And She Says Yes

It looks like there is going to be a wedding after all. Without any titles to gain from having AJ, Daniel Bryan has gotten back together with his former kayfabe girlfriend. He proposed to her. And she accepted. That makes for another elaborate segment for the 1000th episode with great potential to draw.

I mentioned Daniel Bryan in passing yesterday. Chris Jericho was turning face. There were signs that the WWE might be doing the same with Daniel Bryan. That would make for possibly too many top faces. I'm glad I held off on jumping to that conclusion. It seems Daniel Bryan is in fact back in tweener territory for this storyline. He played a face on Raw, but things will be a little different on Smackdown this week. So what is he trying to accomplish? Getting AJ back on his side to have someone to help him win matches and distract his adversaries down the road? Playing with AJ's mind so he can just dump her at the altar? That would be a strong heel move.

As for AJ, the WWE continues strong development for this woman. She is getting better treatment than any other woman on the roster. Most importantly, there is no woman in this storyline that AJ is being developed to put over. Eve was more of a pawn or supporting character in this story, thus far. There is no centerpiece in the division. AJ is the one they are building into a star. No doubt about it. And there was a certain word that Michael Cole mentioned at least twice on Raw when talking about AJ. Courageous. He was talking about AJ coming back out to finish reffing that title match last Sunday. It was almost like he was reading it right off a script. This is an idea they want to sell for this woman. And she is still getting a major rub from Daniel Bryan. And since I don't care if I repeat myself, as I just said, none of this is being done to develop AJ for the benefit of another woman. She is not a credible jobber here.

About a week or so ago, I came across this "report" from a wrestling site that said the WWE was developing AJ to be a major star along the same path as Ms. Elizabeth and Sable. Quotation marks of doom? Why? First of all, it was already obvious before they said anything that AJ was being developed to be a major star. Stating the obvious to readers who most likely could see it for themselves is news? Second, I completely disagree with the comparison to Ms. Elizabeth and Sable. Ms. Elizabeth was a non-wrestler at a time before the WWE turned their women's division into a diva division. Treating a non-wrestler as a non-wrestler? Shocking! No, not really. And Sable? Sable was the first centerpiece of the diva division. That means she was getting developed right before the diva division was really created. Once it was created, she was the focal point, and in a major wrestling capacity. She was the predecessor of Trish Stratus and Michelle McCool. Unlike Ms. Elizabeth and Sable, AJ was hired with some wrestling experience. Moreover, unlike Sable, Trish, and McCool, she does not have that image you associate with the centerpiece of the diva division. To put it simply, it's one thing to treat a non-wrestler in a non-wrestler role, but for AJ to get treated like that is different. This is just like what happened to Lita. At a time when there was no centerpiece, the WWE developed Lita in the periphery, alongside the men. Now that the division has collapsed again, they are pushing AJ in the same manner they did Lita. That, in my honest opinion, would be the proper comparison to make. This is comparing a woman with wrestling experience not being developed as a star as the centerpiece in the diva division to another woman with wrestling experience not being developed as a star as the centerpiece in the diva division.