On this day in history:
September 19th, 2010 | For just over 2 years, the WWE’s women’s division had two championships. The Women’s Title and the Divas Title coexisted well enough until the decision was made to unify them (or, rather, to ditch the Women’s Title). At 2010′s Night of Champions, Women’s Champion Michelle McCool, who co-held the title with Layla, faced Divas Champion Melina. Lumberjills surrounded the ring and made it perilous to leave it. Eventually, a fight involving the lumberjills broke out and distracted the referee, allowing Layla to enter the ring and mix it up with Melina. Getting rid of Layla, Melina turned around right into a big boot from Michelle. She was down for the count, Michelle pinning her and becoming the sole champion of the Divas division.
What are your memories of this moment? Tell us in the comments!
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LOL @ rosa forgetting the spot for later on…hate that michelle got to unify layla’s divas title thou but we all know why she got to….
Essex Boy Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Because Michelle was 47646336446556363580096325636246 X the wrestler Layla was.
art Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Shes not that much better at all….
norisclouds Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
She really was at the time. Layla still isn’t that solid in the ring. Michelle was one of the better female wrestlers they’d had since firing the much better, experienced talent years before.
VarsityBaseDude Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
Michelle along with the Undertaker was in a move to go to Raw at the time, so I think this was an effort to make Michelle happy. And so, she became the first Divas champ and the first ever Unified champ.
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This is pretty much the end of the Divas division and proved that the entire thing was a prop for Mrs. Calaway.
WWE has repeatedly recognized that Layla was the only Women’s Champion, so having two titles unified by someone who held neither cheapened the whole thing. Melina was made to look horrible through this whole process, which isn’t surprising considering Undertaker’s well known grudge against Melina (as confirmed by Mick Foley).
Laycool destroyed this division and it’s only now starting to hit it’s stride again, ironically enough with the help of Layla. Let’s hope that it keeps up.
kreece Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
How come the undertaker doesn’t like melina?
melon2617 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Mick Foley claimed in one of his blogs that Melina was painfully shy and therefore rarely spoke. Undertaker took exception to her nodding instead of greeting him with a spoken salutation, so he dragged her into Wrestler’s court at 3am and humiliated her.
Undertaker is known for his bullying and grudge holding, and I can only assume his wife (who is loathed by most of the Divas) practices similar tactics.
GrrMonster Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
humiliate how?
kreece Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Thats so unprofessional of him. I hope McCool isn’t an arse like him
GrrMonster Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I heard stories going around that she’s rude at fan signings.
GrrMonster Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
That probably why Sara left his ass.
perceval Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
You’re over simplifying things. It was Melina AND Nitro that had gotten a lot of heat during their first SD run. Her behavior backstage reminded people who had been there for years of SUNNY. Not a good thing.
It started with her very public real life feuds with Mickie James & Angelina Love, posting this on her site’s message board…
“I’d rather work with a Diva who has no training than work with Alexis Laree.
“She steals other girls moves. Is lazy and doesn’t care about anyone but herself. It’s justice that she isn’t on tv.
“But I do want to see hard working girls such as Beth Pheonix and Shelly Martinez up on the show… as for Angel Williams… she can cry on a pillow with Alexis – slut – Laree.”
Of course, the actual reason Mickie wasn’t on Raw, yet, was they were waiting for Trish to return from Injury, since the storyline Mickie had come up with for her debut and push to the Championship required a healthy Trish.
After Mickie was called up to Raw…
“I know that there’s going to be people who don’t understand. I’m sorry… I can’t help the way I feel about HER (I Hope you know who HER is). I tried my best to get along with the girl. It’s just not meant to be. I don’t know if you’ve seen America’s Next Top Model and how cady girls can be on that show… well, welcome to my world with HER. She hated me from the day I showed up to Louisville. She made sure my life there wasn’t great. You WOULD think it was a new person thing, but when new people came around, I was still the one who got her crap. But you know, as she tried to break me…. I just got stronger and tried harder. Our work got us on tv and She hated that I was on tv first.
“She hated that I got any attention at all. You know…. I don’t consider myself pretty. Not at all. Not like the other girls. And I am cool with that. Like I have said before, looks come and go but the way I am, the way i treat people and the things I accomplish in life… that can never be taken away from me. I can die right now knowing how I touched peoples lives…. I know that I did things on my terms. I never took off my clothes, kissed ass or slept with anyone to get my spot. I worked hard. I’m not perfect but I give the people my all.”
