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	<title>Comments on: Too many look-alike Asians?  The curious case of Gail Kim and Lena Yada</title>
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		<title>By: kevinmiller</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/11/15/too-many-look-alike-asians-the-curious-case-of-gail-kim-and-lena-yada/comment-page-1/#comment-128933</link>
		<dc:creator>kevinmiller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think McMahon and his writers are Very Racist towards Asians.Look at how quickly he got&lt;br&gt;rid of the Suzukis.Look at how much of losing buffoons they turned Jimmy Wang Yang and&lt;br&gt;Funaki into(Is Funaki still in the company?).How about the speed in which they got rid of&lt;br&gt;Lena Yada,never giving her a True chance to succeed? He also got rid of Tajiri.And the most&lt;br&gt;heinous crime of all,they are wasting Gail Kim&#039;s Incredible talents(which she posseses more&lt;br&gt;than 3/4 of the Divas there)by jobbing her when they should be giving her Good storylines &lt;br&gt;and allowing her to be Champion as she should be! He and the writers refuse to sell her to&lt;br&gt;the audience the way she should be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think McMahon and his writers are Very Racist towards Asians.Look at how quickly he got<br />rid of the Suzukis.Look at how much of losing buffoons they turned Jimmy Wang Yang and<br />Funaki into(Is Funaki still in the company?).How about the speed in which they got rid of<br />Lena Yada,never giving her a True chance to succeed? He also got rid of Tajiri.And the most<br />heinous crime of all,they are wasting Gail Kim&#39;s Incredible talents(which she posseses more<br />than 3/4 of the Divas there)by jobbing her when they should be giving her Good storylines <br />and allowing her to be Champion as she should be! He and the writers refuse to sell her to<br />the audience the way she should be.</p>
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		<title>By: bilutza</title>
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		<dc:creator>bilutza</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gail Kim finally made a return to the Women&#039;s Division in 2004 with a new submission style. During this time she picked up many wins, and was even crowned number 1 contender due to these wins. &lt;a rel=&quot;follow&quot;href=&quot;http://www.sanatatesexuala.ro/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;marire sani&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gail Kim finally made a return to the Women&#39;s Division in 2004 with a new submission style. During this time she picked up many wins, and was even crowned number 1 contender due to these wins. <a rel="follow"href="http://www.sanatatesexuala.ro/" rel="nofollow">marire sani</a></p>
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		<title>By: R. Hopkins</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/11/15/too-many-look-alike-asians-the-curious-case-of-gail-kim-and-lena-yada/comment-page-1/#comment-104331</link>
		<dc:creator>R. Hopkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s just ridiculous.  She was hired to wrestle and to learn how to wrestle and she couldn&#039;t .  And if her firing was because she was Asian, then why did they hire her in the first place?  Furthermore, why did they center segments around her and try to get her over?

Trish got pushed because she was able to connect with the audience and turned a women&#039;s match in the WWE into something more than a pee break.

Alundra Blaze fought Rhonda Sing(h), who wasn&#039;t a big monster Asian, but a big monster white woman from Canada.

And perhaps if Shelton Benjamin could actually get over as a midcard wrestler would he be put into the main event.  They put a lot of work into him by letting him beat Triple H 3 times and making him Intercontinental Champion for 10 months, but he just couldn&#039;t get over.

But I digress.  The main point here is Lena Yada didn&#039;t have it.  And when I say &quot;it&quot;, I don&#039;t mean &quot;white skin and blond hair&quot;.  She doesn&#039;t know a wristlock from a wristwatch, can&#039;t cut a promo, can&#039;t conduct an interview.  Hell, she can&#039;t even dance...which is the standard &quot;diva&quot; fallback ability.  Take a look at the other white wrestlers that you despise that are getting time on TV like Kelly Kelly.  At least she knows how to lock up and run the ropes. Other wrestlers and on-air talent have been fired quicker for having more or less.   They should keep her around and collect a paycheck for doing nothing just because she&#039;s Asian?  

