Layla Goes Heel

Nothing happened at Summerslam to really grab my attention too much. Yeah, you had the big heel turns, but that was pretty much anticipated. Instead of anything having to do with last night, let me just briefly go over a topic a few weeks late. Layla is a heel again.

Layla turned on Kaitlyn and aligned with AJ Lee a while ago to turn heel. Should you make too much of that? I wouldn't. There was some speculation among fans that they might form a legitimate partnership between these two heel divas, much like Michelle McCool and Layla. I don't see that happening. It looks like they really only turned Layla heel to move her from being a face eye-candy credible jobber to being a heel eye-candy credible jobber. It's better than not being featured on the main shows at all, like some divas are.

Let me switch gears to something that has to do with the diva division in general. I talk about centerpieces and periphery divas. The centerpiece is that woman around whom the WWE wants to develop the division. The periphery divas are the stars developed and featured on the periphery of that centerpiece. I talk about jobber pushes and filler pushes. A jobber push might manifest itself in a credible jobber putting over a centerpiece in a title feud. A filler push may be a credible jobber playing interim centerpiece while the true centerpiece is injured. What would I say about divas involved in Total Divas? That does not really define what position they hold in the actual diva division or what type of push they might be getting while doing that. But what term would I give to that? Another term? Do I really need to come up with another term for something? This one won't be tough and I probably won't talk about this too much again. These women are getting extracurricular activities. If you have ever applied to college or will apply one day, you know that a lot of them look at your extracurricular activities to see what you are doing outside of the regular schoolwork. And that's what things like Total Divas are. It also includes Playboy, Tough Enough, charity events, appearances in other TV shows, and so on. A lot of divas have gotten these in the history of the diva division. Ivory was a part of Tough Enough. Mickie James did a lot of extracurricular activities for the WWE. It doesn't change the fact that these two women were still pushed as credible jobbers. These extracurricular activities do not determine automatically what is going on in the actual diva division. How the WWE actually chooses to push these women on the shows determines what the actual diva division is about. Yes, extracurricular activities do often lead to angles or at least segments on the shows at times, but it is still up to the WWE to make the decision to incorporate things like that. You can say that these extracurricular activities are on the periphery of true diva division matters. If that confuses you, just forget it. I only bring this up to point out that you should focus more on how the WWE pushes these women in the division to see what kind of career they are getting, not get lost in these extracurricular activities.