{"id":48248,"date":"2021-11-10T01:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48248"},"modified":"2021-11-11T01:37:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:37:57","slug":"wwes-womens-short-strap-blets-bother-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48248","title":{"rendered":"WWE\u2019s Women&#8217;s short-strap blets bother me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48249 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/shortstraps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/shortstraps.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/shortstraps-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m fairly sure it might have started with Sasha Banks after she won the Smackdown women\u2019s title from Bayley a while back, but I didn\u2019t notice it until she lost the blet to Bianca Belair at Wrestlemania last year: the strap was noticeably shorter.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It bothered me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This was no more prevalent than during a \u201csurprise\u201d segment during the NXT show after Wrestlemania, when all three brands\u2019 women\u2019s champions all gathered in the ring to signify the whole NXT and NXT alum success thing, with <a href=\"https:\/\/theovertimer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/07ttvin3k1t61.jpg\"><span class=\"s1\">all of them holding their blets<\/span><\/a>, with Belair\u2019s stumpy looking blue blet next to the red blet and the NXT women\u2019s blet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Obviously, it doesn\u2019t take a genius to understand that the logic behind shortening the strap was likely due to the fact that Sasha Banks is pretty petite in stature, and a short strap allowed her to wear the blue blet without there being like a foot of excess hanging off of her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I just figured the WWE would transition back to a longer strap on a need-be basis, but from what I can tell there doesn\u2019t appear to be any long-strap versions of the blue blet anymore, or nobody with a waist larger than 20\u201d appears to have held it to warrant going back to one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To make matters worse, the red blet has been shortened now too, so now RAW is subject to having a stumpy looking women\u2019s blet as well.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, Becky Lynch has bounced back from pregnancy like a house of fire, and is probably slimmer than when she rose to the stars, but thanks to such a body transformation, now the red blet is all stumpy too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I dunno, it just bugs me to see these blets looking all stumpy and shortened.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There\u2019s something prestigious and traditional looking about a normal-length strap with all its rivets and snaps, and seeing it all shortened just makes them look lower-class and less prevalent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Alexa Bliss would undoubtedly not be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/82\/42\/5c\/82425c7782fb0f38a27a7133b333c4ac.gif\"><span class=\"s1\">do her trademark pose<\/span><\/a> with these new stumpy blets, which is kind of ironic considering she\u2019s probably the most petite superstar there\u2019s ever been, to hold a championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">All I know is that if the WWEShop ever changes their women\u2019s replicas to short straps, there\u2019s a 0% chance that I\u2019d buy them for my girls.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They look silly, and they would undoubtedly fuck up the aesthetic that I\u2019d try to go with their own hanging blets.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These women need to stop being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wwe-divas.jpg\"><span class=\"s1\">divas<\/span><\/a>, and get back to traditional, classic, <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EaGUJVvUcAE9Rxj.jpg:large\"><span class=\"s1\">normal-length straps<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fairly sure it might have started with Sasha Banks after she won the Smackdown women\u2019s title from Bayley a while back, but I didn\u2019t notice it until she lost the blet to Bianca Belair at Wrestlemania last year: the strap was noticeably shorter.\u00a0 It bothered me. This was no more prevalent than during a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWE\u2019s Women&#8217;s short-strap blets bother me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,100,45,83,54,49,55],"class_list":["post-48248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48250,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48248\/revisions\/48250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}