Please save the &quot;that&#039;s racist!&quot; talk for when it&#039;s warranted.  WWE has done racially questionable things in the past, but getting rid of a deadbeat diva who just happened to be Asian isn&#039;t one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s just ridiculous.  She was hired to wrestle and to learn how to wrestle and she couldn&#8217;t .  And if her firing was because she was Asian, then why did they hire her in the first place?  Furthermore, why did they center segments around her and try to get her over?</p>
<p>Trish got pushed because she was able to connect with the audience and turned a women&#8217;s match in the WWE into something more than a pee break.</p>
<p>Alundra Blaze fought Rhonda Sing(h), who wasn&#8217;t a big monster Asian, but a big monster white woman from Canada.</p>
<p>And perhaps if Shelton Benjamin could actually get over as a midcard wrestler would he be put into the main event.  They put a lot of work into him by letting him beat Triple H 3 times and making him Intercontinental Champion for 10 months, but he just couldn&#8217;t get over.</p>
<p>But I digress.  The main point here is Lena Yada didn&#8217;t have it.  And when I say &#8220;it&#8221;, I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;white skin and blond hair&#8221;.  She doesn&#8217;t know a wristlock from a wristwatch, can&#8217;t cut a promo, can&#8217;t conduct an interview.  Hell, she can&#8217;t even dance&#8230;which is the standard &#8220;diva&#8221; fallback ability.  Take a look at the other white wrestlers that you despise that are getting time on TV like Kelly Kelly.  At least she knows how to lock up and run the ropes. Other wrestlers and on-air talent have been fired quicker for having more or less.   They should keep her around and collect a paycheck for doing nothing just because she&#8217;s Asian?  </p>
<p>Please save the &#8220;that&#8217;s racist!&#8221; talk for when it&#8217;s warranted.  WWE has done racially questionable things in the past, but getting rid of a deadbeat diva who just happened to be Asian isn&#8217;t one.</p>
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		<title>By: R. Hopkins</title>
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		<dc:creator>R. Hopkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s just ridiculous.  She was hired to wrestle and to learn how to wrestle and she couldn&#039;t .  And if her firing was because she was Asian, then why did they hire her in the first place?  Furthermore, why did they center segments around her and try to get her over?

Trish got pushed because she was able to connect with the audience and turned a women&#039;s match in the WWE into something more than a pee break.

Alundra Blaze fought Rhonda Sing(h), who wasn&#039;t a big monster Asian, but a big monster white woman from Canada.

And perhaps if Shelton Benjamin could actually get over as a midcard wrestler would he be put into the main event.  They put a lot of work into him by letting him beat Triple H 3 times and making him Intercontinental Champion for 10 months, but he just couldn&#039;t get over.

But I digress.  The main point here is Lena Yada didn&#039;t have it.  And when I say &quot;it&quot;, I don&#039;t mean &quot;white skin and blond hair&quot;.  She doesn&#039;t know a wristlock from a wristwatch, can&#039;t cut a promo, can&#039;t conduct an interview.  Hell, she can&#039;t even dance...which is the standard &quot;diva&quot; fallback ability.  Take a look at the other white wrestlers that you despise that are getting time on TV like Kelly Kelly.  At least she knows how to lock up and run the ropes. Other wrestlers and on-air talent have been fired quicker for having more or less.   They should keep her around and collect a paycheck for doing nothing just because she&#039;s Asian?  

Please save the &quot;that&#039;s racist!&quot; talk for when it&#039;s warranted.  WWE has done racially questionable things in the past, but getting rid of a deadbeat diva who just happened to be Asian isn&#039;t one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s just ridiculous.  She was hired to wrestle and to learn how to wrestle and she couldn&#8217;t .  And if her firing was because she was Asian, then why did they hire her in the first place?  Furthermore, why did they center segments around her and try to get her over?</p>
<p>Trish got pushed because she was able to connect with the audience and turned a women&#8217;s match in the WWE into something more than a pee break.</p>
<p>Alundra Blaze fought Rhonda Sing(h), who wasn&#8217;t a big monster Asian, but a big monster white woman from Canada.</p>
<p>And perhaps if Shelton Benjamin could actually get over as a midcard wrestler would he be put into the main event.  They put a lot of work into him by letting him beat Triple H 3 times and making him Intercontinental Champion for 10 months, but he just couldn&#8217;t get over.</p>
<p>But I digress.  The main point here is Lena Yada didn&#8217;t have it.  And when I say &#8220;it&#8221;, I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;white skin and blond hair&#8221;.  She doesn&#8217;t know a wristlock from a wristwatch, can&#8217;t cut a promo, can&#8217;t conduct an interview.  Hell, she can&#8217;t even dance&#8230;which is the standard &#8220;diva&#8221; fallback ability.  Take a look at the other white wrestlers that you despise that are getting time on TV like Kelly Kelly.  At least she knows how to lock up and run the ropes. Other wrestlers and on-air talent have been fired quicker for having more or less.   They should keep her around and collect a paycheck for doing nothing just because she&#8217;s Asian?  </p>
<p>Please save the &#8220;that&#8217;s racist!&#8221; talk for when it&#8217;s warranted.  WWE has done racially questionable things in the past, but getting rid of a deadbeat diva who just happened to be Asian isn&#8217;t one.</p>
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		<title>By: Ben Franklin</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/11/15/too-many-look-alike-asians-the-curious-case-of-gail-kim-and-lena-yada/comment-page-1/#comment-104311</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a bunch of &quot;marks&quot;. Lena&#039;s release was purely racial. We don&#039;t know how good she was for sure, but she certainly had personality. Kelly Kelly is awful, but they are pushing her all the way to the top! She&#039;s beat every heel diva on Raw (and SD&#039;s Victoria on the 11/17 episode of RAW).  

