10 Quick Fixes For WWE's Women's Division In 2020

5. The Kabuki Warriors Take The Tag Titles Back On The Road

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Before the belts were buried deep by a pointless run for The IIconics just two months into their existence, the Women's Tag Team Titles were supposed to match the likes of the NXT Women's Championship in terms of prestige and (eventual) legacy.

Bayley, Sasha Banks and others campaigned them into existence, with 'The Hugger' and 'The Boss' becoming first champions on a wave of promises to take the titles anywhere they were welcomed. Long before NXT was an entity on the USA Network, the pair were showing up at Full Sail and offering up a shot should a pair of women fancy their chances. They travelled to SmackDown too, and almost certainly would have nipped across to the UK had WWE not already lost interest in that NXT sister show.

The picture they'd painted never materialising was a source of tremendous frustration - gone were a string of exciting dream matches that could have offered far more than the limp four-way that cost them the straps at WrestleMania 35. But in Asuka and Kairi Sane, there appears a hope. A chance.

The Kabuki Warriors had a ripper of a doubles duel with Dakota Kai and Tegan Nox on the October 30th edition of NXT and there are surely more to be had. It's a way to create instant prestige when some is desperately needed.

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