Part 5: Fantasy
Booking
Ok so this is the part where I
really have fun and say how I would have done the whole thing myself. I know, I know, everyone does this and its
VERY easy to say how you would have done something better after something has
already tanked and been disliked by so many.
Its also fun and really that’s always the name of the game here isn’t
it? Lets just have some fun.
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| Nikki Bella |
So first
off I have things starting out exactly how it started out, no not with three
women from NXT being promoted to the main roster and put in teams but before
that when Paige was trying to get the other divas to stand up to The Bella
Twins and make a change. I still
wouldn’t have any of the other divas stand up to The Bella’s with Alicia Fox
still doing the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em thing.” After The Bella’s defeat Paige once again I
would have Nikki Bella in the ring the next night flanked by sister Brie and
honorary Bella, Alicia Fox. Nikki is
bragging about how no diva has been able to get the title away from Team Bella
and how Paige failed so miserably in getting anyone to help her out. She says that the diva’s championship is
staying with Team Bella and that no one else has the right to hold it. At this point Alicia Fox asks if that means
she gets a title shot. Nikki and Brie exchange
looks and then laugh it off with Nikki saying that she isn’t a REAL Bella and
thus she wouldn’t give the title the prestige it deserves when being held by a
REAL Bella. Alicia looks upset but
seemingly understands. As The Bella’s
are leaving the ring though Alicia grabs Nikki by the hair pulls her back in
and starts stomping on her. Brie who was already outside sees what happens and
dives back into the ring to save her sister but is also meet with stomps. With both Bella’s down Alicia Fox shouts at
Nikki that she was right she doesn’t need to be an honorary Bella because she
is a Fox. She then picks up Nikki’s
Diva’s championship and lifts it above her head to the approval of the fans
before laying the title on top of Nikki and leaving the ring.
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| Alicia Fox |
Right out
of the gate here we are leaving the three NXT women in NXT. Despite people calling for them to be
promoted to the main roster. There should
be no rush to do this yet. First we have
to establish that there are women on the main roster already who have the chops
to start this divas revolution. Speaking of which it will never be called the
divas revolution, instead we will just be giving the divas more on air time for
better matches and actual character development. Alicia Fox is a good wrestler though you may
not know that judging by what she has done on the main roster, but when in NXT
she put on great matches. Having her
step up here changes a few things right on the get go first off to establish
that she is a capable wrestler in her own rights who doesn’t need to ride The
Bella’s coat tails and secondly with her turn against Nikki and Brie, Team
Bella is now only a couple week thing that is quickly forgotten about and kills
the whole team vs. team vs. team idea that was so prominent and disastrous to
this whole divas revolution thing.
With Alicia
stepping up we get her having a title match at the next PPV with Nikki barely
retaining with help from Brie and their “Twin Magic” move in which Nikki is
beaten down and Brie takes her place in the match without the other competitor
or referees knowledge to score a quick pinfall, usually a roll up or small
package. The next night the Bella’s mock
Alicia Fox saying that an honorary Bella could never compare to the real thing
and that they are done with her and her coattail riding. Nikki proclaims that she can’t be beat and
starts bragging saying that if anyone could last five minutes with her in the
ring she would give them a title shot.
To the surprise of the fans and The Bella’s themselves out comes Summer
Rae, another established wrestler while in NXT who has just been reduced to a
managerial role and dance partner since coming to the main roster. The Bella’s laugh at Summer Rae for thinking
she has a chance and tells the referee to ring the bell. Not only does Summer Rae surprise Nikki with
her offence she actually takes control of the match for a while before Brie
interferes giving Nikki the advantage.
Now full of confidence Nikki walking around the ring goading the fans as
the clock is ticking down. Around the
4:30 mark of the match with Nikki still mouthing off at the fans Summer Rae
rolls Nikki up for a small package and gets the three count. Not only does Summer Rae last the five
minutes with Nikki, she wins.
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| Summer Rae |
A title
match is set up at the next PPV once again Summer Rae starts the match off
strong and we get a fairly competitive match until Brie once again sticks her
nose in where it doesn’t belong and interferes in the match giving Nikki the
win. Once again we get another
surprisingly good divas match with another challenger on the main roster
established as someone who can take the title away from Nikki at any time.
Once again
the next night on Raw Nikki continues to brag about being the best and says
that she will prove it because although no one may have noticed it she is
starting to creep up on the record for the longest reigning Diva’s champion of
all time with less than two months to go. At the mention of that Natayla’s
music hits and she comes out on stage.
