3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown: Merry Christmas (Dec 23)

3. Burned Through It Already?!

Tegan Nox Xia Li
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Here's another question for the writers.

Last week, Xia Li covered up and effectively cost Tegan Nox and Liv Morgan the chance to become Women's Tag-Team Champs. Why then, in a 'Gauntlet' bout here, did Tegan get absolutely no revenge for that moment? Xia barely even broke sweat when dispatching the recent returnee.

Their whole story came out looking like an afterthought, and it wasn't even decent background noise for Raquel Rodriguez' obvious march towards number one contendership. Once again, WWE's women were forced to feed on scraps, and their original story was made to look completely useless.

Xia got no comeuppance for her title match invasion. Like, none at all. Adam Pearce punished her for wrecking a seemingly major match by putting her in line to challenge for the SmackDown Women's Title? Yeah, because that makes sense.

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