It was a disgrace, disgusting, and a huge slap in the face to not only an amazing third-generation wrestler in Natalya, but to the entire Hart family. It was just laughable, a joke, yet horribly sad all at the same time to have to witness Nattie Neidhart be made to tap out to someone with half her skill and half her bulk!
Amazingly, Maryse took the Divas Championship off of McCool a mere six months later, with Maria as special referee for the match. This was probably all just a ploy to set up for a heel-turn by Michelle, who had gone around attacking other divas during that time, most notably Eve. Maria suffered a beatdown after Maryse's victory, and the crowd barely reacted, if even at all. Predictably, Melina ended up feuding with Michelle, who constantly declared that she was going to take away her championship.
It was also during this time that Alicia Fox was paired up with McCool, once again, as a way to get her over. For three months, Melina was booked to look like the weakest of champions while McCool was booked to the moon and back to look like the "dominant" diva of SmackDown!
One would have thought she was Beth Phoenix—minus the muscles and charisma. It was really painful to watch. And it all led to the two fighting for Melina's championship at the same pay-per-view at which McCool "made history," a year earlier, only with a slightly shorter name in The Bash.
Let's not kid ourselves here Melina was buried at that show. She was booked horribly, barely able to get any offense or defense in, and was robbed. It was one of the most sickening displays I've ever had to watch in my plus years as a pro-wrestling fan, and very frighteningly reminiscent of Triple H burying Randy Orton during his first WWE Championship reign. While the two continued to feud for awhile longer after McCool "earned" the right to call herself the first diva to ever hold both the Divas and Women's championships, Melina never regained the title.
And thankfully, the pain her career had to endure came to an end by October, when she returned to RAW to win the Divas title that same night. However, someone else had to pay the price by going over to SmackDown! The two started teasing and taunting the SmackDown! It was a cheap way to get heat, but it seemed to work, probably mostly because, overall, Mickie was the most over diva in the entire company. I should also point out that McCool, while Women's champion, barely ever defended the title though the same held true about her Divas title reign as well.
Of course, the "Piggie James" angle wasn't about the title so much as it was a hurtful, juvenile, junior high-like one. It was also to set up the official teaming of Michelle and Layla, who were by now known collectively as "LayCool. This made zero sense to me, since LayCool were infamous for their fat jokes and Guerrero was not exactly what you would call thin. I believe the only reason for that was yet another attempt at getting Michelle over as a heel.
What better way to do that than to put the woman who gets more heat than any other alongside her? Mickie James went on to win the Women's Championship from McCool at this year's Royal Rumble, but her reign was cut short due to a staph infection in her leg. Who did she drop the title to? Michelle McCool, of course, and I failed to see the logic in that. Vickie Guerrero was still strangely appearing with them at ringside and in backstage skits.
In fact, she seemed to be the character setting up the feud between McCool and the Glamazon, who had finally turned full-fledged babyface after several weeks of teasing at a turn.
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