http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?7623-Glamour-Girl Wrestling News and Discussion - eWrestlingNews.com Community en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:34:08 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?7623-Glamour-Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41038-Cenation-or-Cenough-A-hard-look-at-John-Cena Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:43:36 GMT Hey guys! Today I'm gonna try something a little different. I don't normally like to focus a blog on a single wrestler, but John Cena is pretty much in a category of his own so I think I can devote a blog to him. First of all let me start off by saying I am not a Cena fan and have not been since his days in thuganomics; that being said I will do my best to do him justice and be impartial in this blog looking at both sides of the coin.

It's in my opinion that John Cena is one of the last wrestlers to work his way to the top in a traditional manner. Unlike most guys nowadays John didn't take the fast road to the main event scene and in fact started near the bottom winning the smaller belts before making his way to the main event scene in which he eventually became "the man". In fact, it was the fans' admiration towards John Cena that led to his push and I'm sure at first most of us were happy to see a young talented wrestler earn his place in the company. However, something we didn't expect would happen due to this, and that was that John Cena would become the sole face of the WWE a few years.

Loved by children and women (not me) Cena is the biggest name in WWE today, the face of the company and someone I'd imagine most wrestlers don't want to face in the ring. The reason for this being simple; Cena is not capable of putting people over. It's not his fault, I'm sure he doesn't decide when he wins and loses and he seems like a great guy who'd be willing to put other over, however, the powers that be simply don't want Cena losing. Perhaps it's meant to sell more Cena merchandise since kids love a good super hero and they even found a way to cash in on our hatred of his gimmick with their "we hate Cena" t-shirts so they're pretty much set right? Except my mother always told me not put all my eggs in one basket cause if the basket breaks I'll have no eggs left; same is true for WWE and John Cena. Cena is the goose with the golden eggs and WWE is milking it for all he's worth, however, if Cena were to suffer a serious or even permanent injury what would WWE do?

WWE has a few other major faces (big names) besides John Cena, obviously they're much smaller faces in comparisson, but still big names. The biggest ones being Undertaker (inactive most of the year), Triple H (same as Undertaker), CM Punk, Randy Orton and Chris Jericho (too soon to tell how long he'll be around). As I mentioned in my previous blog WWE has very little in the way of heel wrestlers and many of them weren't given the proper buildup. The top heel wrestlers I would say are Christian, Kane, The Miz, ADR and maybe a few others I can't think of right now. Regardless of how much the fans can like a heel wrestler in WWE that wrestler will never stay on top for long and many will be reduced to nothing. I truly believe it's the worst era to be a heel in the WWE because there will always be a wall to stop them and that walll is John Cena. They say that to be the man you have to beat the man; John Cena is the man and since WWE doesn't want Cena to lose then the heels will never be on the same scale and in fact most will be pushed back to midcards once they face Cena and lose. I'm not saying John Cena never loses a match, but it's extremely rare and he not only wins, but he makes people look weak in the process.

Off the top of my head, the wrestlers who have beaten Cena in the past years are Randy Orton, CM Punk, The MIz and Alberto Del Rio, however, in most cases if they manage to beat him once Cena comes back with a vengence completely burrying them in the rematch. This is the reason I believe that Orton and Punk have been kept away from Cena lately, because WWE has nothing to win by having one of them face Cena since if Cena wins he might burry them and if he loses they risk ruining his Super Cena persona so it's best to feed Cena the smaller fish in the pond. In recent history we saw this in effect when Cena faced off against Kane. Kane had alot of fan support in spite of being a heel, partly because he looked cool with the mask and partly because people are sick of Cena, however, that didn't stop Cena from beating Kane every time they had a match and how much of a monster is Kane now?

