Vintage Week In Review For Women's Wrestling #3 & 4

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This is the week beginning December 2nd-December 8th

Raw:
The first Diva to make an appearance is the Duchess of Dudleyville at ringside for Bubba's match against Kane. During the match Stacy grabs Kane by the foot and he stalks her at ringside (oh how times have changed). She gets involved again by climbing up on the apron and this helps Bubba to get the win. Once again, managing is an art in itself and it's always good to see a manager do more than just stand at ringside and clap. Stacy really should have done more managing in her WWE career as she was pretty good at it, though she doesn't really work as a heel. She's just a natural face in my opinion.

More of the Team Xtreme drama moves along as the brothers are bickering backstage and Lita tries to separate them but of course that only intensifies the war of words. Matt then announces that Lita will be the special guest referee for his and Jeff's match at Vengeance. Things just got extra juicy.

Trish Stratus is walking backstage and she bumps into Crash Holly (!) who wishes her good luck this Sunday for her match against Jacqueline. She's looking for The Rock actually and Crash helps her out. Oh and the Brooklyn Brawler was there too.
Later on she enters The Rock's (surprisingly small) dressing room to thank him for saving her from Vince McMahon which in WWE language is a peck on the cheek. The Rock gives her the WWE language for "you're welcome" which is of course a big passionate smooch on the lips. And yes the arena did explode.

Trish Stratus & The Rock def. Kurt Angle & Vince McMahon:
Our main event has the Women's Champion competing against two former flames and Vince does a rather creepy booty-pop as she makes her entrance. Naturally Rock and Angle work most of the match by themselves and the action is none too shabby. When Vince tags himself in he actually knocks Trish right off the apron. She tags herself in and starts stomping the holy hell out of Vince before laying a well placed heel to the McMahon family jewels. Kurt Angle takes exception to this and knocks her down from behind. The Women's Champion responds with a low blow and tags The Rock back in. Vince chases Trish from ringside but Stone Cold appears to sort him out and that helps Rock get the win.
Not much in the way of wrestling but still highly entertaining to see Trish go to town on Vince, the fans were eating that up. And of course it's always good to see a Diva in the main event. Minimal build up for the title match on Sunday since the challenger hasn't actually been seen on TV since the last PPV so we can see that WWE's build-ups haven't always been that fleshed out. 7/10

Smackdown:
Stacy is up to her old tricks again at ringside for a 6-man tag match. She throws William Regal a set of brass knux to use but she gets her comeuppance as Big Show drags her into the ring, puts her over his knee and gives her a good old spanking. Hmm, he's in tears after bumping into AJ but that he's okay with? Ah, there's something nostalgic about seeing that. Until I was 13, I thought the only way to punish a woman was with a good spanking.

And as a result of losing to The Rock & Trish on Raw, Vince must now kiss The Rock's ass on Smackdown. During the in-ring promo, The Rock brings Trish out with the implication that Vince is going to kiss her ass instead. Trish lowers the back of her pants and Vince is drooling but Rocky stops him and announces that he's got an even bigger ass for Vince to kiss. And it's the return of Rikishi. You can pretty much guess where this goes from here. WWE do those good old humiliation congas so well.

Crash Holly def. Jacqueline:
The video for this is unavailable but this is the second of four intergender matches these two have had. The description just says Crash pins Jackie using the ropes for leverage. She gets in his face afterwards and ends up knocking him out with a hard forearm.
Gotta love it whenever Jackie got in the ring with the guys. It seems to be a thing that they'd often have her do intergender stuff if they wanted to give her momentum going into a PPV. The match with Trish at Vengeance certainly doesn't seem to mean anything though at the time it was good to give her actual competition in a match after all she'd been doing is all the silliness with Stacy. N/A

So the final week before a PPV didn't inspire much hope for the actual match itself but it had the women featured very prominently, the Women's Champion in a main event segment and one with the boss at that while the #1 contender got some build up. Lita also was heavily involved in the Team Xtreme storyline while Stacy shows us the art of managing.

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Vintage Week In Review For Women's Wrestling #4
This is the week beginning December 8th-December 14th

Vengeance:
During the Matt/Jeff match with Lita as the special referee things ended controversially as Lita counted to three and gave Jeff the win while Matt's foot was on the bottom rope unknown to her. Oh dear.

