Bleacher Report article: WWE Payback 2013 Belonged to AJ Lee and Kaitlyn

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Much of the talk about WWE Payback 2013 is sure to center around the night's intense Divas Championship match between AJ Lee and Kaitlyn.

The inaugural edition of WWE's newest pay-per-view event featured another great battle between Chris Jericho and CM Punk, a slickly done double turn and a vicious Three Stages of Hell match for the WWE title, but it was the women who told the best story on Sunday night.

No match exceeded expectations like Kaitlyn vs. AJ. No match felt more personal and powerful than AJ's title win over her former friend.





Punk and Jericho did a masterful job, but theirs was a clash fans had seen several times before. Dolph Ziggler and Alberto Del Rio's role reversal is sure to make for interesting TV on Monday's WWE Raw and beyond, but this night belonged to the Divas champ and challenger.

How often does the Divas title match trend worldwide on Twitter?

It was the culmination of a story that has been slowly building since both women were in NXT.

Back then, AJ and Kaitlyn were best friends and tag team partners. By the time they clashed in front of the Chicago fans at Payback, their relationship had rotted out and festered for all of us to see.

Kaitlyn thought she had a like-minded secret admirer who dug The Simpsons and appreciated her for both her beauty and quirkiness. Instead, it was revealed to be AJ playing the most heartless of tricks. After humiliating Kaitlyn on live TV, AJ now had the psychological edge going into their match.

It was rage and hunger for payback that fueled Kaitlyn and helped her dominate her foe at first, but it was also what caused her to lose her title. Like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, lusting for revenge had her lose focus and lead to her own demise.





Kaitlyn began the match by pounding on AJ and tossing her over the announce table.

She played the hurt hero while AJ played the devious and callous torturer. AJ mocked Kaitlyn, at one point saying, "You need help?" as the champion tried to rise to her feet.

You don't get a "This is awesome!" chant from the famously opinionated Chicago fans without earning it, and both AJ and Kaitlyn certainly did.

As one of the better Divas matches in recent memory neared its end, Kaitlyn nailed AJ with a massive spear. The move sent AJ flying down on the mat, seemingly out cold. Kaitlyn had the match won here, but her hatred distracted her.

She lifted AJ's head and blew a mocking kiss to her.





It was this delay that allowed AJ to kick out, and it was this moment that catapulted this match into show-stealing territory. It was a testament to how much this was more than a normal match; this was two women wading through the ruins of their former friendship.

The Black Widow was then used to perfection as a means to create drama. AJ had slapped it on earlier, only to have Kaitlyn eventually find her way out. In the end, it was the move that did Kaitlyn in, that took advantage of her revenge-born haze, that became her punishment for failure.

AJ and Kaitlyn proved how great a story they can tell, given the time and attention the Divas division has been lacking. Hopefully, WWE officials watched this match and thought of ways to continue this rivalry and to further showcase their female talent.

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Ive proved my point lol. Bleacher Report is a joke of a website. All of their articles are written by teenagers who just started watching wrestling, or WWE marks. Ive not seen ONE TNA article on that entire site.

They actually do have a good point TBH I mean even if this site is a "Joke".That Match last night was great this was probably the best match the both of them have ever put on in the WWE.And this all happen in just 7 Days yet it felt like there feud had lasted for a very long time.If the WWE can Continue giving these girls Storylines,More Time in matches,and Feuds like this than the divas division can be really good.BUT Im not getting my hopes up after this.Because You Know How WWE can always ruin a good thing so I'm just gonna hope and pray they continue what's going on now because I'm really intrested in what is gonna happen tonight on RAW Diva Wise.

OK, how about PWTorch's comment?

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The real surprise of the night was the Divas Title match. All I can say is wow. Kaitlyn and A.J. had few blown spots, worked a good pace, and had awesome nearfalls mixed with really good storytelling that was hardly found in any other match on the show. Working in aspects like Kaitlyn blowing a kiss to A.J. and losing the match because of it were really good. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see a crazed Kaitlyn do a double-turn with A.J. (alongside Ziggler's turn), setting up some potentially great re-matches in the future. These two really need to be congratulated on having the best WWE Divas match since... 2006? Can I say that? Yeah, let's go with 2006.

Thats better, but the card from top to bottom with the exception of the main event was amazing, the crowd was invested the entire time

I agree with Dead. Bleachereport is trash. I mean people writing articles why Reigns is holding back the shield. They had a okay match but I fact of the matter is people cared way more for other matches on the card.

in fairness Chicago is pretty renowned for being a pretty responsive crowd, so the continued investment through the entire event to me isn't that surprising.....but it is nice to hear a diva match be praised like this....especially considering how green Kaitlyn is

I am intrested to see how they go with Kaitlyn if they try to move on wwe flops hard with this

they flop a lot with divas....once they start to get reaction, either they get injured and their returns are uninspired (ie Layla) or they lose the title and then are just dropped (ie Natalya)

Kaitlyn got people intrest along with AJ. I think they need to continue the storyline with both even if they push a new challenger

they just need to keep up with storylines....it's been proved over the years that storylines that are developed and continued get the crowd interested....the stuff with LayCool v Nattie/Beth got people interested...there where certainly interested in anything Eve at the beginning of last year, and this Kaitlyn/AJ thing is another testiment to that.

What they should do is bring the guys in (Dolph and Big E) and Give Kaitlyn some help with 2 guys don't know who.Just have big e and Dolph be like distractions make it look like Kaitlyn was so close to beat AJ but gets distracted by Dolph and Big E so she loses and AJ cheats her way to win.Something like Stephanie Title Run when Kurt and HHH Helped her during her battles with Lita.

I think Kaitlyn could team up with Mark Henry if he is staying. Her wanting to beat down AJ and Him wanting to induct Big E into the Hall of Pain