Cena is not without redeeming qualities. As I mentioned previously he seems like a great guy and he does alot of charity work, but I think people forget that alot of his charity work is WWE's attempt at getting media attention. Singer and actress Selena Gomez did some charity work not long ago, she went to visit one of her biggest fans who is very sick, but unlike John Cena's charity work there were no cameras there for Selena's visit, there were no newspapers covering her visit to talk about how great she was, in fact the only reason anyone found out she even performed that charity was the fan posted pictures with Selena on her Facebook account or something. When people want to do good things they don't need to tell the world so everyone knows how great they are which again shows that alot of the good things Cena does are for public relations reasons. They're still great things and make people happy, but you have to wonder how many he'd be willing to do without the media involved.

Finally, as I mentioned on my previous blog, I believe Cena is the biggest face and the biggest heel today. The fact that he gets such mixed reactions makes it so, but WWE will not be making Cena a heel any time soon because it's too risky for them. I believe the way Cena has been dominating the promos between him and the Rock are WWE's attempt to get the fans on Cena's side and maybe even make The Rock look like the big shot Hollywood heel. I also believe WWE tried to get the fans behind Cena when they started the whole storyline with Zack Ryder. Zack gained the support of the fans mostly through his Youtube show and the fans loved him and wanted to see him pushed. WWE cashed in on his popularity by associating Cena the with Ryder and making it seem like it was Cena's support that gained Ryder the push. Regardless of how good of friends Cena and Ryder may be backstage we all know that best friends backstage can be enemies in the ring so really even if Cena's support backstage helped Ryder gain a push they didn't have to make it into a storyline, they did it because Ryder was loved by the fans and Cena would hopefully be loved by association. Even the way the storyline ended suggests Cena is a standup guy since they turned Eve into the sultry temptress and Cena's just the poor guy she used to get to the top causing Cena to lose his dear friend through no fault of his own. So yes I truly believe WWE wants the fans to like Cena and change our minds about him because if they can't then they're just going to keep pushing him down our throats anyway, but they'd rather push him down our throats if we enjoyed it than if it makes us want to puke.

Well that's the end of my blog and I hope I analyzed John Cena in a fair way without coming off too biased or upsetting any of his fans lol. Whether you love Cena or hate him, agree or dissagree leave a comment down bellow :). ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41038-Cenation-or-Cenough-A-hard-look-at-John-Cena http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41009-The-biggest-heel-in-WWE Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:09:02 GMT Hey guys! I Haven't written any blogs in a while so hopefully I'm not too rusty. Today I wish to discuss a subject I've read alot about and felt like giving my 2 cents on and that subject is the biggest heel in WWE. In order to do this I think a brief history lesson is in order.

As many of us know the Attitude Era was considered a great era in wrestling history, one that is truly missed among many including myself, but many people believe the reason it's so missed is because of the violence, blood and sexual content and while some indeed miss it for those reasons I feel the reasons it's mostly missed is something else altogether. The Attitude Era was the last era with great gimmicks in WWE, great faces, great heels, great divas and great tag teams. Of course not everyone involved in that era contributed the same, but it was a hell of alot more entertaining. There were many big names known not only in the wrestling world itself, but in the whole world; names like: The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H and The Undertaker became legendary and capable of playing both face and heel roles convincingly. The divas became famous in the form of Sable and the tag team division had exciting tag teams like the Dudley Boyz, The Hardy Boys, Edge and Christian and a few others. Even with a PG rating they had a formula for success back then, one that if implemented today would make the product much more interesting.

Fast forward a bit and what do we have? No tag team division (just a handful of teams), a horribly boring divas division (I don't think even Kharma can save it) and no heels that truly rival faces. In my opinion, the biggest heel in WWE right now is John Cena. Even if WWE refuses to turn him officially heel because they are too worried about their merchandise sales the fact remains nobody gets more heat than him. I'm not a Cena fan and as a fan of wrestling and not the backstage politics I don't care for Cena at all. Alot of people talk about his charity work and while that's all nice and great it doesn't weight in on how I as a fan view him or how his character is handled. He's not the best in ring worker, he's able to do good promos, but they come off so corny and stale that it doesn't do anything for me and his worst fault is that he burries his opponents. No heel will ever be able to be the top heel until he's made to look less invincible. I mean the only people who seem to get close to as much heat as Cena are sadly non wrestlers such as John Laurinitis and Vicki Guerrero. How sad is it that none of the heel wrestlers can manage to get half as much heat as Cena? It's gotten to a point where most heels who go against Cena will be liked more than Cena is.