And what do you mean, &quot;Trish and Sable being the only two impact Blonds ever...&quot;? Sable was frackin awful, but yet they mad ethe entire women&#039;s division around her. 

Trish was pushed like no other woman in history! She was on a minimum of 3-4 segments a week the entire time she was on TV!! 

And plus, you forgot Sunny, Torrie Wilson, Medusa (Alundra Blaze), and current Diva&#039;s Champ (and 1st champ) Michelle McCool. All these women have gotten huge pushes in WWE. 

WWE has always felt more comfortable using the &quot;girl next door&quot; as their top star. OF course, the &quot;girl next door&quot; is always, ALWAYS blond! 

The entire Alundra Blaze gimmick was having her be the pretty blond going against giant Asian monster wrestlers! 

The promo and wrestling abilities of Melina, Victoria, and several others throughout the years has never gotten them to become the top star! And without any top &quot;marketable&quot; blond, you have to have noticed the WWE squashing the Women&#039;s Division right now. 

If you think you have an argument, ask yourself this; do you think you will ever see a headline of any PPV being a Black wrestler against an Asian wrestler? Or how about a women&#039;s feud with two Asian women, for example, Gail Kim against Angela Fong? Or even Kim against a famous Japanese wrestler? How about two Black women wrestlers having a headline feud? 

It&#039;s amazing they could so easily headline HHH vs Cena vs Orton, but would they ever push to headline MVP vs Ron Killings vs Shelton vs The Undertaker in a Fatal 4 Way for the Title?

Heck, they did not even headline Eddie Guerrero vs The Rock on a PPV back in the day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a bunch of &#8220;marks&#8221;. Lena&#8217;s release was purely racial. We don&#8217;t know how good she was for sure, but she certainly had personality. Kelly Kelly is awful, but they are pushing her all the way to the top! She&#8217;s beat every heel diva on Raw (and SD&#8217;s Victoria on the 11/17 episode of RAW).  </p>
<p>And what do you mean, &#8220;Trish and Sable being the only two impact Blonds ever&#8230;&#8221;? Sable was frackin awful, but yet they mad ethe entire women&#8217;s division around her. </p>
<p>Trish was pushed like no other woman in history! She was on a minimum of 3-4 segments a week the entire time she was on TV!! </p>
<p>And plus, you forgot Sunny, Torrie Wilson, Medusa (Alundra Blaze), and current Diva&#8217;s Champ (and 1st champ) Michelle McCool. All these women have gotten huge pushes in WWE. </p>
<p>WWE has always felt more comfortable using the &#8220;girl next door&#8221; as their top star. OF course, the &#8220;girl next door&#8221; is always, ALWAYS blond! </p>
<p>The entire Alundra Blaze gimmick was having her be the pretty blond going against giant Asian monster wrestlers! </p>
<p>The promo and wrestling abilities of Melina, Victoria, and several others throughout the years has never gotten them to become the top star! And without any top &#8220;marketable&#8221; blond, you have to have noticed the WWE squashing the Women&#8217;s Division right now. </p>
<p>If you think you have an argument, ask yourself this; do you think you will ever see a headline of any PPV being a Black wrestler against an Asian wrestler? Or how about a women&#8217;s feud with two Asian women, for example, Gail Kim against Angela Fong? Or even Kim against a famous Japanese wrestler? How about two Black women wrestlers having a headline feud? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing they could so easily headline HHH vs Cena vs Orton, but would they ever push to headline MVP vs Ron Killings vs Shelton vs The Undertaker in a Fatal 4 Way for the Title?</p>
<p>Heck, they did not even headline Eddie Guerrero vs The Rock on a PPV back in the day!</p>
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		<title>By: Ben Franklin</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/11/15/too-many-look-alike-asians-the-curious-case-of-gail-kim-and-lena-yada/comment-page-1/#comment-139483</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a bunch of &quot;marks&quot;. Lena&#039;s release was purely racial. We don&#039;t know how good she was for sure, but she certainly had personality. Kelly Kelly is awful, but they are pushing her all the way to the top! She&#039;s beat every heel diva on Raw (and SD&#039;s Victoria on the 11/17 episode of RAW).  

