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The road to Wrestlemania is officially underway. As has been the talk of the IWC in the last few days, the projected main event participants have started early with a war of words on twitter. Some people are working themselves into a shoot believing that the two are "going off script" with their shots at each other. Personally, I think if that were the case, the WWE would have stepped in and put a stop to it right away. Make no mistake, the McMahons love publicity and this is just that. Let's get started.
This all started after Becky was arrested for continuing to show up to WWE shows after being suspended for 60 days by Vince McMahon. On Raw this past Monday Ronda made it clear to Stephanie McMahon that she wanted Becky reinstated so she could have the match with her at Wrestlemania. When that didn't happen, she threatened to relinquish the WWE Raw Women's Championship. When Stephanie didn't relent, she put the belt down on the mat and walked out. The next day Becky started it all off by this post on twitter.
Becky basically just wants Ronda to go back for the belt because she wants to beat her for it at Mania, not have it handed to her.
Ronda then accuses Becky of faking the mug shots. She also uses the insult "ginger crutch ninja" which I have no words for. Also, not that it matters much, they're technically jail photos, not prison photos. But I'm just nitpicking here.
Here Becky tells Ronda to keep the F word (fake) out of her mouth and try to get better at the wrestling business and stop acting like she's above it.
Ronda then addresses the "fake" comment by insulting Becky's version of the armbar saying that it looks like she's holding the "dick you wish you had". In my opinion, calling Becky's armbar fake isn't really all that helpful towards building the potential Wrestlemania match. It also looks bad on her since she has sold that armbar from her in the past, so it's basically exposing the wrestling business as fake. I don't have a huge problem with it personally. It is a little Russoish but hey, it's on twitter not on WWE TV so who really cares.
For people that may not know, in this tweet Becky took the pictures that Ronda used in the last tweet and photo shopped Ronda's husband Travis Browne's head onto it, basically calling him a dick.
Here is where people started to think that this was more of a shoot than a work. It's possible that the WWE is giving them the freedom to come up with their own material here, but I still think that if it were going too far they would step in and put a stop to it. Maybe this caught Ronda off guard and legitimately pissed her off, but I feel like she used that as a way to advance the storyline and making people invested by making people believe that they are going off script.
Becky then says that Ronda went full Russo there. For the younger fans out there who might not be familiar with Vince Russo, he was the head writer during the beginning of the Attitude Era WWF and later the near dying days of WCW. Basically, in his writing he sometimes had the idea to make stories seem more "real" by making people think that they were going off script. I won't go too far into it but I'd greatly suggest looking up more on Vince Russo and even checking out the book "The Death of WCW" by RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez. It's a good read. Anyway, back on topic.
Now Ronda is physically threatening to beat up Becky Lynch like for real for real. We're no longer on script now kids, this is for real now. In case that's not clear, that was heavy sarcasm.
They then finish up with both posting videos making fun of each other. Becky posted Ronda struggling with a promo and Ronda posted making fun of Becky's Irish Dancer gimmick that she had in her early days on NXT.
In conclusion, they both seems to be doing a great job of keeping this feud going both on TV and on twitter. I can understand why some people might be confused and think that Ronda got legitimately upset and started going off script, but I feel like this is just the WWE giving them freedom to build the story. Over the past several years more and more the WWE have been open to advancing storylines on social media. I think it is smart. They shouldn't have Becky invading Raw every week between now and Wrestlemania as it would get repetitive and possibly exhaust the audience. This is a great way for them to interact to avoid that. I wish it was building to a singles match between, but it seems more likely that it will be a three way with Charlotte as well. Either way, it should be an interesting journey between now and Wrestleman.
That is my opinion and analysis of this Twitter war that has been going on between Ronda and Becky. If you would like to discuss this, feel free to leave a comment or tweet me @DevManeuver. Thanks for reading.
