8 Reasons Why WWE Women’s Tag Division Has Failed

8. Cutting Boss ‘N’ Hug Connection Short

Really, this could have been the #1 entry, but we should start by identifying the first true warning sign about the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.

Sasha Banks and Bayley basically willed the tag titles into existence as the next evolution of women’s wrestling in WWE. At the time in early 2019, the women’s roster was pretty robust, with nearly 30 active wrestlers on Raw and SmackDown, plus another 15 or so women in NXT. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to establish new titles that would give a bunch of women something to feud over and something else to offer the audience.

After becoming the inaugural champs in an Elimination Chamber match in February 2019, the Boss ‘n’ Hug Connection defended the titles successfully at Fastlane, then put them up for grabs in a four-way match at WrestleMania 35… and lost.

This isn’t to say that Sasha & Bayley should have held the titles for a year or something like that, but you put brand new titles on arguably two of your best wrestlers and had a chance to really establish this new championship, and you hot-shotted them to… the IIconics. (More on them later.)

Pulling the rug out from under the women who pushed for these titles in the first place – and at WrestleMania no less – felt like a bad idea at the time, and feels more like an omen now.