The Status Quo Of The Diva Division: Beating The Status Quo

When you find yourself within a status quo that is not in your favor, there are a few things you can do about it. You can complain or protest what is going on. Zack Ryder is getting attention for complaining on Twitter these days about how the WWE is using him. You can try to change the status quo or bring an end to it. A lot of wars have been fought by people who had enough of the way things were and wanted change. In between complaining and ending the status quo, I would place beating the status quo. The status quo is against you, but you overcome it to still succeed. That is not necessarily the same thing as ending the status quo. You can beat an undefeated boxer, but that does not necessarily mean he stops boxing right after that one loss.

Mickie James did beat the status quo of the WWE diva division. If you look at the type of career she was getting throughout her time in the WWE, she was getting the same type of pushes as those female wrestlers who would be used to put over the centerpiece and be used as filler when the centerpiece was not around. No woman pushed this way ever became very over. And the WWE is all about getting over the performers they want to be their top stars and featuring them to be stars. They were never doing that with Mickie James. That did not stop her from becoming more over than the eye-candy divas the WWE was trying to develop as the new centerpiece. If you view the status quo as a pattern, Mickie James broke that pattern of female wrestlers being pushed as credible jobbers not becoming too over. If you view the status quo as an agenda, Mickie James beat the WWE's agenda by becoming more over than the individuals they wanted to be their top stars in the diva division. The WWE doesn't push a woman like Michelle McCool as hard as they did just to watch the kind of woman they use to put her over become more over than her.

How has the status quo reacted to tasting defeat? I will get more into that tomorrow, but let me just say for now that the diva division has obviously not been able to go back to what it was before Mickie James debuting. The WWE has tried to maintain the same status quo, but it just does not bring the same results.

Some readers, especially those who do not like Mickie James, might say that I am just a blind Mickie James fan handing her praise. She beat the status quo? Really? Not a bit much? Look at it objectively. If you have a situation where everyone is not getting equal opportunities and some people are being used to make others look good, what would it mean for one of those individuals not getting a fair opportunity and being used like that to get the job done better than those individuals that are getting the better opportunities and being developed to succeed? If you do not want to call that beating the status quo, what would you call it? Whatever your answer is, Mickie James did that.

There are a lot of people out there who say that the WWE did not appreciate Mickie James and did not utilize her properly. The problem is deeper than that, but no one seems to show any proper appreciation for what Mickie James accomplished in the diva division and utilizes that. This isn't about handing praise to Mickie James. It is obvious that the status quo of the diva division no longer works. You need change. What better way to argue for change than bring up the woman that beat the status quo? If Mickie James can accomplish what she did with the career of a credible jobber, why shouldn't the WWE be giving female wrestlers fairer, better opportunities? Utilize what Mickie James accomplished to argue for change. Of course, how can you utilize that when no one knows about it and even appreciates it, right?