10 Ways WWE Has Screwed Up Its Women's Division

8. The Riott Squad

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Contrary to what WWE tried to sell us in 2020, the Riott Squad never was a beloved team fans were dying to see get back together.

In truth, WWE treated the trio as a glorified job squad during their two-year run. The group never amassed any sustained success and were split up just a couple of months after the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship was introduced, disbanding one of the only regular tag teams in the women’s division.

When Ruby Riott returned from injury in 2020, she immediately turned on Liv Morgan. A couple of months later, Sarah Logan was released, and then they began teasing a reunion between Riott and Morgan, as if this was the Mega Powers reforming. Weeks of this led to the duo finally reconciling… and then nothing. No tag titles, no sustained success, no nothing.

WWE called up a trio of NXT wrestlers as a group, and not a single one of them had any success on the main roster. They kept Logan and Morgan apart for 2019, when they could have been tag title challengers. Now, Morgan is all that’s left of the group, but if they ever re-sign Ruby, watch the announcers fall all over themselves talking about how the Riott Squad was a beloved group.

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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.