Natayla has been off TV for a little while helping her husband Tyson
Kidd in his recovery from his neck surgery earlier in the year but says that
Tyson is now able to take care of himself and that they were getting sick of
watching The Bella’s cheating to keep the Divas Championship around Nikki’s waist. She said that she had spoken to Stephanie
McMahon and that she has been granted a Divas Championship match at the next
PPV which is Summer Slam and vows to walk out of that match the new Diva’s
Champion. For the first time in a while
The Bella’s look legitimately concerned that Nikki will lose the title.
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| Natayla |
At Summer
Slam Natayla is dismantling Nikki Bella.
She is controlling the pace and style of the match and looks to have the
title won, even when Brie got up on the apron to interfere in the match Natayla
clotheslines her off the apron. Natayla
continues her dominance for a little longer and then finally puts Nikki in the
sharpshooter, the fans are going nuts it looks like we will have a new Diva’s
champion. Suddenly though Brie remerges
in the ring with the Diva’s title and just before Nikki could tap out Brie
clocks Natayla in the head causing a DQ victory for Natayla knowing that the
title can’t change hands on a disqualification.
Brie helps Nikki out of the ring and hands her the Diva’s title as they
walk backwards up the ramp not taking their eyes off of the fuming Natayla in
the ring.
The next
night on Raw the Bella’s are as confident and boastful as ever. Nikki says that she will become the longest
reigning WWE Diva’s Champion of all time because the record will be broken six
days before the next PPV and that she can go thirty days without defending the
title without being stripped of it and she doesn’t plan to defend it anymore
until the next PPV when she is the record holder. It is at this point that Nikki brings up that
Natayla may have beaten her by DQ the night before but wins and loses don’t
matter because at the end of the day she is still the champion and she will
become the longest reigning diva’s champion ever in three weeks which will
prove that she is better than anyone else.
It is at
this point that Stephanie McMahon comes out to the ring. She has seen enough,
this is where she gives her speech about the dominance of women in sports and
how WWE needs to take that step as well. She tells Nikki that she is a good
wrestler but wins and loses DO matter and that the way that she has been
retaining her title is a disgrace to herself and the entire divas locker
room. She tells Nikki that if she wants
to be the longest reigning divas champion she has to EARN it. She says that she is the boss so the not
defending the title for thirty days thing just won’t fly with her and that she
will be tested in the next three weeks by defending her divas title against the
diva’s that she has stolen victories from the last few months and that if she
tries to get disqualified or counted out in any of the matches she will lose
her title to that challenger. First up
she’ll defend the title against Alicia Fox, if she retains then the next week
it’s the same thing again against Summer Rae and if she retains then she has to
defend her title against Natayla on the eve of her breaking the record. If she wins all three matches she will have
earned her spot as the longest reigning divas champion. Nikki complains about it but Stephanie just
brushes it off and calls out a very game looking Alicia Fox stating that the
match will start immediately.
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| Stephanie McMahon |
Nikki and
Alicia once again have a very back and forth match and with the stipulation
that if Brie interferes Nikki loses the title its all on the up and up. After a hard fought match Nikki dodges
Alicia’s attempt at a spear causing Alicia to run shoulder first into the ring
post. Nikki than takes full advantage
and hits Alicia with her rack attack finisher for the narrow victory. Nikki has done it the first week but she has
two big title matches to go if she wants to be the longest reigning divas
champion.
The next
week on Raw its Summer Rae’s turn. Once
again Summer Rae takes the fight to Nikki in another good match that goes about
ten minutes. The fans are rallying behind Summer Rae but like Alicia Fox the
week before Summer makes a small mistake which Nikki is able to capitalize on
with a small package for the win. Summer
is upset with her mistake and clotheslines Nikki out of frustration but the
match is over now and Brie jumps in the ring and attacks Summer Rae, Nikki soon
gets up and joins her sister in the beat down.
As the beat down goes on though Nikki’s final challenger before she can
call herself the longest reigning divas champion, Natayla rushes to the ring to
save Summer Rae and chase The Bella’s out of the ring. Nikki is holding the title high above her
head as she backs away down the ramp screaming “The record is mine!” Nikki screaming that shows that to her the
title is secondary to the bragging rights she would get by keeping on to the
title. Natayla smiles and Nikki and
makes a motion of the title being around her own waist next week.
