#2 - AJ Lee’s pipe-bomb
Another early milestone came when AJ Lee cut a scathing promo on the rest of the division which has become infamously known as her ‘pipe-bomb’.
AJ Lee was an important player in laying the groundwork for the Women’s revolution as she managed to get over at a time when the majority of fans were far from invested in the female talents on the roster.
She shattered the glass ceiling for female performers and became one of WWE’s biggest stars and featured in feuds with the likes of Daniel Bryan and CM Punk and even had a brief spell as Raw General Manager.
So when it came time for her to drop her ‘pipe-bomb’, the crowd was already firmly on her side and the promo she cut only enhanced that.
The brutally honest segment in which she described the other female talents as “cheap, interchangeable, expendable, useless Women” and took a thinly-veiled dig at the Bellas by saying that they are only where they are because they had ’sucked…up’ to the right people resonated with the fans.
It showed the higher-ups that were listening in the back that the fans want to see more talented performers like AJ Lee and less ‘Total Divas’.
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