12 Ups & 2 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Apr 23)

1. Please Stop Doing This

Kairi Sane Peyton Royce
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Here is The IIconics' combined televised record since becoming WWE Women's Tag Team Champions at WrestleMania 35:-

Wins: 1

Losses: 4

Draws: 0

That one victory was against a pair of jobbers on the 9 April episode of SmackDown. Six days later, they were jobbing out to a thrown-together Bayley/Naomi tandem in under two minutes.

This whole deal sucks. It's the worst thing in the company at the moment. These belts can't be treated as serious prizes until WWE start treating them as such, and the bookers must stop placing Billie Kay and Peyton Royce in matches against other wrestlers who can't lose (like Kairi Sane last night).

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