And what do you mean, &quot;Trish and Sable being the only two impact Blonds ever...&quot;? Sable was frackin awful, but yet they mad ethe entire women&#039;s division around her. 

Trish was pushed like no other woman in history! She was on a minimum of 3-4 segments a week the entire time she was on TV!! 

And plus, you forgot Sunny, Torrie Wilson, Medusa (Alundra Blaze), and current Diva&#039;s Champ (and 1st champ) Michelle McCool. All these women have gotten huge pushes in WWE. 

WWE has always felt more comfortable using the &quot;girl next door&quot; as their top star. OF course, the &quot;girl next door&quot; is always, ALWAYS blond! 

The entire Alundra Blaze gimmick was having her be the pretty blond going against giant Asian monster wrestlers! 

The promo and wrestling abilities of Melina, Victoria, and several others throughout the years has never gotten them to become the top star! And without any top &quot;marketable&quot; blond, you have to have noticed the WWE squashing the Women&#039;s Division right now. 

If you think you have an argument, ask yourself this; do you think you will ever see a headline of any PPV being a Black wrestler against an Asian wrestler? Or how about a women&#039;s feud with two Asian women, for example, Gail Kim against Angela Fong? Or even Kim against a famous Japanese wrestler? How about two Black women wrestlers having a headline feud? 

It&#039;s amazing they could so easily headline HHH vs Cena vs Orton, but would they ever push to headline MVP vs Ron Killings vs Shelton vs The Undertaker in a Fatal 4 Way for the Title?

Heck, they did not even headline Eddie Guerrero vs The Rock on a PPV back in the day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a bunch of &#8220;marks&#8221;. Lena&#8217;s release was purely racial. We don&#8217;t know how good she was for sure, but she certainly had personality. Kelly Kelly is awful, but they are pushing her all the way to the top! She&#8217;s beat every heel diva on Raw (and SD&#8217;s Victoria on the 11/17 episode of RAW).  </p>
<p>And what do you mean, &#8220;Trish and Sable being the only two impact Blonds ever&#8230;&#8221;? Sable was frackin awful, but yet they mad ethe entire women&#8217;s division around her. </p>
<p>Trish was pushed like no other woman in history! She was on a minimum of 3-4 segments a week the entire time she was on TV!! </p>
<p>And plus, you forgot Sunny, Torrie Wilson, Medusa (Alundra Blaze), and current Diva&#8217;s Champ (and 1st champ) Michelle McCool. All these women have gotten huge pushes in WWE. </p>
<p>WWE has always felt more comfortable using the &#8220;girl next door&#8221; as their top star. OF course, the &#8220;girl next door&#8221; is always, ALWAYS blond! </p>
<p>The entire Alundra Blaze gimmick was having her be the pretty blond going against giant Asian monster wrestlers! </p>
<p>The promo and wrestling abilities of Melina, Victoria, and several others throughout the years has never gotten them to become the top star! And without any top &#8220;marketable&#8221; blond, you have to have noticed the WWE squashing the Women&#8217;s Division right now. </p>
<p>If you think you have an argument, ask yourself this; do you think you will ever see a headline of any PPV being a Black wrestler against an Asian wrestler? Or how about a women&#8217;s feud with two Asian women, for example, Gail Kim against Angela Fong? Or even Kim against a famous Japanese wrestler? How about two Black women wrestlers having a headline feud? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing they could so easily headline HHH vs Cena vs Orton, but would they ever push to headline MVP vs Ron Killings vs Shelton vs The Undertaker in a Fatal 4 Way for the Title?</p>
<p>Heck, they did not even headline Eddie Guerrero vs The Rock on a PPV back in the day!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/11/15/too-many-look-alike-asians-the-curious-case-of-gail-kim-and-lena-yada/comment-page-1/#comment-104012</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>there is this nasty rumor going around that in both the WWE and ECW, the fights are NOT REAL and that the outcomes are planned in advance.  not real competitions!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there is this nasty rumor going around that in both the WWE and ECW, the fights are NOT REAL and that the outcomes are planned in advance.  not real competitions!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.8asians.com/2008/11/15/too-many-look-alike-asians-the-curious-case-of-gail-kim-and-lena-yada/comment-page-1/#comment-139482</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>there is this nasty rumor going around that in both the WWE and ECW, the fights are NOT REAL and that the outcomes are planned in advance.  not real competitions!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there is this nasty rumor going around that in both the WWE and ECW, the fights are NOT REAL and that the outcomes are planned in advance.  not real competitions!</p>
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