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A few months ago, right around the time I started doing the live coverage for Main Event, I realized that the Divas were consistently putting on some of the best matches on the show. It was usually a combination of Naomi, Natalya, and AJ Lee, but there was a while were I was actually looking forward to each episode just to see what the ladies were up to. Charlotte and Natalya worked one of the best women’s matches in a decade, and one of the best matches of 2014 period at the last NXT special. Although I wouldn’t give either a 4-star rating, the fact that last weekend’s PPV had 2 Divas segments, and this week’s raw had 3 is a huge sign of changing times.
There’s a stigma that women in wrestling don’t draw, or that if they do draw it’s strictly because their sex appeal was used properly (ie, Edge and Lita’s live sex celebration). You’ve heard the irreverent chants present in most of their matches, so you know there’s a general disinterest in women’s wrestling from WWE fans. But my hypothesis is pretty simple – people don’t care because creative hasn’t given them a reason to in way too long. The more time they are given, the better they will be in the ring and on the mic, the more people will start to appreciate them, and the more they will start to draw.
Of course, it helps when the company hires wrestlers to wrestle, not models to sort of wrestle – not a jab at anyone in specific, but you know I’m right.
So here they are – my top 10 active WWE and NXT Divas…
