3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE SmackDown (12 June - Results & Review)
2. Women’s Tag Champs Are Plain Boring
Confession time: Yours truly thought Brie Bella and Paige would be better than this as Women’s Tag-Team Champs, but they’re dry and dull in the championship hot seat. Thus, it would’ve been nice to see Fatal Influence roll over the top of them here to breathe some life back into the division. It sorely needs new figureheads. Again.
No, hardly a terrible match, but not an especially thrilling one either. Personally, this whinging so and so has zero desire to see a repeat, but you just know that’s coming. The lack of zest in the live crowd during Brie’s selling pre-hot tag to Paige was telling too, but maybe that has a little something to do with WWE’s post-European tour blues. Most US crowds just don’t compare.
Sami Zayn was right etc etc.
Again, being fair to the fine patrons of Rhode Island, what is there to get hyped for when Brie and Paige are out there going through the motions? Perhaps that's unfair, because Bella did try to sell, sell, sell for Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid, but the heel heat section was like pulling teeth by the end of it. The tag to Paige didn't quite pop the house or up the energy levels either.
Boring, dull, uninspired, interminable. That's how this Women's Tag Title reign feels already, and it's mere months old. The sooner Fatal Influence get those straps and find some better babyfaces to work with, the better. Bella and Paige are starting to feel like the female tag equivalent of The Wyatt Sicks, and that's not a compliment.