5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Backlash 2024 (Results & Review)

1. Women’s Tag Match Falls Apart

Kairi Sane Bianca Belair
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Does a fantastic finishing sequence and title change override the middle portion of a match going completely off the rails?

That’s the question at hand for the Women’s Tag Team Championship match between the Kabuki Warriors and Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill. At 17-plus minutes, it was the longest match in which Jade has competed, albeit a tag contest. That length, combined with Cargill having to sell for a couple sequences, might have contributed to some very noticeable sloppiness during the middle segment of the match.

Cargill and Kairi Sane struggled to get on the same page multiple times, with Jade having to get into position and people visibly calling spots. It wasn’t pretty.

Really, the blame has to be laid at the agenting of the match. Forcing Jade to sell and take such a large portion of the offense at this stage wasn’t wise. She and Belair have been dominant and should have just run through the Warriors in about eight or nine minutes to win the titles. Instead, they stretched it out to twice that long to fill out the runtime on a five-match card, and the match suffered as a result.

Still, great finishing sequence and a deserved title change to a team that should be near-impossible to beat.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.