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IS IT TIME FOR WWE TO DROP THE DIVAS NAME?, S.D. JONES, WWE BOOKING AND MORE

Do you think it's time for WWE to drop the "Divas" branding? I understand the need to have their trademarked terms, but couldn't they just be referred to as female Superstars? The term Divas has so much negative connotations, with the lack of good female wrestlers until recently, the Diva Search etc, that it seems that a good move would be to break ties with the old ways, and have a bunch of singles competitors having meaningful matches, instead of placing them in glorified high school cliques. It's such a waste to see them tear the house down in NXT, only to be meaningless on the main roster.

No. Just as WWE branded the term, they can change the meaning. The "Total Divas" reality show brings the company a lot of money. There is no reason to change the term. They can emphasize wrestler and women's wrestling more, but there's no reason to drop a term they have spent a decade cultivating into a meaningful term.

I know Logic has no place in WWE but after watching the Sting title match and the fact that it kind of came out of nowhere you have to ask "what happened to the WWE that used to plan things out in advance." I mean wouldn't this have been a better story. Sting beats HHH at Wrestlemania. Sting comes back and says "I have beaten you and now I will beat your protege for the title" Rollins ends up winning and then he can gloat that he beat the man that HHH couldn't.This now gives a reason Sting came after Rollins, it gives Rollins something to hold over HHH's head and it gives more reason for the inevitable Rollins/HHH match. Finally it doesn't make Sting look like such a loser who can't win a match in WWE and makes him more marketable to people who have no idea who he is (which is probably more than half of their audience).

You make a good point, but at the end of the day, they went with the storyline Vince McMahon wanted. I do agree they would be far better served to plan things out in advance the way they used to but in the era of quarter hour ratings and cable network partners paying rights fees, they have to serve a lot more masters then they used to.

I know that Kong/Kharma left the WWE due to pregnancy a few years back. When she re-joined TNA the Divas division was nowhere near the caliber it is, kinda, now. Is there any bad blood between WWE and Kong?

I haven't heard of any heat between the two sides. WWE just never made the decision to bring her back.

Where is S.D. Jones?

Sadly, Jones passed away in 2008 after suffering a stroke. He was living in his native Antigua at the time. He had been retired for some time and his last public appearance before a WWE audience was inducting Tony Atlas into the WWE Hall of Fame.

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