The only 2 wrestlers I think could be able to take the top heel spot from Cena are Orton and CM Punk, but these 2 have been made faces and in my opinion WWE is afraid of making them heel because they know that these 2 are popular enough to be expected to rival Cena, but since Cena burries everyone in his path they'd be forced to either allow Cena to burry Orton and/or Punk, or allow them to beat him which would lead to a rematch in which they get burried or actually hurting Cena's super hero gimmick and they don't want to do either one which keeps these 2 guys faces and away from Cena's war path.

Of the actual heel wrestlers in WWE many have tried to be the top heel only to get burried and some near forgotten. Guys like Kane, ADR, The Miz, R-Truth, Seamus, etc have all tried and failed which leads me to believe there really is no hope for a heel wrestler to be seen as a big name or top guy like during the days of the Attitude Era.

So in conclusion I believe that as long as there is a Super Cena the fans will have to comform to the idea that he will be both the top face and the top heel in the modern WWE. ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41009-The-biggest-heel-in-WWE http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?40069-WWE-s-Use-of-John-Cena-and-Zack-Ryder Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:27:20 GMT As I mentioned in my previous thread it is my belief WWE's trying to keep Cena a face by associating him with Ryder (the internet champion) and while I was given alot of justifications on how that wouldn't make sense cause it would make Piper's segment with Cena irrelevant I still believe it's what's going on. It's no secret that WWE creative keeps changing scripts last minute and changes ideas all the time sometimes going as far as to leave things in the air all together (see Brodus Clay's return and Misterious GM); this goes toward my point that WWE may not have known what they wanted out of the Piper's Pit segment or simply changed their minds because Vince wants to keep Cena a face no matter what. I think by now we can all agree on the fact that WWE's not trying to please us and simply wants to make money any way possible (see Twitter plugs and reason why Kane returned masked) so knowing what we know is it really that far of a stretch that Vince wants to force the fans to like Cena any way possible?

The name Zack Ryder seems to roll off Cena's tongue alot lately and while I get that Cena may be a fan of Ryder's and be all for Ryder getting a push we all know that WWE storyline don't work around how people are in real life most of the time and I see no reason to believe this angle is simply art imitating life. Rather I see this as Vince telling us that we should cheer for Cena cause he cheers for the guy we like. An example of this is the fact that WWE booked Cena against Ryder not long ago with the stipulation that only the winner would get his title shot. I can understand that Ryder isn't ready to go over Cena yet, but to me the only purpose of that match was so Cena could sacrifice his own shot for Ryder's and thus gain the the crowd's support. I mean why couldn't they just have Ryder get a win over someone else to gain his title shot? It was all about Cena even if it looked otherwise and to make it worse it made Ryder look weak like he can't earn his own title shot but luckily there was a super hero to give him the one he earned.

Another example, which I hated, was Cena's interference in the Mark Henry vs Ryder match. It was yet another moment when WWE made Ryder look weak by showing him unable to win without Cena's help. What bothers me most is how the crowd ate it up without a second thought. Last I checked when someone won due to outside interference they'd get booed and be considered heels, but no we love them so we can look the other way or think it's different than had the Miz helped R-Truth win a match by attacking Ryder for example.

