After last night’s impressive showing at Bragging Rights between Natalya and Layla, the WWE Divas took two steps back and put on a random sixty seconds tag match for our enjoyment on this week’s edition of Raw. Watch below as Lay-Cool takes on Melina and Gail Kim for no apparent reason. Enjoy:
We kick things off with all four Divas in the ring (big surprise), and Lay-Cool are doing their usual preening. Across the ring, Gail and Melina mock the Co-Divas Champions in an adorable fashion. The bell rings and Layla sees Melina and Gail’s mimicry and comes charging at Melina. Melina evades and goes straight for Michelle, who ducks out of harm’s way. Layla tries to sneak up behind Melina to gain the advantage, but receives a kick to the mush for her trouble. Totally in control at this point, Melina knocks Michelle off the apron, before knocking Layla down with a modified Shining Wizard and a flying facebuster for a two count.
Melina tries to whip Layla off the ropes (tries is the operative word here), but Layla reverses it and kicks Melina in the shoulder and turns around and knocks Gail off of the apron. Layla turns her attention back to Melina, going for a clothesline, but Melina dodges again. Both ladies come charging across the ring with the same thing in mind it seems, as they collide in midair with dual crossbodies.
Both ladies struggle back to their feet and they both make it to a vertical at around the same time. Melina goes to roll Layla up, but doesn’t realize that Layla has managed to tag in McCool. Melina thinks she has things in the bag, but Michelle lands her patented big boot for the win.
As I said last night, this match was completely random. I don’t see the point of having Melina and Gail face Lay-Cool, when Lay-Cool has been feuding with Natalya for the better part of a month. Not to mention, it was a complete and utter squash match. Looks like Gail and Melina were used as fodder to make Lay-Cool look even stronger; much like Alicia Fox has been used for Natalya.
Speaking of Natalya, where exactly was she this week? It seems WWE really was pulling for her to relieve Lay-Cool of their titles, but it seems this rivalry has been dropped as well. With the news of Beth Phoenix returning soon, one can only speculate that she’ll be replacing Natalya as Lay-Cool’s new target, which is a shame because I really think they had fantastic chemistry.
In other news, Eve managed to snag more promo time than any of the other Divas could ever dream of. She used this rare opportunity to discuss something that is plaguing WWE as of late. No, she doesn’t want us to Stand Up for WWE (ugh). She wants us to know this: The Miz is ugly. Observe:
Miz (accompanied by his valet Alex Riley) is going on a rant about Bragging Rights, trying to justify why his team lost, when Eve comes sauntering down the ramp. Erm… random much? Before Eve can so much as utter a sentence, Miz goes on the verbal offense and starts busting on Eve’s extensions (Burn). Eve retaliates by pretty much telling that no one likes him and that he looks like a frog.
Miz tries to insert his catchphrase, but Eve cuts him off, saying he’s the furthest thing from awesome the WWE has ever seen… and he’s ugly. Simple, yet effective. Soon Alex Riley puts in his two cents (What, you think you fancy, huh?), prompting R-Truth to come out. Of course no R-Truth entrance would be complete without Eve dancing, and she did just that, ruining her near perfect night.
All in all, I enjoyed the Eve/Miz/Riley/Truth segment. I’ve never been a fan of Eve’s oratory skills, but I feel she thrived with the big personalities of Miz and Riley. Also, her ripping into one of the most hated heels in WWE at the moment could finally give her the rub she needs to get over with the fans, a task she has yet to achieve, in my honest opinion. If I had any complaint about this segment, it would be the randomness of it all. There was never really any explanation given as to why Eve came out and went off like that. It was obviously just a reason to have a R-Truth/Miz match.
To wrap things up, I’ve been pretty rough on Raw this week and rightfully so. The match we got was random and thrown together, it was short as all get out and to top it all off, we got no fallout from Bragging Rights. The Eve promo was entertaining, but not enough to save the night for the Divas. Hopefully, we get some decent action on SmackDown this week to make up for this fail of a night.
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i disagee Steven, sure the match was short, but it was good quick match, which i see nothing wrong with and Eve promo was really really good, and i think it did save the night for the divas. and as far as were Natalya was, i dont know where she was, i guess we are gonna have to wait and see what happens tonight at the smackdown tapings, but i have a feeling this feud isnt over just yet, i am gonna give it another week or so, and then determine weither or not it is over :)
And vickie and Kaitlyn were good and they both looked hott, my only problem with last night was that Tamina wasnt on it :( i think she may be released very very soon, which is a shame
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I wonder if Gail ever regrets going back to WWE…
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Eve verbally pwning Miz lmfao …. That was AWESOME haha please give her more mic time.
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Loved it when Eve slapped the taste out of Alex’s mouth lol.
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..’And ur ugly’. Just the way she looked when she said that was funny as hell. I mean she can have strong presence which makes up for the cheesy lines. The way she cut the promo, she came across really confident and legit. I think it was a big plus for the divas last night.
Also I think Eve has more charisma than I honestly think most people give her credit for.