Hmm… I can see where the Sunny comparisons came from. Oh, the wrestling move that Mickie “stole” from Melina turned out to be wearing fur boots to the ring.
So, she and Nitro caused problems, and were brought into Wrestlers Court by the Undertaker. After that was an altercation with Sharmell after Booker T beat up Batista. Then, they were moved to Raw, where Melina discovered there were worse people to piss off than the Undertaker when Lita kicked her out of the Women’s locker room and forced her to change in the hall.
From there, it was a real life public feud with Candice Michelle. Then, it was Maria. Taryn Terrell said that Melina was the one Diva she was warned about by WWE personnel. Brooke Adams (Tessmacher) said…
“She was such a rude, fake, bitch to everyone. She then tried to turn my girls Layla and Kelly Kelly against me by telling them a lie that I said which in reality was a rumor that she started. It was never anything I said. I can’t stand her and neither can most of the rest.”
Four months after this NoC match, she and JoMo made it onto the gossip sites like TMZ for getting kicked out and barred from a trendy LA nightspot for their out of control behavior.
Then, a little over two months after that, she picked a very public fight with Trish following her boyfriend giving Trish the cold shoulder treatment (prompted, of course, by Melina). Trish’s close friend Edge responded by giving JoMo the same treatment on TV. Melina & JoMo were promptly punished, again. Their refusal to respond maturely and professionally led finally to her exit from the company, followed by her boyfriend before the end of the year.
Melina took a subsequent promo of Beth’s (“No more booty popping, no more splits, no more stinkfaces!”) as a parting shot. It was actually probably referring to Eve, who was in a storyline feud with Beth, but Beth is friends with Trish, so…
Mickie was then asked in an interview if she wanted Gail & Melina brought to TNA. Her reply: “I’d love to work with Gail.”
Tara, in response to fans asking if Melina was coming to TNA, posted a video where she brought a little girl on as “Melina.” Cute, but some took it as Tara making a comment about Melina’s maturity.
So, as you can see, it wasn’t just the Undertaker picking on this sweet, innocent, little angel. If the company hadn’t thought so highly of her undeniable talent, she’d have been let go long before she was. There was always hope she’d finally mature.
norisclouds Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
One of the divas did say that Michelle McCool was sweet and shy in the beginning and then turned into someone that would tell Natalya things like “she didn’t know how to wrestle” etc… which sounds insane to me…I hope that’s just a rumor.
norisclouds Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
@PERCEVAL No offense, but most of what you posted, like many things on this site…are just dirt sheet speculation that grew and evolved over the years, and different wrestlers have given different stories of what happened. We have no idea what really went on backstage. And honestly, I doubt if Melina was that terrible she would’ve had 5 title reigns.
perceval Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@NORISCLOUDS
Um, those direct quotes, some from Melina herself, are what they are, DIRECT QUOTES by the people, on record. Granted, I didn’t quote Maria or Trish, but they’ve both gone on record about their problems with Melina & JoMo.
How are direct quotes by the people involved going on record in interviews “dirt sheet speculation?”
norisclouds Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@PERCEVAL Quotes and then assumptions about information taken out of context. My point is, like most everything these are the personal lives of people that you are speculating about based on what person x y or z said. You weren’t there, I was not there, and in some cases, they weren’t there themselves.
It’s like a game of telephone and everyone has their own agenda, good, neutral or not, and everything that comes out of it are observations based upon speculation. We don’t know what the actual relationships of these people are, we are inferring from things other people said.
So yea. Dirt sheet speculation, and I’ve seen it repeated on other websites ad nauseum as if it is definitive, infallible proof.
GrrMonster Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
There can been tons of reasons, her attitude, her sex life (The whole Batista thing), it hard to tell, it also probably the fact that Melina and Michelle never got along. Who knows, but as a Creature of The Night, i hope that isn’t true.
melon2617 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Jeff Hardy mentioned a similar experience where he put his hands in prayer before a leg drop and Taker and his boys bullied him in Wrestler’s Court for “stealing Taker’s thing”. A few wrestlers have said that Undertaker & JBL are very much old school, boy’s club, bullies. They’re from that generation of hazing, etc and that’s just who they are. I know we shouldn’t assume that husband and wife think alike, but knowing that the others Divas have such a strong dislike for her, I wonder if she is part of the hazing crowd.
