5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (14 Aug - Results & Review)

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4. Where The Women’s Title Scene Fell Off

We'll get to the good in the women's scene shortly, don't worry.

Nia Jax and Lash Legend came out to confront Chelsea Green following all the stuff with Nick Aldis, Gunther and Matt Cardona that opened the show. Nia said she has a history of breaking faces around here and wants the Women’s Title, then Tiffany Stratton rushed out to even the odds. However, Green didn’t help her fight off the heels “because she’s not medically cleared”.

So? Surely she can still fight back? This wasn’t an actual match, so it wasn’t official anyway. The whole thing came across as a weird tail to the opening drama, and it falls flat ‘cause who’s really buzzed for Jax challenging anyway? It wasn't a great look for Chelsea that she watched Stratton take an absolute kicking whilst asking the referee to stop things. Take matters into your own hands, champ.

We've been there done that on Jax being a monster who bullies her way to title shots, and it's plain boring nowadays. Also, what's up with Lash just standing there making mean faces (or looking like she doesn't belong) when Nia is on the mic? She was in the frame at SummerSlam, not Jax, so shouldn't she be making a claim to challenging Green instead? That'd be a lot fresher than Nia vs. Chelsea, assuming that's even going to happen.

As usual over the past while, Jax said a whole load of nothing, then it was strange see Green ask a damn ref to "help" as Tiffy took some shots.