WWE needs to stop forcing Cena down our throats and allow Ryder to shine on his own because he sure as hell doesn't need Cena to shine and if anything Ryder's one of the few links to Cena's face status remaining. I just hope for Ryder's sake that he's allowed to win the title on his own because if Cena helps him win it then it will only hurt Zack's credibility and make him look like he needs Cena to win or retain the belt. As for Cena I have no problem with seeing Kane destroy him a few more weeks just to keep him away from Ryder, but in all honesty WWE just needs to stop trying to force us to like him because it's not working, it's not gonna work and it's just sad at this point. ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?40069-WWE-s-Use-of-John-Cena-and-Zack-Ryder http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?39562-Top-5-WWE-Divas-of-all-time Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:09:28 GMT Hey everyone! This blog isn't dedicated towards any females in WWE history only towards the ones refered to as Divas. Keep in mind my list is not based on wrestling skill alone, but rather on the impact these women had in WWE and maybe even the entire wrestling world. The list will be in no particular order and has a brief explanation on why I feel they belong there, but feel free to add your own names :).

1. Sable: Not the most skilled woman to ever grace the WWE, but nobody can deny that Sable changed it all. Known as the first Playboy cover girl in WWE, the top Diva of her time (anyone remember people calling it the Sable era?), she brought so much attention to the women's division they brought back the women's championship and she was truly the first Diva http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xMOjhs_Qss.

2. Trish Stratus: The only 7 time women's champion in WWE history. Trish did it all in her career. She started as a manager, but ended up the most famous Diva of all time. Unlike Kelly Kelly she showed a beautiful model can become an accomplished wrestler.

3. Lita: Deffinitely not cut out of the same mold as most divas. Her attire wasn't flashy, but her moves sure were. Lita could do some crazy flying moves that the WWE hasn't seen before (at least not coming from a woman) and has not seen since.

4. Gail Kim: No woman has ever won the women's championship on her debut match except Gail. Like Lita, Gail had moves the women's division was not used to and it was exciting to watch. Everything she did in TNA proves the WWE dropped the ball with her.

5. Chyna: This woman wrestled in the men's division for years ending her career in WWE as the undefeated women's champion. She was a 3 time Intercontinental champion and no woman in history has ever been able to duplicate what she did.

Who didn't make the list:

1. Sunny: Yes she was pretty hot stuff for a while, but she never wrestled a match and while she may call herself the original Diva the term Diva wasn't used till after she left (and first used by Sable as shown in that video).

2. Victoria: This woman was awesome. She put everyone over, even the horrible wrestlers. She was deffinitely a company woman. Unfortunately her accomplishments didn't quite earn her a place as one of the tops.

3. Molly Holly: Another amazing wrestler who didn't make the list. She was great to watch and deffinitely another company woman. I've seen and read interviews from the Divas of her time saying she was great and changed the way the Divas did things, but unfortunately she couldn't compete with Vince's vision of bimbos trying to wrestle and left way too soon.

4. Kelly Kelly: Not that she even deserves to be on the same blog as these women, but the current Divas champion represents everything WWE's women's division is about these days. She would've made the list if it had been a top 100 divas. I don't think WWE has had 100 divas since they started using the term diva, but somehow Kelly would still end up at the 100th spot.

Well that's it for now. Le me know what you guys think. ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?39562-Top-5-WWE-Divas-of-all-time http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?31285-Marks-in-glass-houses-(A-WWE-TNA-blog) Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:45:16 GMT So yesterday WWE had yet another dissapointing PPV. Many of us watched it even though we predicted how crappy it would be. That being said I can get... So yesterday WWE had yet another dissapointing PPV. Many of us watched it even though we predicted how crappy it would be. That being said I can get to my points:

Title Changes

Let's see John Cena went a whole year last year without being the champion (or so I've read) so naturally WWE had to compensate by making him the champion for the 3rd time in 6 months this year. Of course in the process Super Cena burries legitimate wrestlers making their reigns seem insignificant (ADR and Misterio). Personally I don't see the point in giving ADR the title if they were just gonna have Super Cena take it away again a month later. Feels pretty similar to what they did to Christian even though Christian deserved the belt more and had it a shorter time.