I wouldn’t be too upset, it’s just a generational thing. Back in the 80′s, early 90′s, hazing in the locker room was normal and commonplace.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
The divas did not hate Michelle. I haven’t heard any diva talk bad about her. You need to stop posting lies, Melon2617.
perceval Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
“Jeff Hardy mentioned a similar experience where he put his hands in prayer before a leg drop and Taker and his boys bullied him in Wrestler’s Court for “stealing Taker’s thing”. A few wrestlers have said that Undertaker & JBL are very much old school, boy’s club, bullies. They’re from that generation of hazing, etc and that’s just who they are. I know we shouldn’t assume that husband and wife think alike, but knowing that the others Divas have such a strong dislike for her, I wonder if she is part of the hazing crowd.”
Yeah, Jeff Hardy, the guy who declared that Punk got him kicked out of WWE by playing politics, that Punk was just jealous of Jeff’s talent, and that Punk’s lifestyle was wrong, that JEFF’S lifestyle was the one to follow. I loved when TNA was in Dublin and the crowds, during Jeff’s match, were chanting “CM PUNK!” and “JUST SAY NO!” at him. Then, of course, came Victory Road ’11, showing, once and for all, why Jeff lost his WWE job and how much his lifestyle was worth emulating.
People bring up incidents involving Undertaker, Bradshaw, and Hardcore Holly, but usually not what led to them. For example…
An incident that got a lot of press involved them leading the SD locker room in taking one guy, stripping him, tying him up in a shower stall, soaping him up, then Bradshaw threatening to rape him. The guy was terrified, in tears, etc.
What they neglected to mention is what prompted the incident. They had caught the guy slipping date rape drugs in a woman’s drink. So, they took him and did this to him. When they untied him, they told him, “Now, you know how the girls feel.”
The Raw women’s locker room was known for being very old school, as well, the leaders being Trish, Lita, & Victoria. Melina complained about the hazing practices when she was the new girl, but, when she was a veteran, she LED the hazing of the newbies.
I presume it’s Beth, Kelly, & Layla in charge of the Divas locker room, today.
xX-Zoey-Sky-Xx Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I’ve heard that before Undertaker taking a massive dislike to Melina, but i’ve never known why tbh.
kreece Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
its weird because Melina was known for actually having backstage heat with a ton of people. Hmm
javiousmckenzie Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I believe it even though i love Michelle she has remember all the reports and incidents from around 07 08 she had issues with Natalya, Melina, Beth & Maryse. The Natalya incident where she tried to show Natalya how to work WWE style and tried to teach Natalya how to tie up. Maryse and her had several backstage altercations that resulted in Maryse being punished and took off tv for a while (remember) then the beef with Beth & she claims is why Beth dropped her on her face doing the Glam Slam then there was w/e with Melina.
javiousmckenzie Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
@WWFOVERWWE Melon is not posting lies she has had several run ins with divas ive listed them all above DD posted them them self but since Michelle was linked to Taker ppl dont talk about the situations as much as they do Melina’s
art Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
@WWFoverWWE Most of the divas did not like michelle why do you think when she retired NONE of her fellow divas but layla & vickie said goodbye to her but when gail & melina leave all the other divas have messages for them….
makes you wonder,michelle said she was only ever close to layla & vickie & the other girls had problems with how she was used or that she was on raw as well its along those lines…..
i dont agree with everything melon2617 has to say here but she is just saying whats out there…..
trishfan11 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I don’t think Michelle was as disliked as Melina was. Melina had real heat with both the divas and superstars, which is a rare achievement. And the Undertaker is the unquestioned leader of the locker room. He is tough for sure but I don’t think he is a bully. JBL is a bully and Hardcore Holly is just stiff.
perceval Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@JAVIOUSMCKENZIE
“Melon is not posting lies she has had several run ins with divas ive listed them all above DD posted them them self but since Michelle was linked to Taker ppl dont talk about the situations as much as they do Melina’s”
OK, weren’t you the one saying we shouldn’t believe anything negative said about Melina, declaring it all dirt sheet speculation, even though much of it was from direct quotes?
Yet, here you are saying anything negative said about Michelle, with no direct quotes from anyone on record, JUST rumors from the dirt sheets, is to be treated as Gospel.
