I'm a big fan of wrestling but there are many things that have been, putting it nicely, disappointing. So in this column I will write what, in my opinion, are some of the things that I find wrong with the WWE today.

THE DIVAS

I am a big fan of female wrestling, being a female myself, but I have to say that the way the women's division is going is not good. What happened to all the women wrestlers who worked hard to get where they are today" Eg. Lita, who not only worked hard to learn how to wrestle before coming into the WWE but also improving while working for the company. Trish Stratus, who may have got her contract because of her looks, has worked really hard to improve her wrestling skills and become a great female wrestler. And the many other female wrestlers e.g Molly, Victoria and Jazz. Now the WWE are having DIVA searches to find more eye candy when they have perfectly good women wrestlers who are also very good-looking sitting in the back not being used. Also with the DIVA search, it is not only the winner who gets a contract but half of the contestants also do. My 2 cents is that women should get in the WWE for their wrestling skills and for the WWE to push their women wrestlers that they have, instead of continuously adding more eye candy.

CHARACTER

Is it just me or is that a serious lack of character in the WWE" Many of the superstars in the WWE are lacking that little "IT". For my first example I would like to use Shelton Benjamin. Don't get me wrong, he is a great wrestler, but he just lacks the character that it takes to make him big. For me, watching him can get a little boring for he is not interesting enough. With the right character/gimmick he could be a main-eventer some day. Next example would be Batista. Now he is very strong and athletic and he does have a gimmick of "The Animal" but to me he does not have the right essentials to carry RAW. After a while he will just get boring. There are many other wrestlers who also lack that little bit extra, though with the right creativity any of them could get over big, just look at what Billy Gunn did.

TV

Watching an old wrestling tape from 2000: each RAW was packed full of entertaining story-lines, around 7-8 matches and could keep a fan interested. Recalling back I remember in one episode I watched: a feud between HHH and Kurt Angle on the boiling point, Jericho have a match and X-Pac interfere, then X-Pac have a match and Jericho interfere,e then a fight between them occurring back stage, a tag team match, a women's title match and heaps more. The shows used to be action-packed with heaps of wrestler feuding and doing entertaining tapings backstage. Now, I am lucky to maybe watch about 3 short matches, a really long main event match, half an hour of someone running their mouth in the ring, and the left over time backstage tapings. The WWE is really falling apart.

To conclude this article, I would like to say that one reason, maybe for it's downfall, is having no one to compete with, but it has truly been a huge let down to see how far the WWE has fallen. All I can say is thank God for the old wresting tapes in video stores.

by Chari Harper ..