Bronco

Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

One of the most surprising names released, given the amount of television time devoted to her, was Ariel, real name Shelly Martinez. The release appears to be related to a backstage incident involving Martinez and Batista at last Tuesday's SmackDown tapings in Baltimore, Maryland.

The two of them got into an argument in front of a number of talents while watching the taping on a monitor backstage. Whatever the argument was about hasn't come out yet, but the feeling among those spoken to was that Martinez was defending herself against Batista. Seeing how she was on the wrong side of things politically, she ended up in the crosshairs of the company. When push came to shove, she became an enemy of Batista, who happens to be a friend of Triple H, husband of the woman who can now fire you.

Stephanie McMahon, who is now in charge of who gets fired and who gets hired, was never a fan of her. She also felt as though that she didn't have the "WWE Diva look." It also didn't help matters that she was a talent hand-picked by Paul Heyman for ECW when it was originally launched, and as we all know, Stephanie absolutely loathes Heyman. All those factors worked against her and she was shown the door.

With the departure of Ariel, Kevin Thorn has been told that he may be receiving a makeover/new look, which leads some to believe that the darker/vampire elements of his character will go away. There were a few people who felt that since ECW writer Dave Lagana isn't one to rock the boat, he's going to go with whatever WWE management wants, instead of trying to fight for the characters and making it work.

aaron

WOW, sound slike batista is a real bitch at heart! assuming this is all true of course. Maybe he has that "WWE diva look" or attitude

Tyler Durden

WC Hall Of Famer

In this sort of situation the group should always can the one that has the least talent in the wrestling ring.

Which is why I'm still surprised Ariel was fired.

Maybe they're very anti girls with huge nipples.

Which still doesn't explain why Batista wasn't the one fired, I mean jeez, he has a huge pair on him,

The Problem Solver

WWE has some serious "talent" issues at the moment - can we expect some debuts soon!?

Tyler Durden

WC Hall Of Famer

Harry Smith, TJ Wilson and Nattie (Nettie?) Neidhart are expected in soon aren't they? For the Calgary Raw?

Shelly Martinez should join TnA. She could play Abyss' gothic Ma.

Balla

lol hmm shelly martinez in tna huh? that would make a good storyline, maube abyss did some searchign and she is a lost child of mitchells, or ex wife or something

The Half Boy

Of course she's not the "WWE Diva" look. If she was, I'm sure she'd discover she was somebody I wouldn't fuck with someone else's knob. I'm so tired of the vapid blonde girl. GIVE ME REDHEADS!

Tomorrow's Just An Excuse Away,
So I Pull My Collar Up And Face The Cold, On My Own.
The Earth Laughs Beneath My Heavy Feet,
At The Blasphemy In My Old Jangly Walk.

Griff0rd

If no one else will say it I will... Steph got jealous cause when she hung upside down like that she didn't fall out of her dress... where as Stephanie did pre-pedigree... thus the jealousness burned inside and she laid in wait until she could do something about it... so when she got firing powers she arranged for an issue to come up with Batista... because we all know that he is the HHH/Steph lapdog... and therefore got her fired.

So in case you didn't know... NOW you know.

CrasH - X

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