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

3. Sign Dr Britt Baker

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Currently already in WWE canon as "Adam Cole's girlfriend", Britt Baker could make quite a splash on either Raw or SmackDown despite a noted lack of buzz surrounding her All Elite Wrestling run thus far.

A combination of misunderstanding and mismanagement has resulted in AEW's Women's Division - and that's a pretty generous misnomer - stumbling out of the blocks since the company launched Dynamite on TNT in October 2019, with Baker the obvious casualty.

Heavily pushed as the leader of the league on all posters and marketing, she was frozen out of the Championship picture in the early days in favour Nyla Rose and eventual inaugural Champion Riho, and has since been booked to lose more times than a potential topliner could realistically expect.

In between the ropes, Baker is solid-if-unspectacular, but wrestling's always about more than the wrestling, and perhaps the dentist wrestler always should have had her eyes on another prize? AEW have gone in hard with the gimmick, but that's nothing compared to how much WWE could and would steer into it.

There exists a perfect place in Orlando for Baker to hone her in-ring skills, but the Sports Entertainment factory in general seems ideal for her pre-made persona.

And if not her...

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