Waking up to see the hashtag #GiveWWEWomenAChance should send chills down the spine of any wrestling fan. WWE has done incredible things to bring a once irrelevant division into the mainstream, but it appears that they are squandering what good will they created. To go from the Wrestlemania main event, to 2-minute squash matches and no title defenses seems like a huge step backward. With all that said, how do we fix this before it spirals out of control? Well, it might be easier than you think.
Step One – Singles Title Unification
Having two champions made sense when you had a full roster of women and very little reason to fight. Instead of a mid-card title, the WWE went with two main titles to vie for. While this worked well for a while, Becky Lynch winning both at Wrestlemania felt like a culmination of the two belts becoming one, only for her to lose one, seemingly less important, title to Bayley in a successful cash-in. If you really want to give credence to the title, either title, unification would be a great answer. One should not mean less than the other, and unfortunately, that is what is happening.
Step Two – Building the Tag Division
So now that we have ONE singles title, we can have that title be the main Smackdown women’s title. On Raw, the longer show, we can focus on building meaningful tag teams within an already overflowing amount of talent. To be clear, this would mean that Raw would feature the Tag Titles as the main women’s championship, and Smackdown would feature the Women’s Championship. This would be a great way to divide the roster and give a hyper-focus to each section of the division.
Now that we have separated the division, we really need to focus on creating meaningful cohesive tag teams. The Kabuki Warriors have a look, a flow, and an incredible manager. The IIconics are a great heel team, but let’s face it, they are no threat to The Kabuki Warriors once the Warriors take the titles off them. We need real good TAG TEAMS. Not two random women teaming together, but actual tag teams. Tamina and Nia can be a beast of a team. They have the look and can showcase the power of the division. Liv Morgan and Bliss can come together and really form a cool Harley Quinn inspired ‘psycho squad.’ Having 4-6 new and fresh teams to fight for the championship would be a great refresh to the women’s division in general. Not to mention it makes use of a dozen of the women on the roster that would otherwise be stretching in the background of an R-Truth segment.
Step Three – Make Raw’s Second Hour All Women.
RAW is too long. Everybody who watches the show each week will tell you that the show drags, especially in the middle. Hour two kicks off with a recap of hour one, and we get filler segments and one or two matches. What if we used that hour to really change the look and feel of things and let the women run wild? You can feature 2 matches in the hour with a couple of promos and maybe some segment to set up what is happening on Smackdown for the title over there. This will allow the third hour of RAW to also stand out and the tone will shift once more. It will help give distinction to the three hours of RAW while simultaneously show that WWE has confidence that women can carry a weekly one hour slot without having to produce a whole separate program.
So what do you think? Would you support a revamping of the Women’s division? What would your step four be? Either way you look at it, the WWE needs to freshen things up and make things make sense very soon.
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