Nikki is MexiCAN; Brie is MexiCANโT?
The Divas (Nikki, Brie, Foxy, Nattie, Naomi and Paige) are going on a vacation to Tullum, Mexico. Nikki (and Brie) are half Mexican, half Italian. Nikki wants to get in touch with her roots, which includes learning how to say sexy stuff to John Cena in Spanish, much to the embarrassment of her Spanish teacher.
Since this RAW Recap has come out much later than expected, we are going to try and go through this RAW as quickly as possible, to get you prepared for Night Of Champions.
RAW began with The Authority, who announced that Sting was wrestling on RAW for the first time ever!
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His opponent? Big Show.
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USO FUNNY
Paige, Naomi, Jimmy Uso and Tamina are at dinner. Jimmy is making jokes the whole time. Everyone already thinks heโs hysterical but Naomi thinks Jimmy should try stand-up. She wants Jimmy to explore other opportunities since the WWE is giving them all this exposure.
Backstage, Jimmy and Naomi are hanging out when Dolph Ziggler walks up. He tells Jimmy the good news. He knows someone at the world famous Laugh Factory and was able to get Jimmy Uso 3 minutes on that stage for his stand-up debut!
Labor Day weekend is also DragonCon weekend. In Atlanta, all sorts of fans converge to celebrate comics. In wrestling speak, it’s comparable to either The Royal Rumble or The RAW after Wrestlemania. All bets are off when it comes to DragonCon. And you never know what you are going to see there. And there is cosplay galore! including for wrestling!
Here is the Hart Foundation, Jim the Anvil Neidhart, complete with beard and Bret the Hitman Hart, complete with tattoos? Ah, whatever, it’s DragonCon! Continue reading
The Divas Championship and the Ghosts of Divas Past, Present and Future
I think it’s a fair to say that no one wants Nikki Bella to be WWE Divas’ Champion. Even her fan base, the Total Divas die-hards, would be way more excited to hear about an engagement ring than a fake championship title. Your average RAW audience member has been too conditioned to see the Divas’ title as a big sparkly butterfly award for the girl with the most… girlness? Smarks like you or me pretty much breathe fire every time we hear Michael Cole announce Nikki Bella as the longest reigning Divas’ Champ.
But what does that even mean? What does being champion of the Divas’ division even get you? For the modern era of fan, from the Summer of Punk and forward, the most memorable Divas Champion was AJ Lee. AJ was a fan favorite who was awarded the belt after doing amazing work in and out of ring (and the Divas divison). She was the General Manager of RAW before starting her record-breaking reign as Divas’ champ. Much like Women’s Championship holders like Chyna and Lita, the belt was almost like a reward for service in the bigger picture of the company.
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