Trish Stratus def. Jacqueline to retain the Women's Championship:
This one starts off basically enough, Jackie taking control with a back body drop. Trish gets a couple of kicks to the puppies that has Jackie seemingly legit pissed off. Jackie goes apeshit on the rookie champ with some aggressive stomping and a couple of body slams. Trish gets a bit of offence on her side with a short-arm clothesline. Things continue to fall apart as Trish attempts a cringeworthy bridging roll up. Jackie gets *another* back body drop and a couple of elbows right to the face. Trish chops Jackie a couple of times before going for the Stratusfaction. Jackie blocks it and drops Trish right on her ass. Some more stiff kicks from Jackie and the two of them eventually clonk heads. Trish gets the win with a backslide and the two shake hands afterwards.
Well that was painful on so many levels. There's apparently a story behind this match - when Trish got those early kicks in, she got Jackie right on her chest and winded her which really pissed her off so she started stiffing her for the rest of the match. Things certainly looked awkward in the middle there, almost as if they went off script and tried to freestyle things. There were a couple of nice spots but not much else to say except what you'd expect with one worker deliberately making their opponent look bad. I'm not going to comment on that either since I'm not sure if anything has ever been confirmed and that's just what I've heard. Oh and 3:45 for a PPV match which is something that certainly wouldn't happen today, never mind what they get on Raw. 2/10

Raw:
The Dudley Boyz def. The Rock & Trish Stratus to retain the Tag Team titles:
Yes, you read that right. As expected Rock works most of the match on his own and when he actually wants to make a tag, Stacy runs over to pull Trish down from the apron. Trish eventually does make a tag and delivers the Wazzup headbutt to poor (or fortunate) D-Von Dudley. Stacy gets up on the apron and Rock drags her into the ring, body slams her and Trish does the headbutt again. Test runs down to interfere and while The Rock is distracted, the Dudleys hit the 3D on Trish to retain.
Pretty cool set-up here and I do miss WWE doing intergender stuff (darned PG rating). Trish giving the Wazzup headbutt was a golden moment and it's a surprising touch to see creative team not burying their Women's Champion. Even though she lost to men, they had Test distracting The Rock and the Dudleys double teaming her which is something I admire. In TNA it was a different story when Awesome Kong got made to look completely weak against the men. Overall rating: 7/10

Lita is backstage apologising to Matt Hardy for her little goof last night. She's apparently booked to face him in a handicap match later on. Matt says "like Team Xtreme, you and me are breaking up" and slams the door in her face.

Matt Hardy def. Lita & Jeff Hardy in an intergender Handicap match:
Lita tries to calm the two brothers down but Matt knocks her aside and starts the match anyway. Jeff and Matt work the match on their own for the most part but towards the end, Lita has clearly had enough of Matt's nonsense and scales the top rope. She lands a picture perfect Litacanrana to a thunderous pop from the crowd. She ends up making a blind tag while she's comforting Jeff and that gives Matt the chance to roll her up for three.
Another dose of intergender action though Lita did considerably less than Trish, though her one spot was enjoyable. Going back to what I said about the other match, good to see the WWE not burying one of their big stars by having Matt end things with a distraction finish. 6/10

Smackdown:
Lita is walking around backstage and Test approaches her, asking her out (the actual quote is "when you're with Test, you forget about the rest") but she says she wants to be alone. Him not taking no for an answer prompts Jeff Hardy to challenge him to a match.

Torrie Wilson also made an appearance at the side of her boyfriend Tajiri as he retained his Cruiserweight title against Crash Holly. After the match Crash attacks Tajiri from behind and goes after Torrie. The Hurricane appears on the scene to save her but no sign of Mighty Molly (sigh).

And rounding up the Diva segments has Stacy Keibler once again getting involved in the Dudley Boyz's tag team match by getting up on the apron. Albert responds to this by pulling her skirt down to her ankles. Oh my

Again not the best week considering there was a lame PPV match and no actual women's matches on either show. Still sufficient use of Divas in segments so it's not a total loss.