You are trying to lump the females of the WWE and the males into the same basket and it just doesn't work. First of all there are far less female wrestlers in the WWE than there are men. And out of that small group only a handful are good, the rest are crap.
AJ Lee has done just about everything there is to do in the division. She rose to the top and won the title numerous times. She's pretty much fought every Diva that there is over and over again, and unless they start bringing up talent from NXT, what more is there for her to do. The only thing she hasn't done is join Total Diva's, and kudos to her for not doing so.
I think she does care about wrestling and the fans. If she didn't she wouldn't have come back after her marriage. Don't forget an important fact. When the WWE fired CM Punk on his wedding day, it was also her wedding day. I wonder how she felt knowing that the company she works for thought so little of her husband that they fired him on their wedding day. I for one wouldn't have taken kindly to that. I'm sure the WWE probably only thought about that afterwards.
And there is nothing wrong with using the WWE as a stepping stone to something better. Is anyone coming down on the Rock because he went onto bigger and better things? When Hollywood came knocking on his door with multi-million dollar contracts to make movies, should he have told them to piss off? Should he have told them he was turning down fame and fortune to tour 300 days a year and put his body on the line every night? Of course he didn't, he grabbed the brass ring and went for it, and look at him today. Any wrestler on the roster today would have done the same thing.
Obviously you don't have kids if you think raising a family is an easier gig. I can tell you from experience, and as a mother of a 23 year old son, it is not easier.
Maybe what she meant when she said the future was bright was the fact that she is now married and looking forward to having a family. Times change and people change with them.
We don't own these wrestlers, they are there to entertain us. And I would like to think that they know within themselves when it's time to hang up the boots. That's a decision only they can make, and I wish her all the best in whatever the future holds for her and what she decides to do.
Well good is clearly debatable, and AJ is one of the few females given matches of any decent amount so of course her matches are going to seem much better. And you can;t lump them together because women just don't treat wrestling like the men do. Clearly at some point women stuck with the sport, hell Moolah had a 10 year reign, just like the men did in her time.
I mean tons of male wrestlers do all they can, then they don't quit because guess what? If nobody ever stays no one is there to make new people look good and thus we get the diva division. When AJ is considered the veteran even though she has only been on the main roster for like 3 years there is a major problem.
Well it is a problem if that means there can never be a divas divsion, because it's just a revolving door with each diva using it to get somewhere easier. Think if right now Wade barrett was the veteran of the male wrestlers, no one who had been around longer then him was there? The roster would be cut super short which would mean they either have to make do or fill it with subpar talent. The WWE works to make you into a star, you leaving just means all that time was mostly wasted.
Personally I don't think the Rock cares about wrestling, the wwe, or the fans one bit. I don't blame him, but at the same time if you truly loved doing something you wouldn't jump the first chance you get to do something else. You just don't.
Of course we don't own them, and if she was any other Diva I wouldn't be saying this. But just like the Rock, she constantly brings up her love of wrestling and how she always dreamed of doing this and how the WWE has given her, her dream. If this is truly what she worked her whole life towards and her goal and she loved it as much as she says. She wouldn't leave after a few years. because you wouldn't do that to something you supposedly love so much.
People actually mercilessly heckled The Rock when they found out he was leaving the WWE to go make movies. At the end of the match where he loses the WWE title to Lesnar, he was showered in "You Sold Out" chants, which honestly, is understandable given what a star The Rock was at the time.
Anywho, on topic... I don't think it would be hypocritical at all if she decides to leave once her contract is up. That's her right. As for your argument that we have not had a top Diva last more than a decade, it's probably because wrestling takes much more of a toll on their bodies than the men, and also, Diva's can't pump themselves full of steroids and pain killers to numb themselves like the men can. AJ Lee is not, just now getting everything she's asked for; she's already accomplished everything that she possibly could and personally, I think her run is almost over. I get the feeling she wants to settle down and start a family soon, and that probably won't happen while she's still with the company.
I don't think it's hypocritical, because it's a known fact that AJ Lee was a MASSIVE wrestling fan growing up, and always dreamed about making it to the WWE... she's not a "fake" Diva because she has a serious love for the sport. I think her definition of a fake Diva, is somebody who gets over in the WWE solely based off their looks. Somebody who can't wrestle and is glorified for the sole reason of having a nice rack and a fat ass (so to speak...), and who's main goal is becoming an actress, model, etc.
Like Navi said, we don't own these people. Sure we can be pissed off when somebody like Punk decides not to honor his contract, but it's AJ Lee's sole right to leave after she's completed all her obligations.
Of course it's her right. But with all she claimed, how can it not be hypocritical to leave before giving back at all and after only a few years? It might take more of a toll if they were remotely doing the same amount of bumps/spots. But I refuse to believe that any diva is hurting more currently with how little they wrestle. I'm surprised when they get five minutes and they don't even go much longer then usual at house shows. Her run took three years, which is a showing of the sad state of the diva division. because every diva leaves the second she gets any sort of fame. Claiming everyone else is a fake diva just comes across wrong if she does do exactly what all of them did.
Do we know that the other divas weren't? And I mean she worked at wrestling for two years before WWE put her in developmental, she didn't train that long for it. When you compare it the guys on the roster who claim to have been massive fans their whole life, and they have been wrestling in the indies longer then she has been wrestling. And they still want to go longer. I think it's idiotic that because she isn't a man she can wrestle a few years and then say I'm done and no one calls her out when she had been saying this is her passion for years. You don't dream of something your whole life, do it for a while then go meh screw it.
I think she is just like every other diva on the roster though. I mean its clear she is very attractive, and her so called tomboy look even before the WWE it is clear it is nothing like actual tomboys. She just uses a different gimmick to make herself more attractive. And I wouldn''t say any of the divas are over including AJ. I also found it ironic her calling out the bellas for getting special attention for who they were dating considering AJ was with Punk and even before that in her brief stint in the indies dated her trainer and tag team partner until she signed with WWE. I mean if their main goal is an actress and they stay 5 years and AJ main goal was something and stays 5 years there is zero difference. Hell I would say i respect the divas more who flat out say their intentions. Like Brock vs Rock, Brock makes it clear he is using WWE while Rock tries to act like he gives a shit.
I never said she couldn't or shouldn't. I simply said her doing so would make her a hypocrite and just as bad if not worse then every other diva she and others called fake.
I mean think if this situation was a man:
Claims to be a huge wrestling fan his whole life, works for a very short time before making it the main roster like 4 years or so total. Incorporates the fact he was a huge fan into his gimmick constantly using that to get over, and calling other wrestlers out for just using the WWE and not being real wrestlers. Spends about a year being built up before being thrust into some big story lines for a year and a half or so. Gets one final big push and gets the world title, holds it for a record length. Drops it, gets it back a few times, spends about a year after the record reign almost always in the title picture. Then quits. Not to do something else, just because. That's what occurred here.
Think if with all the push Reigns is getting he gets the title this year, and by 2016 quits. People would be freaking out.
