Nearly Five Months Later and Brie Bella is Still Playing the Victim, and more!

Botch Mode is back in the headlines for again proving that she doesn’t get it.  For a refresher, Brie Bella drove two unprotected shots to Liv Morgan‘s face, knocking her out, and then dragged her unconscious and rag-dolled body around by her neck.  She was rushed back into competition to be at the WWE Evolution event, despite still being rusty and was clearly not up to snuff.

She did not get taken out to a special ‘women’s only’ shed to get verbally lashed.  She stood in line behind guys like Seth Rollins, Enzo Amore and others who have drawn the ire for messing up in the ring, or for not being good.  But Brie wants to pretend that she’s only ever been the victim of this type of fan reaction before, telling The Digital Spy;

It’s crazy how I’ve been wrestling for 12 years and one of my major mistakes in the ring I get judged so harshly on.  We’re not perfect, no one’s perfect, you know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason I was like showcased in such a way of like, this evil person, and ‘look what she’s done’ and I got bullied really bad.

I wanted to run into a cave and you’ll see. I don’t think people have ever seen me break down as bad as they will during the whole Liv situation. I went into deep depression. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to go back to work. All the horrible things people were saying about me, I felt a thousand times worse than the things they thought of me and I really had to sit down and think to myself, ‘Brie, you’re a mother’ and if Birdie was in this situation would you want her to feel this bad or would you want her to stand up to it and be like, ‘screw you guys’?

I made a mistake and she’s not badly injured and you know what, this is our business, this is what we all signed up for. Everyone’s going to see backstage even how Liv and I were with each other. Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much, bad guy, good guy, don’t talk to your competitors, but backstage you’ll see that we’re all really close and it affects us. We never want to go out there and hurt each other, so when it happens it’s emotional. But people are going to hear my side of the story and my voice and how it’s about damn time that trolls stopped going on the internet and bullying everyone.

It was super nice of her to plug Total Bellas, because it’s always good to hide your “real reaction” on a show that has script writers on it.  Yeah, we’ll totally buy your real take with directors standing behind the camera’s, yelling “Cut!” after you finish your lines.

I totally buy that.  And using Total Bellas as a platform to end bullying?  Produced by the E! Network and the WWE?  HAHAHAHAHA, that’s like saying The Westboro Baptist Church is going to come together to end homophobia in America.  Good try, kid.

The reason for this reaction from the Brie Bella has little to do with being a ‘victim of bullying’, because why would someone who gave credit to the rise of women’s wrestling via a reality show be that thin skinned when she knew she screwed up?

It’s because 2018 saw their collective Bella brand take a hit image wise.  From declining ratings on their own reality show, to Nikki’s ugly relationship to John Cena finally ending and totally being staged (hello Cena’s WrestleMania marriage proposal) and everything they do simply looking like one strategic image move after strategic image move.  When your brand is “We’re the Best” and you then go out to declining ratings, boo’s you weren’t supposed to get and botches that could of killed someone; it’s time to be on the defensive.

Brie, like others in the wrestling world, should learn that if you don’t want stupid people saying stupid things to you; then stop saying/doing stupid things.  People who are braggadocios, like the Bellas are, will never be seen as the victims; they want the spotlight no matter what.  Their behavior since returning to the WWE has proven that.  They want the attention, and they’ve shown that if they can’t be famous, they’ll accept being infamous.

In Other News….

ROH has announced that Flip Gordon will be back in time for the G1 Supercard show at Madison Square Garden on April 6th after suffering an MCL tear. And in other related news, the world is still round.

ROH has also seemingly made a deal with Stardom to use some talent in 2019, as former World Stardom Champoin Mayu Iwatani will be appearing on the February 9th and 10th shows in Lakeland and Miami, Florida respectfully.

 

In WWE news, Fightful reports that Sam Shaw, Karen Q, Rachel Ellering, ACH, Scott Parker, Shane Matthews (the previous two work as a tag team called 3.0), and Elliot Sexton have all been signed to developmental deals, alongside Trevor Lee, and Jonah Rock.  They also signed Monster Factory alum Nick Comoroto to a deal as well.

The signing of Shaw actually hurts the NWA some, as he was designing a lot of their images, and was an active part of the promotion.

Finally, in WWE news, Sports Business Journal is claiming ESPN is talking to ABC/ESPN and Fox/FS1 to host XFL games.

In some quick hits; MLW has announced GoDaddy as a sponsor and will begin presenting their product starting next Saturday at 8 p.m. EST.  Speaking of MLW, they’ve landed in Israel on the Ego TV station and will premiere tonight. Sean Waltman declined to renew his WWE Legends deal, and hinted at possibly signing and wrestling this year on a ‘large’ platform.  No word yet where that is going to be, but early guesses have him in AEW with good friend Billy Gunn.  And lastly, IMPACT Wrestling has renewed their Mexican TV Deal with MVStv.