Y'know, the decision not to have Christy Hemme is looking better and better. But do me a favor: swear that none of the current lot in the Diva competition will EVER even be considered (even in your most alcohol/illicit pharmaceutical/whatever induced hallucinations).
Let's not even get into why they had them in a hot dog eating contest (I can think of a reason, but it's not for mixed company); even worse, these idiots couldn't even act as though they cared who won. None of them look like they're used to eating, but they were eating those hot dogs so daintily that even Emily Post would have screamed "It's an eating contest, schmucks! Get chomping!"
Let's recap: it started promisingly enough with the obstacle course contest, went down with that "talent" contest (though the one who monkey flipped Hemme at least remembered that this had something to do with wrestling), then a badmouth session in which I think the worst thing anyone said was that their opponents weren't really interested in wrestling (well, DUH!), and now this.
Why don't they just have these bimbos do their Playboy spread and then hopefully have Victoria and whoever's left of female wrestlers (they dropped Ivory recently) come out and kick their butts?
Sorry about the rant, but had to get it off my chest.
Instead of going off like I usually do, I'll just agree wholeheartedly Karl. I think you speak for most of (hopefully all of) us assoc. w/ the FWF.
Let me just say this though. I did not watch the Great American Bash on Sun. because I knew it would suck. Apparently the Batista/JBL title match ended in a DQ. Yet this assinine hot dog eating contest had to go to an "eat-off" to determine a winner. In other words, we had to have overtime to determine who would win a hot dog eating contest in the Bimbo Search Brigade but we couldn't get a clean finish in the PPV main event for which people had to pay $34.95 for. I think that pretty much describes how rudderless the direction is in the WWE right now.
I read on another site that Great American Bash had problems (I didn't feel like shelling out the bucks so I didn't see it), but I will agree that the WWE is in trouble. The treatment of the women's division is emblematic of it; they simply don't seem to have any new ideas. Most recently, I've noticed on RAW the increasing tendency to have rigged matches (like the one with Cena and Carlito this week). It's the same sort of thing they had Bischoff doing on WCW Nitro, and the reason I stopped watching that (note to Vince: when you recycle plots, use ones that didn't result in the company going out of business).
I've heard that RAW is going to be moving back to USA Network in the near future (apparently, the pruning of the roster is a cost cutting move leading up to that). Hopefully, the change of scenery will spur their creative juices. My suggestion? Forget the idiotic Diva Search, and go back to something that yielded some positive results, that is, hire some fitness models (as they did with Trish and Victoria), train them until they can at least make a halfway decent show, then have 2 or 3 women's matches in each show (I'd gladly forego the chance to see another "MasterLock Challenge.") Even better idea, surf the web and hire some of the people writing women's fight fiction--the stuff here (and elsewhere) is a lot more creative than hot dog eating.
