10 BOLD Predictions For WWE In 2020
3. WWE Creates Yet Another Championship
There are more than enough, obviously, but that doesn't seem to matter: a title in WWE is no longer recognition of achievement but a dire and nonsensical driver of storylines, or a way to pop a rating through the introduction of a new one.
And, since ratings continue to fall, expect a new title because it feels like change without actually effecting it. 2019 was meant to represent the most important and real chapter yet, in the Women's Evolution - capitalising that feels even emptier now - but WWE has undermined itself by elevating or doing much of anything with just one woman who isn't a Horsewomen. Nikki Cross and Kairi Sane have improved both TV and their fortunes, but as a major player, only Lacey Evans has been pushed to that level. That she is a retrograde character with limited in-ring ability is a worrying omen for what the point of all this was.
A new title - a Women's Television Championship or something like it - could generate short-term interest and masquerade as a symbol of progression and purpose, to be be held, perhaps, by Alexa Cross initially.
It won't mean much, but it does mean Stephanie McMahon can screech about how important she - the title, sorry, the title - is.