With WWE Smackdown heading to the SyFy Channel on October 1st, SyFy has started promoting the show’s arrival on their website. The site has the following blurb posted…

This fall, the super heroes of wrestling have a new home. Friday Night SmackDown will premiere on its new home October 1st at 8:00 PM ET. The program, which debuted more than 10 years ago, is one of the longest-running weekly episodic shows on television.

Featuring a star-studded cast of WWE Superstars and Divas, Friday Night SmackDown will deliver a shot of adrenaline to Syfy’s lineup and bring fans over-the-top action, feats of athleticism beyond the reach of mortal men, and WWE’s special brand of drama. Larger-than-life personalities like Undertaker, Edge, Rey Mysterio, Michelle McCool and Beth Phoenix, among others, are set to deliver their explosive power to Syfy’s Friday night lineup and remind viewers that it takes more than muscle to Imagine Greater.

source: ewrestlingnews

New photos of Beth’s new action figure have surfaced. She looks like a barbie doll in these but its still as pretty.

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What in the world is going on with the Divas? They are a hitting a new low, week in and week out, and all we can do is hope that Beth Phoenix or Melina come back to action sooner rather than later. While this decline has been going on for years (and especially within the last few months since Mickie James was released by the company), the large problems seem to hit constant lows.

There are no real feuds going on at the moment. Of course, we have a Diva winning a title and then losing it to another Diva. Then, the two have a few matches and the action goes back and forth for a month or two. Following that routine, we have a new batch of Divas doing the same thing over and over.

At the very least, and I still object to this, but at the end of the Mickie James era, we had “Piggie James.” This was a low in the Divas Division, but at LEAST it was a feud. Can anyone think of a feud worth remembering since then?

Maryse and Alicia Fox have been going at it for the Divas Championship. Oh wait, wasn’t it Eve Torres who was the Divas champ? We can’t forget about her, so WWE just throws her into matches from time to time.

It is clear the WWE isn’t sure who to root for, making the fans clueless as well. Divas are just thrown together in matches without any thought put into them. It’s as if they are told, “Here, just go out there and look pretty.”

Not only do we have two different titles for women, we have a co-Womens champions. We have a mini stable called LayCool that WWE likes to keep around, and since there are no tag teams in the Divas Division, they decided to put belts on both women.

This only weakens the Women’s Championship. What if WWE decided to have WWE co-Championship? This would just confuse everybody.

Now that Michelle McCool is married to the Undertaker, I expect her to be a champion for quite some time.

If you marry someone high in the business you will be in the spotlight. Just look at Triple H as an example. I just hope WWE uses McCool wisely and doesn’t just throw her in random matches that have no meaning.

Come on, WWE, give me something worth watching.

My guess is that LayCool will stick around much longer than we care to see. With top stars injured or having been recently released, there seems to be little hope for the future of the Women’s Division.

WWE is trying to make new Diva stars, but with the lack of real feuds or any clear direction, this seems to be a lost cause.

source: bleacherreport

If you look at the Divas in the WWE, and how can you not, they seem to fit a certain look: beautiful, thin, and athletic. The only two who don’t fit the same “diva” body type are Beth Phoenix, from my hometown of Buffalo NY, and recently released Mickie James.

While Beth was called “The Glamazon” due to her larger and more muscular stature, Mickie James was featured in a storyline where two other women mocked her weight. The purpose of that storyline was to really bring the heat to the the female heel team of Lay-Cool, because in fact Mickie wasn’t overweight. She looked great, she just didn’t fit the Barbie Doll mold of the other Divas.

Now TNA has lost several of their Knockouts and you have to wonder if WWE will bring in women who don’t fit the current look of the Diva roster.

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– Beth Phoenix, who is currently out with a torn ACL, said on Twitter that she was backstage at last night’s SmackDown taping in Tampa, Florida. She wrote: “In attendance at Smackdown taping in Tampa for a great opportunity that I’m so thrilled about! Its an emotional visit.So hard to not work”

source: ewrestlingnews