10 Times WWE Totally BOTCHED A New Title

4. WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship

Mick Foley 24/7 Championship
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This currently active title shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention.

When WWE finally created the Women’s Tag Team Championship, it was a dream come true for Bayley and Sasha Banks, who basically willed them into existence. Fittingly, the duo won the inaugural title match at Elimination Chamber 2019 in a titular match…

...and then lost them seven weeks later at WrestleMania 35 to the IIconics.

That’s not meant to be a knock on Billie Kay and Peyton Royce themselves, but the Aussie tag team weren’t known for their in-ring prowess, and worse, they almost immediately disappeared from WWE programming (as did Sasha, who went on hiatus for a few months), and with them, so did the championship’s credibility.

The women’s tag titles have been little more than a prop during most of their four-year existence, with makeshift teams holding the straps more often than not, and there never being a consistent focus on the women’s tag division.

Sure, they’ll have their moment periodically on television, but this championship was horribly botched shortly after its debut and suffered as a result.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.