Why the double standard? If dirt sheets saying negative things about Melina shouldn’t be treated as credible, doesn’t that apply equally to those very same dirt sheets saying negative things about Michelle?
javiousmckenzie Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@perceval 1st off you need to know who yoi talking to I never said once a thing about dirt sheets and dont believd what you hear abut Melina clearly your to busu searching for blogs from 6yrs ago copying pasting acting as if this is college all these essays you write on here your not even a commenter I read lol
VarsityBaseDude Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
Compared to many divas, not many Divas were fans of Michelle McCool especially once she started “taking off in the division”. Before hand, she was humble, but I think once she got “undertaken” by the Undertaker, she became the character she displayed. I heard she did not care too much for the fans since she considers most her haters. She got everything she wanted, so her ego went the ways of faith breaking other Divas’ push.
Thaila Reply:
September 21st, 2012 at
I think people need to take a step back and not involve themselves in drama that has absolutely nothing to do with them and they know very, very little about.
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I also hate the fact that the spotlight was taken away from Layla.
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LMAO i could not stop laughing this Rosa has to be the most talentless diva in WWE history worse than Ashley Jillian was looking at her like bitch wth are you doing then after Rosa noticed look @ Jillian face she gave her that look when everyone was going back to there places her eyes said ” You try that s*** again and that will be your last day standing* in Precious momma voice
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I did not think it was a smart idea for WWE to unify both titles because 1.the womens championship has so much more prestige and 2.this meant even more divas were gonna end up taking a back seat since there was only gonna be one divas feud.
Alot of people are gonna say that michelle didn’t deserve to unify the titles and they are gonna say that the only reason why she did was because of undertaker, but honestly, around this time, michelle was the top diva in the wwe. me personally,michelle worked hard for everything she got,and i honestly hate it when people pull the undertaker card on her.
GrrMonster Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Work hard how? A ton of people where working hard just as much as she was. Yeah, She was decent in the ring, but she wasn’t all the great (Besides the fact that she wasn’t original when it came to movesets), plus the crowd rarely react to her. Suddenly she gets a push, then weeks later, it comes to find out that she was dating taker. Plus, she was made out to be dominate in her matches with Mickie, Victoria, and Melina, which i personally thought was unbelievable.
I didn’t mind her winning the divas champion , but her unify the title, and being the first to hold both title that was giving to her. Mickie, Beth, or Melina should of been giving that honor. Those could of be given to other divas, so we would have a couple of future female hall of famers.
Yeah she was made a top diva, but that was because wwe made her out to be that way, and no one cared. You have to have it both ways. And what so funny, is that after she done all that, she left.
melon2617 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I don’t really care how accomplished Michelle was, who she married, what she did, how she looked, SHE DIDN’T DESERVE TO UNIFY THE TITLES BECAUSE SHE HELD NEITHER TITLE!
That’s why.
Melina & Layla were the recognized title holders, so they should have been competing. The end. Michelle was not a recognized champion, so she shouldn’t have been competing. This was just political “make Michelle relevent” garbage.
YouCanLookButYouCan'tTouch Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
But you guys need to remember that Michelle and Layla were like the golden,TOP divas at the time.& I NEVER said that no other diva didn’t work hard to be honest.LayCool were the top attraction at the time.Between the two,Michelle was the one WWE was higher on.
YouCanLookButYouCan'tTouch Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
AND in the end,it was a decision that WWE made.People on here are making it like Michelle was the one that made the decision.
redsandman99 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
You’re right. WWE did make the decision to go with Michelle. That doesn’t really mean it was the right one though or we have to agree with it.
YouCanLookButYouCan'tTouch Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I didn’t say anyone had to agree with me.And I honestly felt just like everyone else that Layla should’ve unified the titles.But in the end,WWE went with Michelle.I’m not taking anything away from Layla because I feel that she was very hardworking as well and she improved a lot.I’m just saying that I don’t feel that Michelle was just handed everything.We all have to look at the reality of that situation at the time and also remember wrestling politics played a role in this as well.
redsandman99 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Oh yeah. It totally did. Michelle did improve in the ring over the years and became one of if not the best wrestler to come from the diva search. It’s not like she deserved nothing. She just got more than other divas did that worked hard and pitched ideas to Vince because of the politics that came with being Taker’s girl.