Also in my next dissapointing title match of the night Kelly Kelly beat Beth once again to retain the Diva's title. Poor Beth can't even pull off a win against the horrible Kelly Kelly in her home town so her odds of winning it from Kelly any time soon seem to be nonexistant. After 2 consecutive losses at the hands of Kelly it's clear that the Divas of Doom are all bark and no bite (at least from a storyline angle since they can't pull off a win). I find it dissapointing that some people actually defend Kelly by saying she's gotten better. Am I the only one who thinks that a championship shouldn't be held by someone who's getting better during her reign but by someone who's already good? At this point I can see WWE moving Beth away from the feud with Kelly and having Eve go for the belt next probably winning it (which would be a step up from Kelly's constant botching).

Only title match I was glad to see was Mark vs Orton and mostly because finally after some time Orton wasn't the best and didn't pull off the Super Cena win in the end. Mark Henry may not be the best at promos but anyone can see the man can hold his own and is a good wrestler so it's about time he got his title run. Having his win be over Orton cements him as a main eventer.

Predictibility

Ok so overall the PPV was pretty predictible. Besides the people who seem to always win (John and Kelly) we had Triple H winning. Now I don't know about everyone else but the moment that special stipulation was added to the match I knew HHH was winning it. His run as COO just started and it wans't gonna end that soon. Regardless if people got involved in the match or not in the end he got a clean win over Punk which doesn't help his image at all. While I can see HHH later giving Punk a clean win it might not happen any time soon with his role of COO which leaves Punk looking just like the Divas of Doom (all bark and no bite). The match also featured the surprise return of Nash which everyone had to see coming. I really feel they should've kept the match without that special stipulation and have HHH put over Punk, but either they wanna pronlong this feud (which doesn't need prolonging) or they wanted to show HHH still has it even if he's been gone a while.

I'll admit I didn't predict the John and Kelly wins exactly, but that was the optimist in me thinking maybe WWE would give ADR and Beth an actual chance as opposed to having them lose yet again to the superior (by WWE standards) Jhn and Kelly.

As a side note regarding WWE programming in general does anyone else think Punk's promos have become almost repetitive lately? I mean sure the words are different but the overall message seems to be the same. Seems that ever since his ground breaking promo a while back all WWE wants to do is have him repeat that kind of impact he got, but it's less interesting now because as they say once you've reached the top there's nowhere else to go but down. Can't say anything else is worth mentinoning on this subject so I'll move on.

TNA/Impact Wrestling

TNA is far from perfect I'll say that righ now. They do indeed rehash WWE storylines and feuds, do boring angles and change titles around often. However, I'll also give credit where credit is due and fact is they put on a hell of a show. I have been bored by parts of it and also extremely amused by other parts of it. WWE's no different and it sure has some lame segments that remind me why DVR is so valuable.

Thing is that as a fan of both products who's been labeled as a TNA mark at times merely for pointing out its value I find that the title of my blog is very fitting marks in glass houses because there are some people who while knowing how bad WWE can be at times defend it to the death even justifying what they know is crap all the while attacking TNA for their shortcomings and refuse to acknowledge that maybe in some things TNA is not as bad as they wanna say. Both feds have some bad wrestlers, both feds do boring storylines at times and as proven by Cena and in general the fact that the title has changed hands 7 times this year alone we can see that TNA is not the only place where titles switch hands like a hot potato.

So in closing I'm not saying people should stop watching WWE and watch TNA instead, I'm also not saying everyone who watches WWE should also try watching TNA, all I'm saying is before we start pointing fingers maybe we should look at the faults of the fed we support and realize they're not so different after all. ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?31285-Marks-in-glass-houses-(A-WWE-TNA-blog) http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1309-Chyna-and-Kharma-what-a-shame!!! Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:35:51 GMT Hey guys! This is my second blog so far and unfortunately not a happy one. While in my first blog I spoke about how the addition of Chyna and Kharma... Hey guys! This is my second blog so far and unfortunately not a happy one. While in my first blog I spoke about how the addition of Chyna and Kharma raised fans' hopes in each of their feds it seems neither was meant to be.