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@bxradimus no Gail Kim does not regret going back she repeatedly states that she is very happy right now and well paid, i also remember her saying that she knew what kind of division she was going back into and obviously not bothered by it. Who wouldn’t want to work less and get paid more.
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Pathetic. How could the WWE do that? One simplistic kick, followed by a pinfall and that is the end of the match. Melina did not deserve to lose. Seriously the WWE creative team need to ameliorate their choreography of matches. That was absolutely TERRIBLE to watch.
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@Bryana
no Gail Kim does not regret going back she repeatedly states that she is very happy right now and well paid, i also remember her saying that she knew what kind of division she was going back into and obviously not bothered by it. Who wouldn’t want to work less and get paid more.
They should give Gail Kim a Kevin Nash gimmick, where she doesn’t really care about wrestling, its all about the money.
The match was garbage. Divas matches should just be cut from Raw if they don’t last at least 5 minutes. Save them for Superstars. This 2 minutes or less crap is BS!
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Great way to build Eve a personality. Im not even going to begin with the pointless lack of creativity.
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Eve’s segment was the highlight of my night with teh dvas and the smack was just the icing on my cake.
You may think it’s random, but I can think of many reasons to come out and interrupt the Miz and slap Alex.
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wow…’
when i first saw the match during the biggining i thought
this match was gonna be AWESOME..Gail Kim and Melina in my eyes
two to the best vs Michelle McCool and Layla a force in the divas devision
but that match was sloppy sloppy sloppy that cross boddy Melina n Layla
did was HORRIBLE..that match was probally 50 Sec pathetic….Eve in other hand was extremely good i didnt think she had it in her to do promo like that..that slap to Alex was simply..simply..flawless
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“Nails done, hair done, everything did” I love that, Alex.
I’m not mad about the match. We’ve seen Natalya vs LayCool for a month now and a tiny break is ok. I’m sure they’ll pick up the fued. What I wished happened was that multiple people would gun for the title instead of just Natalya.
Then would could see a triple threat or fatal four way. Something.
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Everything was perfect until R-Truth decided to rap his way to the ring.
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Btw was anyone else happy that Miz won so that we didn’t have to see the Eve and R-Truth victory dance?
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the only good thing came out of the match the melina and gail mocking laycool and i am personally as much that i love michelle and layla .they become boring i pray break the two of them up.
eve did really well nice slap to the douche.
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Wow! Another burial! LayCool is on a row! :D
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*roll
Whatever…
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Eve did really good on the mic BTW. Now all she needs to do is learn how to wrestle :D
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i don’t usually buy into rumours or theories about wwe or tna “punishing” their talent over things in their personal lives, but i do have to wonder if this sudden de-push and almost jobber-like status that melina has acquired, is somehow related to her recentish comments regarding the unification, etc.
if that is the case, then gail must be pissing people off since last year lol.
it was just another throw away episode of raw, tbh. again, understandable due to it being the show directly after ppv, but still.. come on, guys. would there be any problem in having say, a friendly bout ‘tween gail and melina or something?
eve did well in her promo and i applaud wwe in their recent pairings of divas with the men. it’s a great way of getting them over, etc. it could also mean that eve is next on the lay-cool hit list. i mean, it kinda makes sense as wwe are inconsistent with the bellas and michelle/layla have pretty much destroyed everybody elses credibility. who’s left other than a returning beth? – who i guarantee we’ll all be moaning about when she comes back and wins the title after 3 weeks :p
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@crazyinsane
you’re right, it is another burial and i actually find it terrifying. there’s like no credible divas left.. layla and michelle are destroying them all left, right and centre. people like to claim that lay-cool are the best thing to happen in the wwe divas world the last few years, but for me, all they’re really doing is taking the spotlight and ruining everybody elses reputation. wouldn’t surprise me if pretty soon they’ll be releasing handfuls of active women and replacing them with nxt rookies/fcw upstarts, just so there’s some fodder left for layla and michelle.
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@SherriShepherdWWE
“my only problem with last night was that Tamina wasnt on it :( i think she may be released very very soon, which is a shame”
she was removed from wwe’s website a few days ago. chances are she’s either been released uber-quietly, or sent back down to fcw full-time *shrug*
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Uhm this may not seem like a good reason or observation but… During Bragging Rights.. I noticed Natalya held her face, back of head and after her match she seemed like she was like crying ~kinda seemed like it~
Maybe she wanted the night off might be tired…
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I liked the match.. was short and could have been a better match with GAIL coming in…. liked that double cross body drop… just like Dolph and Daniel Bryan from Bragging Rights ~at the time I was thinking if Divas could do that move and on RAW they did it~…
Liked Eve gettin mic time… she really shined…..
No signs of Aksana, Natalya, Maryse???
BTW… during Bragging Rights did anyone notice Ted DiBiase seemed burnt? like to much tanning?
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^ LOL
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Ladies in Blue from RAW vs Vixens in Red from Smackdown…
could have been a epic match.. but………
Loved both mocking Laycool…