10 Disastrous WWE Booking Decisions Triple H Has Already Botched
9. Getting The SmackDown Women's Championship Away From Liv Morgan
It became apparent when Vince McMahon resigned in disgrace that Triple H didn't really see Liv Morgan as his longterm prospect SmackDown Women's Champion. Not for now, anyway.
Maybe this was the thinking all along within the corridors of power. Morgan had cashed in a Money In The Bank briefcase to defeat a babyface Ronda Rousey on the same night she won the prize, which has typically often resulted in short or indifferent first runs with the top strap. But it became a matter of focus - Liv's gimmick was neither one thing or another. Was she a project-done-good living the dream, a wacky injury enthusiast ready to give her body to the cause, or somebody empowered by the position raring to live up the responsibility?
WWE answered with "none of the above". Or "a little bit of all of them". Or neither. And herein lay the problem. Unconvincingly defeating Shayna Baszler in what was comfortably the coldest match at Clash At The Castle having barely squeaked by Ronda Rousey in their rematch, Morgan was a paper champion that never once felt validated before losing to 'The Baddest Woman On The Planet' and feeling too much like a failed experiment for the rest of the year.
Things didn't improve from there though...