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JEW wrote:

it's got nothing to do with the divas getting paid less. it's about marketablility and saving habits. Aside from some swimsuit magazines, the divas aren't very marketable. they don't know how to wrestle, suck on the mic usually, and victoria isn't that attractive. on top of that, she's a known party animal after shows, and according to the dirtsheets, had a coke habit. Daivari has been wrestling for other feds for years before WWE, is a likeable cahracter both as a manager and an actual wrestler, and has somehow managed to avoid bing typecasted, wheras victoria will never be more than a hot wrestler chick. Daivari has also saved tons of money throughout the years, including his times in japan, where money flows like the rivers of ghana for likeable wrestlers.

Personally, I agree with the most of the above in regards to the current Divas, but Victoria is one of the last of the old gaurd "Female Wrestlers" as opposed to a diva. She wasn't a bikini model or anything when the WWE hired her. (Much like most of the current Divas.) She was a wreslter, and a damn good one. Unfortunately, being the only good female wrestler left, she has the job of making the other non-wrestle trained, divas look good in matches.

Other than her, the last of the old guard left when Trish and Lita retired. WWE dumped all of the other quality female wrestlers, as they felt that bikini models in lingerie matches, were more marketable to their core demographics of 18-30 year old males.

Jazz, Molly Holly, Gail Kim, Lita, Chyna, Jaquline, etc were all hired as wrestlers first, divas second. These were women who trained hard and paid their dues to get into the WWE.

Trish Stratus and Sable were the only exceptions to the rule, as Trish was a fitness model before coming into WWE, and Sable was Marc Mero's wife and vallet. They were both hired as eye candy, but then they trained hard and learned to be great wrestlers.

What's sad, is towards the end of the old gaurd era, the true wrestlers were having to get plastic surgery (Chyna) and boob jobs (Lita) just to keep their jobs. And, in the end, the fake brests and such made their wrestling quality drop quite a bit. (Chyna noted in her biography that she stopped doing moonsaults and such, when she did one once, and thought she had ruptured an impant, and the pain was immense.)


The last of the WWE Glory days of women's wrestling:

Wrestlemania XIX: Trish - Jazz - Victoria (3 way for the Title)


Lita vs Trish - Main Event (WWE Raw)

Watch for Lita's sick landing after diving through the ropes at Trish.

Lita vs Trish vs Victoria vs Gail Kim (WWE Raw)

Sweet match, lot's of highspots.

There may be hope on the horrizon though, as Naddie Neidhart, Jim "The Anvil's" daughter, has been signed to a contract by the WWE. She is currently training in DSW. (Deep South Wrestling, one of the WWE's devolopment territories.) The plan is she is going to be brought onto WWE television with Harry Smith (The Brittish Bulldog's son) Teddy Hart (Bret Hart's Nephew), and T.J. Wilson (Him and his brother Pete trained in Stu Hart's Dungeon) as the New Hart Foundation.