10 Disastrous WWE Booking Decisions Triple H Has Already Botched
8. Getting The SmackDown Women's Championship Away From Ronda Rousey
It took Ronda Rousey almost 12 months to have a match that closely resembled the magic of her 2018-2019 maiden run, and in frustratingly familiar fashion, what immediately followed it brought the curtain down on a Championship reign.
'The Baddest Woman On The Planet' was defeated by a returning Charlotte Flair in a matter of seconds after she'd survived a punishing defence against Raquel Rodriguez. This, despite the fact that she'd played a bully heel alongside Shayna Baszler for months and beaten 'The Queen' clean as a sheet to take the title all the way back at May's WrestleMania Backlash.
Flair, meanwhile was positioned as a babyface in this exchange, which revealed the whole thing as a rather lazy and transparent attempt to generate more buzz for a SmackDown that also featured John Cena, and take Rousey out of the title picture before WrestleMania season kicked off real. She was booked not to give a sh*t either - no Rumble appearance followed by a fairly understated return two weeks out from February's Elimination Chamber PLE was deadeningly lowkey.
She's still one of the wrestlers who simply cannot be left of the biggest show of the company calendar, but nothing else on the horizon currently looks particularly appealing for either side.