2 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE NXT UK (10 June)

2. Jumping The Gun

We’ll touch upon the match later on – and what a f*cking banger it was – but Meiko Satomura being chosen to usurp Kay Lee Ray’s record-setting reign as NXT UK Women’s Champion is an insult to the remainder of the women’s division there.

Satomura hasn’t helped build the brand. She’s merely a name that can draw in a new audience to the show, which, in fairness, is seriously needed. This title switch is no doubt intended to build a bridge for the inevitable formation of NXT Japan with Satomura’s Sendai Girls promotion.

It just didn’t need to come at the expense of the women who were more deserving. Emilia McKenzie, Piper Niven, and Jinny are all far more deserving of the title, not Meiko Satomura. To put it into perspective, those three are currently 20, 30, and 31-years-old, respectively; Satomura is 41-years-old. In other words, she shouldn’t be positioned as the face of the division.

Of course, it now creates a huge moment for further down the line for whoever ends Meiko’s run on top, however, her run should never have happened. She doesn’t need the title like, say, Emilia McKenzie needed it.

It’s a purely greedy booking choice for WWE as a business, unsurprisingly.