Ryan Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
totally agree with u YouCant.. To me Michelle rocks. Mind you Beth was injured at the time, also look at the bigger picture yet into more in detail.. Just a few weeks before unification happened, Melina out of nowhere came in and stole Alicia Fox’s (whom I dislike) Divas Championship. No build up no reason somehow she became number one contender and it was GIVEN to Melina she didn’t earn it.. At the time Alicia has beaten Eve Torres in an awesome match Alicias finest might I add. Her first title defense next Melina just takes it. Melina wasn’t to blame since it was wwe management decision, but she sure was undeserving. I mean she took belts randomly from Beth, Jillian, and Mickie. LayCool actually built a solid rivalry with Beth just before her injury and next LayCool began to fued with Natalya in a series of matches and segments! LayCool despite being villainized are actually the good guys. WWE didn’t care about Natalya up until LayCool. Bethbecame a huge face on Smackdown because of LayCool and Vickie Guerrero. LayCool worked to benefit the divas division, all the hard work that laycool established. More matches more wrestling, even a table match! Like trish stratus, she had the pull from the boss Vince McMahon yet trish used her push to benefit the division just like LayCool. meanwhile chicks like Maryse Melina and others really didn’t do anything to benefit anyone. Hell Melina had an undertaker like push in 2007… Batista bro!!
I like Melina as a wrestler i became a huge fan of her when she worked with mccool in 2009 but she was far from a saint it’s freakin karma on Melina.
I go back to after the Table Match, things to me looked like “the evolution of the divas division”, I predicted these girls were ready for Awesome Kong and it happened! the Bella twins were getting better so was Kelly and many others even rosa was trying her hardest. But then all that momentum that Natalya had going from Beth and LayCool was crushed and natalyas championship was taken from her and given to eve Torres out of freakin nowhere. Eve was the end of all that hard work and since then it’s been garbage even LayCool couldn’t stop it
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And now we are back to Eve
silverink-25 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
There was a lot of build up when Melina took the title from Alicia fox. Back in 2009 Melina and Alicia had their issues, then she lost the Women’s title, got traded to Raw and took the title from Jillian, which I was happy and a little sad about (poor Jillian). Then somehow Alicia became the number one contender, and Melina beat her for the title, then Melina got injured, so she vacated the Divas title in January of 2010. Then she made her return in August, after Alicia made a great promo talking about how she beat all the girls and no one can compare to her, which says a lot about her run as champ.
I don’t get your logic on how “undeserving” Melina was and how she randomly took titles, because the three other women you listed (Beth, Jillian, and Mickie) all had feuds with Melina before her taking the title from them.
YouCanLookButYouCan'tTouch Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
I actually felt Melina was deserving as well of her championship wins.Them taking the title off Alicia and putting it on Melina was a smart thing for them to do because since WWE planned on having this title unification, it wouldn’t have made sense for it to have been a heel vs. heel match. Plus, Melina and Michelle have a history of putting on great matches, so that’s why else they wanted Melina as champion going into this.
flash1086 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
What you dont get is that people/fans were actually LEGIT annoyed by Laycool. Melina took the title away from Alicia Fox because Alicia did a poor job with the title. Everyone knew that Layla was the charismatic one of Laycool yet Mccool was always overshadowing her on the mic. People didnt care about Laycool anymore and Melina was at the PEAK of her popularity with the fans. Melina loosing simply hurt her carreer and the divas division aswell and it never recovered since.
perceval Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
Well, WHY it was Michelle vs Melina was pretty obvious… With Mickie gone and Beth injured, who else was there that had that level of talent, was over enough to generate interest, and had significant runs as Champion? The one who would take the Championship from LayCool, Natalya, had the talent, but not yet the other two things. The only other potential choice besides Melina was Gail.
Say what you will about Melina, she was extremely talented, though her own worst enemy, backstage. LayCool were THE heels of the Division, at the time, and, yes, they were VERY good at it.
Speaking of LayCool, when are we getting back to the Best Mean Girl competition?
As for who would win, the winner was going to drop the belt to Natalya, shortly. Yeah, they could have had Melina do it, but Beth was returning, so… Who would, storyline-wise, Beth obviously be targeting when she returned?
Also, there was an issue, at the time, about retiring the Women’s Championship. The rumor at the time was Michelle got the nod instead of Layla as an out in case they decided to bring the Women’s Championship back. They’d be able to say, in story, that Layla never lost the Women’s Championship, so the titles weren’t really unified.
So, however much one may resent Michelle McCool, the booking made sense.
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I can’t stand McCool or her undeserved push, but then again the person she buried here was Melina, who is even less likeable, so….
