Thoughts on the WWE Women's Tag Titles

Thoughts on the WWE Women's Tag Titles

WWE has announced that they will be having tag team titles for the women.

This isn't the first that they will be doing this, as they did this in the 80's for a brief period of time. The division consisted of two whole teams, The Glamour Girls and The Jumping Bomb Angels.

What happened? Well, it doesn't seem like the division had much thought put into it and it seems like the goal for it was to try and copy the successes of All Japan Women, as Dump Matsumoto, Bull Nakano and The Crush Girls were brought in for MSG appearances. I think it also pretty clear at the time that the non-Japanese girls the WWF used, minus the Glamour Girls, really just weren't up to speed in any aspect.

What has changed?

WWE isn't building this off of totally nothing anymore. They have some decent talent, homegrown and not, such as Charlotte Flair, Asuka, Rhea Ripley, Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss and others. Some of these girls are more over than some of the men and Asuka at one point was my pick for the best wrestler in the world, while Flair is the complete package. Rhea Ripley has tons of potential and Alexa Bliss has definitely surpassed late 2000's expectations.

The whole landscape has also changed. Pushing women wrestlers is seen as progressive and scores a lot of brownie points with various groups. It also has helped WWE get a lot of mainstream press they probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise. It still gets the old T&A audience, but it also gets a female audience as well.

But here's what hasn't changed - WWE still doesn't really have the foundation for a women's tag team division and still has not fixed its issues with booking tag teams.

You can slap any two wrestlers together and make them a team, but does anyone really want to see Asuka and Naomi? Or Alicia Fox and Mickie James? I don't, and I haven't really encountered anyone who wants to see it either.

Even of the established teams, there's not much that excites me. The Iconics and The Bella Twins don't really do it for me, Nia and Tamina don't really do it for me, the Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose team doesn't do it for me and Sasha and Bayley don't really do it for me. I do like the Riot Squad though, but I'm tired of seeing Sasha, Bayley and friends vs The Riot Squad every week and I don't really see that endless feud going anywhere anytime soon.

How many matches are really going to be there? And how many of them are going to be matches people really want to see?  Yeah, a women's division will score points with some groups, but not if it's terrible and it really looks like it will not be very good at all.

The other issue that I mentioned above is that WWE has a lot of issues with booking tag teams. Tag teams exist in WWE to pair random people together that they don't know what to do with and to seemingly put over feuding singles wrestlers, who no matter how much they hate each other, can easily destroy even the most established teams. It's hard to imagine that the women's tag team division won't be handled the same way when they need some type of twist to get interest in the next big match.

Tag Teams are hard enough to deal with as is because you need to have two wrestlers, which doubles your chances of injuries and doubles the egos involved. And like the singles division, you have to constantly add and remove people to keep it interesting, and I just don't think the talent is there for that in the men's division, yet alone the future women's tag team division.

Overall, I'm not very high on this idea. It sounds great on paper, especially to people who aren't that into wrestling, but in reality, I don't think it's going to work out as planned. I think it's just going to be another prop and further decrease the meaning of titles.