fashion. Out next is her challenger Alicia, who apparently has something to say. Alicia informs Melina that she will not be competing at Night of Champions. Alicia goes on to say that she will become the ‘undefined champion of Divas’. Hey Alicia, ‘Undefined’, ‘Undisputed’ and ‘Unified’ do NOT mean the same thing. I guess we won’t be seeing Ms. Fox on the mic again anytime soon.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Alicia follows up by saying she has more Twitter followers than Melina and Lay-Cool combined. I have no idea how Alicia would know this since she has probably never logged into her Twitter account.
After Alicia finishes the referee calls for the bell and our match is underway. The Divas start things off with a lockup, which Melina gets the best of, pushing Alicia into the corner. Melina breaks clean, but Alicia gets frustrated and shoves the champ. Looking to get the jump on her opponent Alicia comes charging, but is leveled with a back body drop, followed by a forearm and a split-legged Yakuza kick, sending Alicia tumbling out of the ring.
With the match not going her way, Alicia decides she’s leaving, but Melina isn’t having any of that. The champion grabs Alicia by the hair and brings her back in the ring the hard way. As Melina tries to climb in the ring, Alicia takes advantage of the opening and goes for an elbow drop. Unfortunately for Alicia, Melina sees it coming and slides back out the ring, causing Alicia to smash her elbow on the canvas.
While Alicia is still reeling, Melina slaps her across the face before hitting a kick to the gut and a top rope crossbody for a near fall. Melina tries to stay on top of ‘The Foxy One’, but Alicia takes he down with a drop toe hold, sending her throat first into the ropes.
Now in control, Alicia starts taking it to Melina with kicks and clubbing blows to the back. Alicia charges at Melina for a clothesline but Melina evade with the Matrix and lands a kick in the gut and follows up with a flurry of strikes.
Alicia manages to reverse an Irish Whip and charges Melina in the corner, but Melina jumps up and into position for the Last Call. Luckily, Alicia has Melina scouted and flips her over the top rope and onto the apron. Alicia grabs Melina by the hair and drags her into the middle of the ring, but Melina lands a kick to the head, sending Alicia into the ropes. Before Alicia can recover Melina hit the Sunset Split for the win.
This was probably the best match that Alicia and Melina have had since their Smackdown days. As we said on last night’s Post-Raw Show, Alicia and Melina Pre-Summerslam and Summerslam matches left a lot to be desired and this match was a lot more enjoyable than those two matches.
Unfortunately, this match won’t be known for it’s ring work, but for the epic fail Alicia made in her promo. Most of it was decent, but that flub at the beginning overshadowed the entire promo. I guess WWE will be making the Divas mute again.
Also making an appearance was Diva Dirt’s Sexiest Diva of 2010, Maryse. Check out the segment below:
I haven’t been the biggest fan of the Maryse and Teddy combo, but I have to admit: it’s really starting to rub off on me. As we’ve said countless times before, Maryse shines most when in a non-wrestling role and it shows here. Fifty percent of this promo was in a foreign tongue and I still enjoyed it. Kudos to Teddy as well. It seems he has finally gotten comfortable with this pairing and it shows. I don’t feel like Maryse is overpowering him so much anymore. With a good storyline and a bit of fine-tuning, I feel like these two could truly be a power couple in WWE.
All in all, I enjoyed the Divas on this week’s Raw. We got a decent title match, closure on the Melina/Alicia feud and a potential new storyline with Maryse and Teddy. In my opinion, this week’s show blew that crap they called a 900th Episode Spectacular out of the water. Let’s just hope that Raw can keep up the good work at least until we crown our ‘undefined’ champion of Divas.
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Alicia’s promo was awful, she sucks on the mic and sounds very unconvincing as a heel. As for the match im sorry but it sucked. Im growing sour on Melina now. And this is why i think Melina is going to lose at NOC, it seems like they are trying to add credibility to her title reign by having her compete in random title matches. And the last good match Melina had was at NOC.
