6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (25 Nov - Results & Review)

2. Yet Another Title

The moment the Women’s United States Championship was announced on SmackDown, it was only a matter of time before a Women’s Intercontinental Championship was revealed on Raw. That time came on Monday night.

Just to preface the criticism, none of this is to say that the women don’t deserve to have a midcard title as a prize. If you’re going to preach parity and equal opportunity, then the female wrestlers should have this chance to establish an equivalent championship.

However, things would be different if there was a general acceptance that WWE has been booking the women’s division well. Outside of a handful of the usual suspects, the women have been little more than an afterthought until Survivor Series rolled around. Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan has defended Raw’s top women’s title just twice in the past four-plus months.

Outside of Liv and Rhea Ripley, the only women on the Raw roster to receive sustained focus have been Damage CTRL and Pure Fusion Collective, with the latter being a misfire of a group. Creating a new title isn’t going to suddenly mean that there will be more and better stories for the women – establishing the women’s tag titles in 2019 certainly didn’t do that.

Had WWE been booking its women’s divisions to be a focal point of the show with characters fans cared about and compelling stories, a midcard title would feel justified. Instead, WWE is trying to have the tail wag the dog here, and the result could be a title that has zero prestige or value.

You hope WWE can prove this all wrong by dialing in beyond this upcoming tournament – which almost certainly will be replete with triple-threat matches.

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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.