10 Signs WWE’s Women’s Revolution Is Dead
4. The Queen’s Crown Tournament
Fans had clamoured for a women’s equivalent to King of The Ring and it was the logical next step after the women’s Royal Rumble, Money In The Bank and so forth. The Mae Young Classic was a promising precedent, with WWE proving they could book a well received women’s tournament. So last year’s Queen’s Crown tournament, whilst hardly a groundbreaking idea at this point, was a good one, in theory. In practice, it was utterly self defeating.
The tournament’s six quarter and semi-final matches came to less than fourteen minutes of in-ring action combined, averaging less than two and a half minutes each.
Carmella defeated Liv Morgan in just one minute and 40 seconds. The same Liv Morgan WWE would soon be trying to push as a plausible challenger for Becky Lynch’s Raw Women's Title. Now admittedly, even that was over three times as long as the 30-second tag match that inspired #GiveDivasAChance. Some of us fans are never happy!
These matches might have been considered a bit on the brief side as Standard TV fare but to present them as part of a tournament for a prize allegedly worth winning? It hardly made the tournament feel prestigious. Particularly when you can directly compare with the men’s tournament that saw no matches run under eight minutes.