WWE RAW retort - Bryan and Orton steal the show again

I don’t know who is behind the Divas Division being elevated the way it has been recently, and I’d like to think that Mantel being involved in the WWE has brought about some of that spark he added to TNA when he brought the Knockouts Division from nothing to a women’s division worth watching. Mantel brought us Gail Kim and Awesome Kong in one of the greatest women’s feud and series of matches that the world has ever seen, and it can’t be a coincidence that he’s now with the WWE and the Divas Division is getting better.

It doesn’t hurt that AJ is such a show leading Superstar. Yes, I said AJ Lee is a Superstar. I know the WWE usually uses that word for men and call women the Divas, but AJ is a Diva, and a Superstar. That woman can be sweet and sensual, rough and sexy, crazy and hot, mean and vicious, or all of them wrapped into one. She is further accentuated by Big E’s quirkiness. The man is a natural face, but working with AJ is teaching him so much about being a heel. He’s growing each week and it’s a lot of fun to watch.

Now, I might catch some cr** for loving the storyline between AJ and Kaitlyn, but loathing the ‘Piggy James’ storyline between Lay-Cool and Mickie a few years back. But to me, when one woman is picking on another for being muscular and strong, it’s a funny thing because it’s showing the smaller woman’s weaknesses. But two women picking on another woman for being chunky, especially in front of an audience who is (mostly) much heavier than the woman being abused is just dirty and leaves a bad taste in a lot of mouths. The only reason that storyline was every used was to humble Mickie for the way she reacted when Cena broke off their affair, and that’s bad business in my book. But AJ, on the other hand, is doing a great job of poking fun at herself while working against such a strong and beautiful woman as Kaitlyn.

Speaking of Cena, I have to say he was the weaker of the two on mic this week. Cena tries so hard, and continues to get the same mixed reaction each week, no matter what he says and does in that ring, but then there’s Henry who played the fans emotions even more this week in the way he mocked them. Between calling the fans puppets, laughing at making them cry, and saying he won’t apologize to anyone for what he did, Henry had the fans in the palm of his hand. The fins were yelling “What?” at Henry, and some might think that the segment didn’t work live for that reason, but think back to the reactions Henry had been getting before last week, and “What?” is a huge step up from the “Boring!” chants directed at him. Cena’s the one who got that chant tonight.