Layla benefited from the McCool/Undertaker relationship too, let’s not forget that. She was an unover jobber until she got put with Michelle, and came back after a year off and magically got a six month push as a face that nobody cared about. Hopefully Eve can make the title a little relevant again.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
You got a serious attitude problem.
ajfan83 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
No, I just don’t like who internet geeks tell me I should like. Layla gets no reaction and never really has. Michelle got the biggest push of the past five years despite the fact her opponent was always more popular than her. A lot of people on this site praise dud after dud and then act like they are super popular. The only one to catch on in terms of crowd reaction is Kelly, who seems to get bashed simply because she’s “eye candy”. Ignoring the fact that Saint Trish shows off her body on a new magazine cover every other month. Hypocrisy at it’s finest.
Oh, and as for you Javious, I’m glad you could get off on responding to me again. I’m pretty sure you scan through the comments on every news item, hoping to see my name so you can talk about how “mental” I am. Nice to know I have a stalker. You’re cute.
trishfan11 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
I think some of your points have some credence to them. However, the moment you said Kelly Kelly, you lost whatever you gained. Kelly’s a good looking blonde but she’s not very talented to be honest. She was on Extreme Expose’ and couldn’t dance to save her life – the fact that she was put with two talented dancers in Layla and Brooke just made it that much worse. Her promos usually suck – when she tries to act tough, it is just laughable. She has 5-6 moves that she does regularly in the ring and which she may or may not pull off believably on any given night. She doesn’t even bother to run the ropes properly in most of her matches. She tries to scream in some of her matches and comes off as a failed attempt to mimic Melina’s screams. She does have a nice smile and she gets a reaction when she smiles and points to the crowd. Jerry Lawler tries to go nuts for her but it doesn’t help her much.
Trish did show off her body but she is one of the most talented divas in WWE history. She could pull of being a face or a heel, had charisma, could cut awesome promos, was athletic, intelligent, articulate and developed to become an above average wrestler. In other words, she had “it”, more so than almost any diva and definitely more than Kelly Kelly.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@AJFAN83 Nope, you just have an attitude problem. Your posts are filled with bitterness and anger. I hope you find peace with yourself.
ajfan83 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@Trishfan11
I mention Kelly in terms of popularity. I thought the controversy surrounding McCool was that she wasn’t over and always butted her way in to matches she didn’t deserve. If in-ring talent was the only thing that mattered, Michelle would have been a huge star.
Oh, and I mention Trish because she still shows off her body every other month NOW. She’s had far more successs being eye candy than she did as a wrestler. She has more in common with Kelly, Stacy, Torrie, etc. than actual female wrestlers, whether you want to admit that or not.
@WWFOVERWWE
And yet you pick arguments with everybody that doesn’t agree with your opinion. Like most of the holier than though blowhards on this site. Thanks for your condescending “well wishes” though.
trishfan11 Reply:
September 21st, 2012 at
Of AJFAN83, Trish still shows off her body. Her looks were one of the reason why she was so popular, there’s no denying that. However, she did not suck in the ring and was awesome at cutting promos and had charisma. In other words, she had real talent and it was not restricted to having good looks.
redsandman99 Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I don’t see how being left of TV for a good chunk of her title reign is a push.
javiousmckenzie Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
@AJFAN has a mental problem not a attitude problem at this point he or she needs to be overlooked
javiousmckenzie Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@AJFaN is tired through delayed ran down and run over whatever it is is the Sunny of D without ever being relevant they are bitter mad at theworld alienated no life down on there luck back against the wind its sad really
ajfan83 Reply:
September 22nd, 2012 at
@Javious
I have no life, yet YOU keep responding to all my comments. Why don’t you just accept the fact that not everyone on this site likes the same people and stop trying to “scare” me off the site by typing moronic rants that make you look like an emo twit. I’m done with you, little child.
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Sucks try removed the women’s title but at least they remOves the belt..I honestly think Ross Kelly Maryse Bella’s eve nine of these deserve the women’s championship hell Trish agrees. Meantime kind of harsh to blame it on Michelle
It was a WWE decision and Melina is no saint bitch had mad attitude and sex life issues come into play wih Batista Mike Knox Brian Kendrick n many more causing all kinds of bs she’s to blame just as bad as michelle
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It irked me that Layla didn’t get to unify the titles. Sure LayCool had the self proclaimed co-champions things going on but Layla was recognized as the OFFICIAL champion. Michelle was a solid in ring worker sure but this right here definitely felt like they just gave it to her to tack on to her list of accomplishments.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Even though Layla was the real champion, I’m sure officials felt Michelle was more entitled to be in the Unification match. Layla didn’t deserve this big of a match at that stage of her career.