First of all let's start with Kharma since she did debut first. After many months of being on the road as part of WWE she finally debuted and it was awesome! While I wasn't sure about where WWE was going with her (you can only be the monster diva for so long) it actually made the women's division interesting for a while. Unfortunately her push was ruined after she got pregnant. Sorry to be so blunt, but has the woman never heard of condoms or birth control? She's obviously not the first diva to have sex but she sure is the first to get pregnant while performing actively. It's just horrible timing and completely ruined what might've been while at the same time leaving us with the same boring diva matches we had and ahted before she came.

Now let's talk about Chyna. She's arguably the biggest female name ever in the history of wrestling. She had some hard times for many years after WWE and I'm sure nobody expected to ever see her wrestling again. But all of a sudden she was back and looking pretty good. She had some brief action in a single match that left us wanting more and now she's gone. I don't judge Chyna for doing a porno because I remember well how she was bitten by a spider and she couldn't afford to go to the hospital for it a while back. It was very sad and she was obviously in desperate need of money so desperate people do desperate things. This porno was shot months ago so odds are not even she expected to go back to wrestling at the time. While I question her desicion to continue on with the release of the porno and say goodbye to her wrestling career the fact is we don't know how much money she got for it, what kind of legal issues she would've had if she had tried to avoid its release or how much money TNA was willing to offer which may well have been less than what she got for doing the porno and maybe she still needs that money badly. At the end of the day the result is that her wrestling career has ended as soon as it began and TNA's women's division gained nothing from her brief stint.

While I still believe the TNA women's division is a hell of alot better than WWE's it would've been nice to see Chyna stay in it. As for WWE's women's division I sure hope a miracle happens that allows their women's division not to suck till Kharma returns. All in all both additions resulted dissapointing for me and I'm sure many others. ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1309-Chyna-and-Kharma-what-a-shame!!! http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1176-A-Great-Time-for-Women-s-Wrestling Wed, 04 May 2011 17:49:27 GMT Hi everyone! This is my first post so I welcome any feedback. As we all know for the last 5 years or so WWE diva matches have been anything but... Hi everyone! This is my first post so I welcome any feedback. As we all know for the last 5 years or so WWE diva matches have been anything but interesting. As some have put it they've been the bathroom breaks for many even less interesting than the comercials. The current batch of divas are little more than models with a bit of wrestling training mixed in picked for their looks and not for their wrestling talent. While some memorable female wrestlers in the past grew to great heights in popularity in spite of being hired for their looks only (Trish, Sable, etc) it doesn't mean that they should keep doing the same thing in hopes that another breakout star with surface. In my opinion part of what made some of those women stand out was the fact that they were different from the rest around them. Of course you can't be different if you're all hired under the same criteria (ie. looks).

I miss the days of the entertaining divas, women like Trish, Lita, Jacqueline, Ivory, Jazz, Molly, etc. I have to agree with what Sunny said during an interview which was that back in the day there were less divas so whenever you got to see one it was special and you'd anticipate it. Nowadays there are way too many divas and with them all being the same it's hard to take notice. To make matters worse WWE refuses to give the spotlight to the better female wrestlers like Gail, Beth and Natalya instead focusing on generic girls Eve and Kelly Kelly.

The TNA Knockouts on the other hand were much more entertaining and diverse. They had some hard times but no worse than the dead divas division. At least their storylines were more interesting and their matches lasted over 4 minutes.

But has the tide finally turned for the divas and the knockouts? The recent debut of Kharma suggests a new direction for the WWE divas. TNA of course not to be outdone has now debuted Chyna who may or not be part of the knockout's division. Can these 2 turn things around as far as the women's wrestling goes in each fed? I'd say they have the potential to, however, it's much to early to say for sure. WWE has never used former TNA talent well (ie. Christian, Gail, etc) so if they are any indication Kharma may well end up jobbing to the likes of Kelly Kelly. TNA has done great things with some of their women, but with Chyna being such a unique case she may well add nothing to the knockouts division. Only time will tell. Any thoughts? ]]> Glamour Girl http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1176-A-Great-Time-for-Women-s-Wrestling