4 Ups And 6 Downs From NXT Vengeance Day

5. Ignoring Your Own History

WWE is famous for acknowledging its own history when it’s convenient, and then ignoring other parts of its lineage for the same reason. They’ll find various modifiers or qualifiers to shoehorn some random statistic, like “Dolph Ziggler has lasted the longest in a Royal Rumble after entering at the #4 spot on an even-numbered day!”

But the announcers harped on a stat that didn’t sound true the minute they said it: NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Kayden Carter & Katana Chance were the longest-reigning tag champs in the women’s division in WWE history… and that included the main roster.

A quick check revealed that they had indeed passed the Kabuki Warriors’ 180-day reign in 2019-20, but the stat completely ignored the women’s tag division from the 1980s. Literally every women’s tag team champions except the Jumping Bomb Angels held the tag titles for longer, with the Glamour Girls’ first reign lasting nearly five times as long.

Of course, WWE could easily cover and say they were talking about the two active women’s tag titles, but that’s not what they said. It might seem nitpicky, but you don’t get to tout history and then selectively ignore it at the same time.