6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE NXT Spring Breakin' (30 April - Results & Review)

1. Catty Women Can’t Just Stop Being Catty

NXT Women's North American Title
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Ava (she hasn’t got a surname, she’s The Rock’s daughter and the GM of NXT) might boast that NXT has the best women’s division in all of professional wrestling, but even if that were true, it definitely suffers from some stereotypical and misogynistic booking.

During Tuesday’s show, Ava came out to announce the rather involved criteria to crown the first NXT Women’s North American Championship. She explained that there would be a combine to impress judges, who would tap 12 women to compete in six singles matches to determine the competitors for a ladder match for the title at Battleground.

Cue the promo train, with Jaida Parker, Sol Ruca, Ariana Grace and Michin to walk out and interject. After each got to say a few lines, the brawl was on, because these bloody women can’t do anything except just be catty and fight each other. Then the locker room emptied, and everyone brawled in the ring – for no reason whatsoever other than they want to be champion, and fighting randomly apparently will get them closer to their goal.

It was such a meaningful moment that the camera cut away just seconds into the melee showing how silly and unimportant the fight really was. All those women ran out to brawl in the ring for 20 seconds when they had no reason to do so. Yippie.

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