Love it or hate it (and Ronda Rousey’s promo on Nikki Bella from the Oct. 15 Raw had the Cageside offices debating those positions this afternoon), last night’s build toward Evolution’s likely main event got people talking.
In fact, Nikki and Ronda are still talking about it. Bella fired back first with an Instagram post crafted for “the Bella Army,” and anyone else who sees her primarily as the protagonist of her own brand and not the villain she’s currently playing on Monday nights:
In addition to the alignment switching, the standout quote from this is the line about “a certain perception WWE and other talent have made of my sister and I”. That sounds like either Nikki is upset about the latest scripted insinuation she slept her way to the top, or is playing to fans who are.
If that’s not enough “Work, Shoot or Worked Shoot” for you, here’s Rousey’s response. She mostly sticks to the storyline (I think? Lines are getting blurred all over the place in this one. I’m not as confused as People, but I’m getting there), but then brags about carrying the Bellas through their “painfully obvious ring rust”:
If only there was a Hulk Hogan tweet that would be useful in this situation...