How can WWE save the Divas Division?

Seeing Stephanie McMahon on Raw over the last few weeks left me reminiscing about the days when she, Trish Stratus, Lita and the many other female wrestlers were involved in some way in Raw each and every week.

It led me to ponder about today's product. With so many talented females like Natalya, AJ and Tamina Snuka why has the division fallen flat on its face?

I don't think that the shift to a more family friendly product can be blamed. Rumor has it that Triple H isn't a fan of the division but I don't know if there is any truth in that, especially if you think that Hunter was responsible for bringing Chyna into the wrestling business.

 

When AJ Lee became Daniel Bryan's girlfriend and later the Raw GM I thought there would have been a resurgence in visible female characters. With her match against Kaitlyn taking place on Payback I still hold out for this reality, and with good things coming out about Paige in NXT it seems a shift towards wrestling ability over just a lady's looks is happening. This can only be a step forward.

One of the 'Did You Know' cards has trumpeted the female audience of WWE Programming at a 36% share of the total viewing numbers. While it's great that a company with a high youth audience is taking part in campaigns like Be A Star isn't it about time that WWE took steps to show positive female role models to the young girs in the audience? In a time where childhood obesity makes daily news headlines and young women suffering with self esteem issues WWE could use their strong, beautiful and intelligent women in an engaging manner to help inspire youngsters to be happy and healthy. 

In my 13 plus years as a wrestling fan my interest in female wrestling has waned and I think that is mainly because I have no interest in watching 'models'* pretend to know how to wrestle. It's turned the divas matches into 'Piss breaks' for many fans.

Scrap the Barbie belt and bring back the Women's Championship and give those ladies a chance to show the audience that they really are talented. The show with E!, Total Divas, isn't what I want to see from them though

*I know that they aren't from model backgrounds but in recent times it has certainly been a sense of style of substance in the recruitment of women wrestlers.