10 Worst Decisions We Have Made As The Authority Of WWE
4. Just Sort Of Made The Rules Up As We Go Along
Come on, guys. We're better than this. We should know that consistent world-building is crucial to immerse our audience in that world.
If, fundamentally, nothing matters, this makes escapism quite difficult. We retreat into a fantasy world to relieve ourselves of real-life headaches, not to suffer more of them. We want to watch engaging stories with physical eruptions; ideally, we don't want to ask why Naomi and Carmella A) teamed up in the first place and B) simply announced their entry into the Women's Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber match. This is in contrast to their RAW counterparts, who had to qualify.
This is the sort of head-scratching booking that has driven off a sizeable share of the audience, who have been conditioned not to invest their time in the product.
We probably shouldn't have created the new titles in the first place, really. There are so few women's wrestlers on SmackDown that Sasha Banks and Bayley haven't appeared on the show, and one of the three tag teams on RAW has Tamina in it.
It also has Nia Jax in it.