YouCanLookButYouCan'tTouch Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
Which goes back to the whole thing being WWE’s decision & wrestling politics playing a role in this as well.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at
I don’t know why you feel Layla deserved to be in a unification match back then. In 2012 she would deserve to but in 2010 she clearly didn’t.
melon2617 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
Layla deserved to be in the match because Layla was the Women’s Champion. The end.
It doesn’t matter who “deserved” the title match, Layla was the Women’s Champion therefore Layla deserved to be in the unification match. Michelle unified a title while holding neither. That’s just stupid. I don’t care who had been in that situation, it’s just stupid.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@Melon2617 Says the person who’s always attacking Michelle. Go figure!
melon2617 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
@WWFOVERWWE I’m stating a fact. Layla was the recognized champion, not Michelle. Regardless of your thoughts on Michelle, her political power plays (which were done by her own admission), her animosity with the other women (again, by her own admission) or her ability, she did not hold either title so her being in the match did not make sense.
The champions were Layla & Melina. The Laycool storyline would have played out exactly the same with Layla in the match. Michelle unifying the belts while holding neither title made the division look stupid as well demonstrated how much the division had become the Michelle show, not the Divas. I’ve said my piece on how Laycool made the Divas the joke that they are & I’m not going to go into it again, but in this instance, my point is you can claim Michelle deserved whatever you want, but she held neither title. By that logic, Trish & Lita should have unified the belts, as they are the most deserving of such a match, even though neither one was even active, nor a champion. Layla & Melina were the recognized belt holders so they should have been in the match.
lelloo7 Reply:
September 23rd, 2012 at
ok so melon, you honestly would’ve believed LAyla (who has done NOTHING in her carrer) would beat the 5 times champ and the experienced Melina ?
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Honestly, looking back on this, whether or not Melina was gonna win this match completely depended on who her opponent was. If you think about it, Melina could only “unify” the titles if she faced and beat the true Women’s Champion (Layla). But since she was facing Michelle, Melina had to drop the Diva’s Championship since she couldn’t win the Women’s title from a woman who technically wasn’t the Women’s Champion. I felt like it was stupid to unify the belts since each title was supposed to be brand specific so divas on both shows would be used. And this may seem random, but I always felt Melina should’ve feuded with (heel) Gail Kim for the Diva’s title; just to bring to credibility to that God-awful belt.
redsandman99 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
Melina vs Gail so should have been for the title. They were stuck feuding on Superstars while Kelly was getting the push for the title which sucked in my eyes. I wish they would redesign the belt too. I think a lot of people’s issue with the belt would disappear if it didn’t look like a butterfly.
MNM4ever Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
i completely agree!!! gail and melina were having some amazing matches and trying to tell a storry as well but of course wwe treated them bad and relegated them to superstars :L As for this match, i still think melina deserved to unify the titles but oh well. the match was pretty good but i think the lumberjills ruined it
perceval Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
As they did every match. The very first one, Lita vs Mickie, killed the crowd. If even the combination of Lita & Mickie couldn’t overcome the lumberjill format, WHO was the idiot at that company who kept saying “Let’s make it a lumberjill match?”
Probably the same “genius” who came up with the 25 Diva Miss Wrestlemania Battle Royal.
redsandman99 Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
In fairness to the Miss Wrestlemania Battle Royal, I thought it was at least an interesting idea on paper. The problem soon became though when they were focusing more on Santino trying to get in it and the creation of Santina. Add in no ring introductions for anybody and not being able to tell who from the past was in it until they were eliminated…shit just kind of went wrong.
lelloo7 Reply:
September 23rd, 2012 at
KElly has been there for 6 years.. hate her cz she got 1 year to shine AFTER the division was shit
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Politics and Undertaker, Melina or Michelle bashing ( I have a hard time buying the BS about the Undertaker to be perfectly honest) doesn’t change the end result of this match. Yes, I would’ve preferred Layla because I find her more entertaining, but it was still a good match, and re-hashing dirt sheet rumors isn’t going to change anything. Good match, Sucks the titles got unified, but hey! What can you do?