Finally
comes the third match the one that everyone had been waiting for. The fans can
sense a title change in the air. They
all believe that Natayla will dominate Nikki Bella again and without Brie to
run interference this time around are sure that she will not get the record
that means so much to her. Things starts
out just as everyone anticipated with Natayla taking control of the match early
on and despite a few flourishes of offence from Nikki here and there its
Natayla’s match. Once again Natayla puts
the sharpshooter on Nikki and it seems only a matter of time before Nikki taps
out but Natyala put the move on to close to the ropes allowing Nikki to grabs
the bottom rope forcing the referee to break the hold. Natayla has no trouble doing this and just
pulls Nikki out to the middle of the ring to apply the move again but when
doing so this time Nikki has just enough wherewithal to catch Natayla in a
small package to get the win. Nikki’s
music plays and the fans are stunned.
Nikki Bella will now be the longest reigning Diva’s champion. Natyala is
stunned, she can’t believe that she got caught in a small package and lost the
match fair and square when everything seemed to be going her way. Brie jumps in the ring to help Nikki up and
celebrate, Nikki can’t believe she won either and she has truly earned the
record. Natayla who still hasn’t left
the ring finally offers her hand to Nikki shakes it and says “You win tonight
but that title will still be mine eventually so hold on to it as tightly as you
can because your days are still numbered.” Natayla then leaves the ring with
Nikki watching her looking afraid.
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| Brie Bella |
At this
point her music stops playing and Stephanie’s music comes on. She walks out on
stage and congratulates Nikki on proving her and the entire WWE universe
wrong. Stephanie says that Nikki did
earn the record tonight but that doesn’t entitle her to a night off because
this Sunday is the Night of Champions PPV in which ALL titles have to be defended,
including the WWE Divas championship. She said that Nikki has surprised her
though, she has beaten every diva on the roster and doesn’t know who her
challenger will be for Night of Champions but if Nikki is the longest reigning
Diva’s champion of all time now then that shouldn’t matter to her, if she is
the best she should be able to stand up to any competition without knowing who
they are in advance. Since she has no
idea who she will choose to be Nikki’s opponent though she offers all of the
divas a chance to come speak to her and plead their case to be the number one
contender at Night of Champions. Stephanie then leaves the stage with Nikki’s
celebration now ruined and looking terrified in the ring to what may come next.
At Night of
Champions Nikki, flaked by Brie is in the ring waiting on her opponent when
Stephanie comes out. Stephanie said she
was surprised by how many of the divas came to her this past week pleading
their cases. She said that she even
received calls from Diva’s that had long since left the company wanting a shot
at the title to teach Nikki a lesson and to humble her, she mentions names like
Lita and Trish Stratus but says at the end of the day despite their impressive
legacies they are retired and not wanting to come back full time which is not
best for business. What IS best for business is continuing to expand the diva’s
division with stronger competition so when this next diva came to her she new
she had found her new number one contender.
With that said Stephanie looks towards the stage when some new music
comes on and we get the long awaited debut of Charlotte.
Once again
Nikki looks stunned but then smiles. This is only one of the women from NXT,
the developmental system, there is no way that Charlotte will be able to
compete with a real WWE Diva. All of
that goes away though when Charlotte gets in the ring and is standing face to
face with Nikki. Nikki isn’t scared and
is just mouthing off to Charlotte saying that she isn’t even worthy of being in
the same ring with her. Charlotte looks
around to the fans then slaps Nikki in the face. The bell rings and Charlotte
takes the action to Nikki, much like Natayla in their first match Charlotte is
dominating the match Nikki isn’t even getting any offence in at all and before
she knows it Charlotte has her locked in The Figure Four Leg lock, her father
Ric Flair’s signature move, in the middle of the ring. Nikki is doing her best not to tap out when
Charlotte does her father one better by bridging herself into what she calls
“The Figure Eight” applying even more pressure on Nikki and forcing her to tap
out. We have a new WWE Divas Champion, Charlotte.
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| Charlotte |
To show it
was no fluke Charlotte does the very same thing again the next night on Raw
when Nikki Bella evokes her rematch clause for the title. With this done it takes Nikki Bella out of
the title picture for the foreseeable future, shows that Charlotte is a real
competitor to be taken seriously deserving of the Diva’s Championship after
knocking off the longest reigning divas champion in her first two nights. It also opens the floodgates for other new
divas from NXT to start showing up to challenge for the title.
Before they
do that though Charlotte’s first opponent is named as Natayla. This is because Natayla was the biggest
threat to Nikki’s title reign and because both women had a match of the year
candidate for the NXT Women’s Championship just the year before. Natayla could also could also make a point to
bring up that match and how she feel’s that if they were to wrestle again now
things would be different. Once again
they have a show stealer with Charlotte coming out on top. Natayla shakes Charlottes hand after the
match giving her her endorsement as The Diva’s Champion and really solidifying
her in the eyes of the fans.