Oh and another thing last time i checked which was very recently Alicia Fox doesn’t even have 15,000 followers on twitter. McCool, Melina, and Layla all have like 5 times as many followers so what the heck is she talking about.
Alicia made me laugh a lot, the match was a lot better than previous between them, loved Teddy and Maryse’s backstage thing…was that it? I think, pretty good for Ted and Maryse to have a new (hopefully) storyline :) Never been fond of Alicia and her messing up on that promo and her always being in matches with Melina doesn’t really help her case with me…just saying
I’ve seen the Melina-hate bandwagon really start to pick up steam lately. Personally, I find Melina to be a great wrestler and she has chemistry with most of her opponents. She also has a moveset that demands a lot from her and her opponent, Alicia just isn’t the opponent that her offense was built for, so you get hit or miss matches.
Plus Mel put over Candice Michelle, started putting over Layla and Alicia, and aided in putting over Michelle McCool. Their (Mel and Candy’s) Heat matches are probably some of the best of Candice’s career.
Michelle McCool, by contrast, has never really put anyone over. Maryse won the Divas title off of her, but right after the match, Michelle ascended to being SD!’s top heel in the division.
Maryse is fine as a personality. They do need to give her (and Ted) a storyline they can sink their teeth into. Also I think Maryse is fine in 5-6 minute matches. After that, her offense runs out (which it shouldn’t, we’ve seen her do more than her five moves of doom) and stuff starts going haywire. I would like to see Maryse back in the ring at some point soon with another finisher.
i LIked the match…. there was a time when I thought it was going to end when Melina jumped on top of Alicia’s back.. I thought that wud be the end… but suddenly Alicia countered…. very nice….
The MARYSE AND TED thing… got me interested into knowing who the secret admirer wud be… hmmmm
“Maryse is fine as a personality. They do need to give her (and Ted) a storyline they can sink their teeth into. Also I think Maryse is fine in 5-6 minute matches. After that, her offense runs out (which it shouldn’t, we’ve seen her do more than her five moves of doom) and stuff starts going haywire. I would like to see Maryse back in the ring at some point soon with another finisher.”
Ii’s more like 2 minutes before she runs out of stuff to do. And if she ever gets told to not throw up her hand anymore, she’s in trouble as that’s about half of her schtick.
I didn’t find Alicia’s promo as bad as u guys are saying…she was meant to be a silly girl and she played it well!!
the match was much better than thier others matches but it made Alicia look extra weak!!
and Maryse…needless to say just say Maryse had a segment and you will see what will everybody say
this girl is amazing
daemonicwanderer317 – I think you’re very wrong about Michelle. Sure she doesn’t lose a lot of times, but putting someone over is not just letting others win. Michelle Mccool can make any green diva that goes to the ring with her, look, if not good, less crappy. Maria’s best matches were with Michelle and so were Kelly’s and Maryse’s. Besides she in a way puts Layla over, especially in tag matches, where she does the in ring work but allows Layla to get the pin.
I see you’re a Melina fan, so I understand you’re points, but her chemistry is seriously lacking. Why? Because Melina is supposed to be a heel. When she was a heel, her in ring personality was way more interesting and fierce. Besides you mentioned her moveset being really demanding to her and her opponents. Most times her finisher isn’t done right (and its not always the opponents fault). The true is that most WWE Divas can’t deal with movesets like that, so she should change her style to something that would allow her and her opponents to not botch so much.
However I agree with you about her putting over some girls. And its not her fault that WWE is turning her into a She Cena with this super heroine matches.
A few months short of a year out from this promo and, holy crap, it’s worse than I remember it.
No reaction from the crowd or Melina (default face Diva smile is NOT a reaction)
Horribly flubbed line.
Awkward timing.
Awkward posing/body control.
Lack of intensity/”fierceness”
Dreadful.