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The unification of the titles was the end of the Division. It turned the whole division into the McCool show as she was the first to unify it and then go to both shows in the process. The Divas division was never the same after this. We can thank McCool, the greatest Diva ever!!!
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I feel like both sides of the Melina argument are relying heavily on rumour.
If we look at people who have actually spoken out against her, it ends with Maria and Brooke. Val Venis too but he never actually confesses to having a problem with her when they were employed – it’s all a direct result of attention seeking combined with Trish. Otherwise we know she had issues in her first year with Sharmell, Kristal and some guys. Conversely Foley says her heat was a direct result of her shyness.
At the end of the day though Melina was a gifted wrestlers who was rewarded with five titles and multiple pushes, and she’s been praised for her work ethic, ability and personality by far more wrestlers (not to mention fans) than those who have said the opposite. Yes Mickie clashed with her, but they ended that soon after and a few months ago Mickie praised Melina and noted that she couldn’t wait to work with her again (Percival neglected this little tidbit). Candice also settled her differences with Melina and deemed her the women who helped her progress in WWE and perform to a higher standard later on.
MNM4ever Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
^^ THIS EXACTLY!!!! too me melina is hall of fame worthy :)
perceval Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
So was Sunny. No one’s questioning Melina as a performer, just acknowledging what always halted her pushes.
norisclouds Reply:
September 20th, 2012 at
But most of what you’ve been bringing up has been rumor and speculation that has been disputed by numerous people with conflicting stories from other performers. You can’t treat things like that as fact because it’s so harmful and damaging to a performer’s reputation. It’s more dangerous to listen to these rumors and speculate than it is to do otherwise.
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I can’t believe that this was 2 years ago, it feels like it was just yesterday, match was good just like any other mcool/melina match they work well together, still it was a stupid idea to unify both titles it was just too soon, i always felt that if beth never would have got injuried that the womens title will still be active today, but it didn’t happen that way.
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I disliked that day and Michelles push to the bone. -.-
The Womens Championship was the most prestigious title the females had for many years and then they unify it with the butterfly while giving both titles to the person that actually wasn’t a title holder at all.
The match should had been Melina and Layla in the first place.
Yes Laycool became famous but honestly it was like 90% because of Laylas character selling and 10% because of Michelle.
Why?
Michelle has a uncharismatic personality while Layla made the crowd laugh, boo among other things.
She was the crazy one that brought life and fun into Laycool mainly.
One can tell what they want about Melina but in the indies everyone is praising her for her backstage personality prior and after the WWE.
When she left the WWE the other Divas wished her well and said they will miss her.
If you check in events in which ex-divas like torrie, candice michelle, maria, jillian and others are, Melina is with them and they are having fun together.
This shows that she wasn’t as bad as people are saying, unlike Michelle.
VarsityBaseDude Reply:
September 21st, 2012 at
Yeah, Michelle’s push made her super dominant. She didn’t have to even bark like a dog like Trish did. Although I like Michelle as a wrestler, she does come off like the McTaker of the Divas as she hardly loses. I don’t like the attitude. Although I don’t know her personally and should not judge, I am not surprise to hear she can be rude to the fans outside of wrestling.
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What I don’t understand is why they didn’t make this a triple threat of sorts.
It would of added a slightly more interesting dynamic to the match, while still following through with the whole ‘co-champion’ storyline and given the WWE a legit reason for Michelle to be the one to unify the belts as she would of defeated both champions.
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This really was Melina’s peak of popularity. Listen to the crowd when her music hits.
It’s a shame that this match marked the end of her push as top face.
MNM4ever Reply:
September 21st, 2012 at
So frickin true!! they dropped the ball with her so quickly after her return :(
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It’s pretty sad reading through the comments. Everyone has something negative to say about either Melina OR Michelle… or both.
Honestly, if you don’t know them personally… don’t comment on their personal lives. It’s none of our business, quite frankly.
Anyway, I loved this match. Loved how it kind transitioned into Nattie’s feud with LayCool.. but it was a solid match between two great female wrestlers.
Thaila Reply:
September 21st, 2012 at
This.
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The greatest thing about this was Maryse casually walking out to be a lumberjill in a full-on fitting dress and heels. So Maryse. Other than that pure awesomeness, this match was 5-star – without an unnecessary comment about how much people dislike Melina or Michelle.