Once again
the next on Raw Charlotte is in need of a number one contender for her
title. She says she wants to be a
fighting champion and wants to take on the toughest competition that WWE has to
offer. With that said Paige comes out
and says that none of this would have happened if it wasn’t for her standing up
against The Bella’s and inspiring other women such as Charlotte to step up in the
first place. She says she is tired of
sitting back and watching lesser talented divas get their shots at the title
while she keeps being passed by. She
reminds the world that she was the first NXT Women’s Champion and that all the
leaps and bounds the divas division has made (Note, she never mentions a Divas
Revolution) was because of her. She also
tells Charlotte she can only be second best and the only reason she won the NXT
Women’s championship is because she had to relinquish it because she had made
the leap to WWE and won the Divas championship on her first night in the
company, a feat that she neglects to acknowledge that Charlotte also did. Charlotte hears enough of Paige’s ranting and
grants her a match for the Diva’s championship which is set up for Survivor
Series.
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| Paige |
The build
up is intense with plenty of one-upmanship the entire time with each diva
trying to prove they are the better with Paige taking the villain route and
taking the cheap shots whenever she can to gain the upper hand. Finally, a contract signing is set up in the
main event slot of the Raw before Survivor Series with both divas once again
taking shots at each other and saying they are the best. Finally, Charlotte says “I guess we will find
out who really is the best at Survivor Series and extends her hand to Paige
over the table. Paige slowly but
eventually accepts the handshake only for her to let go and push the table over
on Charlotte she than takes advantage and jumps on top of Charlotte and beating
on her until the referees intervene and break them up. Paige says “I’ll see you
this Sunday.” As she is being escorted away and Charlotte looks on furiously.
Survivor
Series comes with a great match between Charlotte and Paige that goes nearly
twenty minutes and steals the show. For
any of the fans out there that were still doubters this match is the one that
finally proves that the diva’s division should be taken seriously and is as
must see as any of the matches from their male counterparts. The match ends with Charlotte once again
retaining her title by making Paige tap out to the figure eight.
The next night on Raw Charlotte
comes out to a heroes welcome she says that she proved that she was the best
last night by beating Paige and retaining the Diva’s Championship. She says that she wants to continue wrestling
only the best to prove that she is worthy of being the Champion. Charlotte also shows the first sign of a heel
turn when she mentions that although they tore the house down the night before
that Paige doesn’t just get a rematch she explains this by saying no matter how
good Paige was that she was better and that if Paige wants another show she has
to earn it, which causes the fans to boo. She than says that she believes that
the number one contender should earn her spot and that she won’t face anyone
who doesn’t deserve it. Charlotte insists
that a battle royal take place featuring the top divas in WWE with the winner
getting the title shot at the next PPV and that she is even willing to give the
other divas in WWE a week to prepare.
The next week on Raw Charlotte
comes out to ringside to give commentary on the battle royal and scout who the
next number one contender for the title will be. The battle royal consists of nearly every
Divas on the roster including Paige, Brie Bella, Alicia Fox, Summer Rae,
Natayla, Naomi, Tamina, as well as some filler like Emma, who although great
recently went back to NXT and is just here for this match because she was a
similar face as well as Cameron and Rosa Mendes. Notably absent is Nikki Bella who is now out
with injury. After a hard fought battle
royal it comes down to Paige and Naomi with Paige prevailing in the end and
getting the title shot that Charlotte refused to give her. After the match Charlotte gets in the ring
with Paige and the two start mouthing off to each other Paige points to the diva’s
championship around the shoulder of Charlotte points to her waist, smiles and
turns to leave. When she does though
Charlotte completes her heel turn by attacking Paige from behind continuing to
take advantage of her until the referees intervene much like they did at the
contract signing. The two have now
switched roles with Charlotte the heel and Paige the face.
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| Charlotte and Ric Flair |
Starting at the Tables, Ladders
and Chairs PPV Charlotte is now accompanied to the ring by her father Ric Flair
who professes that Charlotte is the new dirtiest player in the game and will
beat anyone who stands in her way. Paige
then comes out and the two have another great match ending when Flair distracts
Paige in a failed attempt to trip her from the outside. It was enough to get Paige’s attention and
for Charlotte to take advantage and roll her up for a school boy pin while
holding a hand full of tights. Charlotte
retains but this time she cheats to do so to get over the fact that she is
indeed now a villain.
