4 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (27 March - Results & Review)

1. Seriously Rough Women’s Title Work

Rhea Ripley Jade Cargill
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Michin and B-FAB explained away their union with Jade Cargill as, “She had a plan”. What? That’s it?! Also, them laying into Rhea Ripley for looking out for herself doesn’t make sense when that’s exactly what they’re doing. Yeah, this alliance is off to a rough start, and the promo exchange between Rhea and Jade wasn’t great either. If anything, it was another example of everything wrong with the feud.

Cargill saying, “You’re not even a person on SmackDown” was borderline cringeworthy, and everybody just sort of shouted over the other without any rhyme or reason. There's no flow to any of it. The nose needs to come up on this one real fast. Everyone’s trying their best here, but the story is all over the place and WWE have somehow bungled an easy alpha female vs. alpha female situation like they were going out of their way to do it.

Listen, matches against the likes of Rhea seemed amazing when Jade signed with WWE. You could stick these women on a match graphic and watch eyeballs gravitate towards it, but there does need to be a workable storyline that's better than what's going on thus far. We're around 3 weeks out from 'Mania and all we've had are a lot of repeated lines then B-FAB and Michin going heel for no good reason.

Not only that, but Ripley was mowing down FAB before Cargill and Michin got involved, so Jade's new minions don't even look like a threat in the first place. This is downright bad. Such a disappointment of a rivalry to date.

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