10 Major Challenges Facing WWE In 2021
6. The State Of The Women's Division
WWE has a loaded and enviable women's roster. Why then, still, do they do so little with so many of them?
It used to be that the tropes deployed in the division were the sort that were deemed unworthy for the men. This isn't the case anymore, but only because just about all of the booking is circling the drain. Sasha Banks and Bayley had the best feud of the year and perhaps WWE's best and proper longterm story of the last decade, but those two continue to be rule-proving exceptions.
Charlotte Flair's Tables, Ladders and Chairs return seemed to undo three months of a half-baked Lana push, Asuka hasn't had a proper pay-per-view challenger since she was beating Banks in August and the fact that the former IIconics are trying to get by with makeshift partners on both brands highlights how shortsighted that split was. The company almost never books secondary stories either, so those that aren't fighting for titles get frozen out of the conversation completely.
In January, WWE will lean heavily on those on NXT to plug narrative gaps in their Royal Rumble, and not for the first time. There'll be no better time to have this conversation.