What’s up Diva fans and welcome to this week’s WWE Superstars Redux. Paige has ticked off four of the potential five main roster shows you can wrestle on (I would never be so harsh to forget the soon-to-be returning Saturday Morning Slam) as she competes on WWE Superstars for the first time. Her opponent? Of course, it’s Alicia Fox! Who else would it be? It’s not like there are any other heel Divas or anything… I could complain yet the other two matches they’ve had have been stellar so I’m honestly just excited for Round 3. Can Foxy avoid her third loss of the week? Let’s find out.
TO THE VIDEO!
It’s time for the Divas to main event Superstars. This is what dreams are made of. Joking aside, the quality of Superstars has definitely gotten better what with it now being a WWE Network show as opposed to an international territories show that is on at like 1am in the UK. The WWE Tag Team Champions opened the show, so having the Divas close it (other than a Raw recap) is actually pretty cool.
Paige is first to enter the arena and I’m still loving the theme song. It’s a good shower listen. “RUB THE SHAMPOO IN YOUR HAIR!” Sing that in the style of “Tear the stars out of the sky” and it works. Just call me the next Timbaland. Alicia is out next to her not-so-good shower music. It’s more like 70s roller disco or something. I love you Alicia yet you need to tell WWE where to go when it comes to that music and your lack of push towards the title. Sort those two things out please Vinny Mac!
The bell sounds and Paige and Alicia bring the aggression with a standard grapple. Paige breaks out and thrust kicks Alicia in the gut. Sidenote: I’d be gutted if I didn’t get my kick to make that amazing sound everytime ha! This kick was one of those times. Paige is clearly not fussed when it comes to sound effects, as she throws Alicia across the ring by her hair twice. Well I say she threw Alicia. Alicia practically threw herself the first time! Paige stomps a mudhole in Alicia and then keeps the beatdown going with a headbutt. There’s something about a woman who can land a sweet headbutt and look good doing it!
After a very slight miscommunication, Paige knees Alicia in the face through the ropes and I’m a little annoyed Paige gets a five-count when Sheamus doesn’t for his chest clubs through the ropes. She didn’t get five counted on NXT! Blatant sexism! Alicia sells the knee strikes flawlessly and she then flawlessly uses her veteran tactics. After kicking out a pin at two, Alicia rolls to the outside, suckering in Paige in the process, allowing her to near enough maim Paige with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.
After some smack talk and some blunt kicks, Alicia covers Paige to get a near fall. Alicia decides to try and make Paige tap and COWABUNGA, she uses a surfboard and not a generic chinlock or headlock.
Praise be to Yevon! (A gold star for whoever gets that geeky reference!)
Lic’ continues to perfectly channel Queen Bey herself (ride it with my surfboard) as Paige gasps in pain (graining on that wood, graining, graining on that wood) until Alicia pushes Paige right on her face. Somehow I don’t think Beyoncé was talking about a wrestling move when writing ‘Drunk in Love’. Let’s drop that subject and move on shall we!
Alicia continues to try and make Paige tap until she decides to drop her back first with a lovely scoop slam. Foxy shows us her guns (those swans are sick!) before going for another scoop slam. Unluckily for Alicia though, her taunting costs her and Paige gets a one count with a schoolgirl, a move that allows her to mount a comeback.
The fightback starts with a bazooka-like dropkick, complete with epic sound effect. Paige then goes for the headscissor takedown that she did to Tamina at Extreme Rules, and although the move is botched, it still looked decent and the announcers covered it well. The WWE Divas Champion then pummels A. Fox with three connected clotheslines before letting out one of those vintage hellcat screams! Paige then runs into a hard elbow strike from Alicia yet the champ quickly retaliates by pulling Alicia off the top rope. A Scorpion Cross Lock later and it’s Paige 3, Alicia 0.
Thoughts: These two can do no wrong in the ring together. Well other than that botched headscissor move that they still managed to salvage! Paige and Alicia have excellent chemistry and both sold each others moves well, whilst executing all of their own really well. Alicia is the MVP of the match for me, as she brought a new submission to the table. That and the fact she always goes the extra mile with her selling without making it look unrealistic.
Although this is the third match between the two now, this match still felt different from all the others, which I really enjoyed. One thing I will point out is that Paige’s comebacks are normally pretty short, just like this one, so hopefully she can establish more of a comeback-type moveset instead of just the three connecting clotheslines, a dropkick and her choice of finisher. Other than that, I can’t fault this match. The girls did themselves proud and did the division justice. WWE should take note of this and not pull another daft decision like leaving them off of Monday Night Raw.
And with that, stay tuned, Jack will be back!
