3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Feb 24)

5. Another Random Female Tag?!

Ronda Rousey Shayna Baszler
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Honestly, how many of these can one promotion form?

Natalya and Tegan Nox are now WWE's latest thrown-together female tag-team, and they won't fare any better than the 842,722 duos who have been chucked against a nearby wall by this creative nucleus since the Women's Tag-Team Titles were born. It's f*cking boring now, guys.

Sure, it was great to see Shayna Baszler score a win, but that random women's tag-team generator WWE has backstage needs to go. The live crowd wasn't into Nattie and Nox (they've been given no reason to care about Tegan since she returned), and their silence is also worrying for the Baszler and Ronda Rousey combo.

WWE clearly wants to heat them up as an unbeatable team before WrestleMania, and yet...well, there's just no long-term appeal to them beating random teams. Shoving Natalya and Tegan at Shayna/Ronda isn't a substitute for fleshing them out as unstoppable heel badasses.

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