The next night on Raw Charlotte
comes to the ring with her father and talks about how she beat Paige twice in a
row fair and square without any help from anyone. The blatant lie only causes more people to
boo her. She then says that something
has been bugging her though and that is the fact that she labeled the Diva’s
champion. She says a diva is usually a
demanding bitch who asks for outrageous things.
She asks her father if he thinks that she is a demanding bitch to which
he denies. Charlotte then says she isn’t
a diva she is a women and plans to be treated as such. She says that the term diva and the divas championship
does not apply to her and that starting the next week she will retire the divas
championship and bring back something more suited to herself, The WWE Women’s
Championship.
The next week on Raw the show
starts off with a red carpet in the ring as well as a pedestal which is covered
by a sheet. Stephanie McMahon comes out
followed by Charlotte who still has the diva’s championship and Ric Flair. Stephanie says how excited she is by the
leaps and bounds the diva’s division has made and tells Charlotte that she is
right the term diva is old, outdated and has no place in todays WWE. She says how from now on the WWE divas will
be called what they truly are, women.
She then removes the sheet from the pedestal to revel the old WWE
Women’s Title and hands it over to Charlotte who puts down the WWE divas title
and parades The Women’s Title around the ring above her head. She then says that she is the only TRUE woman
in WWE and says that none of the divas in the back are worthy of a shot at her women’s
title flushing away all the good will she made back with the fans for
resurrecting The Women’s Title. At that
point we hear music that we have never heard on Raw before the music of NXT
competitor Becky Lynch.
Becky makes her way to the ring
and says that she has never been a WWE diva and was always called a woman in
NXT. She also says that she has been
waiting a long time for an opportunity to get to the main roster and now that
she is there she will make the best of it.
She challenges Charlotte to a match for the newly resurrected Women’s
Championship at The Royal Rumble.
Charlotte however says no because she has done nothing to earn it. She says that she can’t just come into WWE on
her first night and expect a title shot because that is just not how things
work around here. Charlotte completely
ignores the fact that that is exactly how things worked for her to avoid the
challenge which the announcers bring up.
Unfortunately for her though Stephanie McMahon is quick to remind her
who the boss is and thinking that the two would make a great match makes it for
The Royal Rumble.
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| Becky Lynch |
Over the next few weeks Becky
wrestles several of the top women in WWE winning each time out to show that she
is more than worthy of challenging Charlotte.
At The Royal Rumble they have another great match to be added to the
list of great matches the women in WWE have had over the last several months
that ends when the match is taken to the outside and both women are counted
out. Charlotte retains her title and
Becky is beside herself for letting her dream of becoming Women’s champion slip
through her hands.
Its not over for Becky though as
on the next night on Raw Stephanie McMahon makes a rematch for Fast Lane
between the two because she and the rest of the WWE Universe wants a definite
winner. Becky is ready for her second
chance while Charlotte complains because Becky had her shot didn’t get the job
done and should now move to the back of the line with the rest of the losers in
the back. Her words fall on deaf ears
though and the rematch happens at Fast Lane.
Both women battle it out again in a hard fought match that once again
spills to the outside and we get a repeat of the finish from last months Royal
Rumble with both women being counted out.
Charlotte starts to celebrate but it quickly comes to an end when
Stephanie comes out saying that the end of that match wasn’t good enough and
she won’t allow it to happen a second time, she orders the match be restarted
and this time there are no count-outs.
Becky is ecstatic about the announcement but as she turns around she is
meet with a boot to the face by Charlotte as the bell rings again. Charlotte takes advantage and then locks
Becky into the figure eight forcing her to tap out. Once again Charlotte retains the Women’s
Championship.
Unfortunately for Charlotte
though the night still isn’t over as she grabs the Women’s title and holds it
over her head her music stops and is replaced by more music that had yet to be
heard on WWE but music the fans respond to at once, its former NXT champion
Sasha Banks who has had several match of the year candidates in NXT over the
last few months and is now moving up to the big time. The fans are going nuts over Banks arrival in
WWE as she gets into the ring. Sasha and
Charlotte have a stare down in the middle of the ring with the fans chanting
“This is awesome.” Sasha looks at the
WWE Women’s Championship and then points to the WrestleMania sign hanging from
the rafters. Charlotte looks at the sign then at Sasha and wanting to prove all
of her doubter’s wrong nods her head and leaves the ring with her father in
tow. As she leaves Charlotte points to the Wrestlemania sign and shouts that
she is going to steal the show and retain the title. As she disappears to the back Sasha Bank’s
music plays again while she stays in the ring for a few moments soaking up the
love from the fans…..
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| Sasha Banks |
Loved reading thiis thanks
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