7 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Jan 13)

Downs...

4. What Was The Point?

Less than three minutes.

That's what WWE handed Tegan Nox and Xia Li on Friday night, and they should be ashamed of that. Genuine question: What were these women supposed to do with that garbage time limit imposed on their match? This was the very definition of p*ss break booking, but fault for that doesn't go on the wrestlers.

Triple H has done a poor job of making Nox feel important since she returned, and Li is in creative purgatory once again. It's hardly a surprise that this bout played before almost total silence from the live masses - they were served a cold match that was over in the blink of an eye and achieved pretty much nothing.

This isn't how you successfully build a division full of hungry, over workers who can move up the ladder to challenge for titles. At times, it's almost like the women's game comes across as a complete afterthought to these writers, and that's a real shame.