7 Signs WWE Is Planning A Women's Tag Division
It's right under our noses.
Becky Lynch has been on a crusade for a while now to get WWE to reintroduce a women’s tag team division (WWE’s original women’s tag belts appeared between 1983 and 1989). The often cloudy crystal ball of the dirt sheets says WWE doesn’t think it’s the right time. Raw and SmackDown Live!, though, are telling a different story week after week, and they’ve been doing it for a while now.
Over the last year, both Raw and SmackDown have been trying to one up the other by pairing their female superstars up two-by-two like a poorly thought-out Noah’s ark, and it’s been happening ever since the mirror-image debuts of Absolution and The Riott Squad back in November, 2017.
The all-women’s pay-per-view, Evolution, is coming up fast so there’s never been a more logical time to debut new belts and “new” tag teams. If not at the event itself, then directly afterward to capitalize on the likely momentum.
Now, we all know better than to trust WWE with logic, or long-term storytelling, but over the past full year they’ve set up a full division’s worth of teams while we weren’t paying attention.
7. The Riott Squad Has Been Raising Mild Heck For A Year
So. Sarah Logan is a viking now. Liv Morgan comes off a bit like a creepy horror movie doll, and Ruby Riott just got back from injury. Sure their idea of a “riot” is cutting a guy’s tie and on a mirror with lipstick on the way to the ring, but all three members have been presented almost exclusively as a team. They’re already a fully functioning tag team unit. So much so that there’s a good chance that fans wouldn’t really know how to react to any of them on their own.
The idea of a three-person team competing together in a standard tag division obviously has a precedent for success with the strength and popularity of teams like The New Day, SAnitY, The Shield, and a rumored return of the Wyatt family.
If WWE really wants to hit the nail on the head with this group, though, they need to keep them together with a plan to send Riott after the Raw Women’s Championship while Logan and Morgan better establish their own identities in a hunt for the tag team titles. That same format has done wonders for The Undisputed Era.