10 Ways WWE Has Screwed Up Its Women's Division

4. Dropping The Ball With The Tag Division

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Aside from the 24/7 Championship, the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship might be the biggest “joke” title in WWE today.

The title sprung to life with good intentions in 2019, but before they could be established with a serious reign, comedy relief tandem the IIconics nabbed the title at WrestleMania 35 and proceeded to barely defend the straps for four months. From there, the titles basically became an afterthought of sorts, with the Kabuki Warriors holding them for nearly six months and defending them against the same three teams (save for one title defense in NXT) over and over.

Then we have the disastrous reigns of Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler – teammates who just couldn’t seem to get along despite retaining their titles for a collective seven months – and Charlotte Flair & Asuka – who lost the titles due to interference from Ric Flair and Lacey Evans (the less said about that, the better).

The women’s tag “division” in recent months has consisted of perpetual losers like Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke and Lana & Naomi. The company also saw fit to implode their only “functioning” tag teams, splitting up the IIconics for no good reason, and having the Riott Squad feud and then tease a reunion for what seemed like forever.

Then this year, WWE has released several women, further gutting their roster and leaving us with two tag challengers: Brooke & Rose, and Jax & Baszler (and possibly Eva Marie & Doudrop). That’s embarrassing, and it just doesn’t bode well for the division.

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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.