6 Ups & 1 Down From WWE SmackDown (22 Nov - Results & Review)

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1. Women’s WarGames Feels Too Rushed

Best to get this out of the way ASAP.

It’s pretty hard to get hyped up for the women’s WarGames match at Survivor Series next weekend, to be honest. Everything about it feels lumped together just because it’s November and WWE wanted another excuse to use the double cage. In short, they should’ve kept WarGames exclusively for the OG Bloodline vs. New Bloodline story. That's a far-reaching tale with considerable depth, and it's worthy of the gimmick.

Bayley will presumably replace Jade Cargill in the match due to her mystery attack injury plot, but that also stomps all over Bianca Belair not trusting the ex-Damage CTRL leader since their run-ins as rivals. To that point, why is Bianca suddenly content to team with IYO SKY then? Nothing about that makes sense. It spits in the face of consistency WWE often fights so hard to champion.

Thrown together, illogical stuff like this is what Triple H should be avoiding, not writing. Survivor Series will be the second PLE in a row where top female champs like Liv Morgan and Nia Jax have been in so-so situations too. That's pretty annoying, and it doesn't exactly bode well for another female belt on the midcard if champs are spat out into scenarios like this just because it happens to be a certain month.

SmackDown's tag match with Bayley and Naomi vs. Tiffany Stratton and Candice LeRae was also lacklustre from a technical standpoint. It was a step down for all of those women from what they've been doing lately. Gee, can you tell this writer isn't high on the women's WarGames feeling so rushed?!