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MY Ideal WWE Women's Division

Competition, not Eye Candy

By DJ RobbinsPublished 12 months ago 3 min read
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MY Ideal WWE Women's Division
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Trish Stratus had the misfortune to wrestle under the Attitude Era. To be a woman's wrestler in that era, I would argue only Jazz was treated like a wrestler but Jerry Lawler was still too much of a dick to her because of her Muscular physique and non cookie cutter diva mold. Ivory was a wrestler that was humorous and funny and was pretty and tried to remain serious in the Attitude era's bra and pantie and pillow fight nonsense.

Trish Stratus was a popular wrestler but Chyna and Lita I would argue were more popular than her during the attitude era, Trish was predominately used for eye candy bs storylines and wasn't challenged in the ring much except for the likes of Victoria and Jazz. Trish would bump sure, but to consider her the goat I would have to see more of a technical side, vicious side, more conviction to her moves.

None of that. Her and Mickie were popular but were so gentle in the ring nothing would make consider them the goat. Today's female wrestling climate is better for goat status, but even the likes of Wendi Richter and Moolah, their in-ring physicality and carrying themselves and acting like wrestlers, not tramps calling each other slut or skank.

The likes of Zoey Stark wanting to mentored by Trish is a joke. Trish was an excuse for a pervy old man to flaunt this blonde on tv to get the fourteen-year-old boys something to jerk off to and for him to pretend he's screwing this woman in front of his ''comatose'' wife.

Zoey is an actual pro wrestler. Looks good, has a great ass and legs and athleticism, but her storylines and the way she works is about being a wrestler, not eye candy. Today's climate is actually better suited to treat Trish like a wrestler and an icon, and a legend more than the glorified stripper way women wrestlers were treated on her day. Sol Ruca is an athletic girl of today and promotes herself as an athlete.

Now, sex sells. There is a big difference between a girl wearing a skimpy outfit and maybe doing a suggestive dance or the splits and having pillow fights, having storylines where the boss is having an affair with a diva in front of his wife or where a diva is making out with random male wrestlers all the time.

In UFC, you ever see Travis Browne making out with Ronda Rousey before or after a fight? Never happened. These are women's wrestlers that are portraying athletes, prize fighters. Now, let's say you have someone better suited as a pure valet, like a Shelly Martinez.

If she were jealous of the more talented in-ring wrestlers and started onscreen relationships with executives or certain wrestlers to gain title shots she didn't earn or for better pay positions, than that's fine. But don't use your women wrestlers purely just to titillate a male demographic.

I'm here for pro wrestling and want to see a professional women's division where a teen girl could watch and say, ''I can do that or I want to be like that.'' Instead of saying, ''oh to be like her I gotta get fake boobs or a tummy tuck.''

This is professional wrestling, not a Hollywood B movie. There are so many good lady wrestlers in WWE and NXT today and I would like to see the women utilized more as wrestlers and not fall victim to silly, nonsense, unnecessary sexualized story telling. I want to watch women compete to be the best and at the top of their game.

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DJ Robbins

He wrote a short film that is currently up on Youtube called ,''All the Lonely Boys''

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