7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 30)

3. Title Defense Set… Off In Future

This is a rough down to issue, but the moment the Becky Lynch/Asuka Raw Women’s Championship match was made official, it made it official: The title will have gone nearly four months without being defended on TV.

Lynch last defended the women’s title at Hell in a Cell on October 6. It will be three months when next week’s Raw rolls around, and we’ll still have three weeks to wait until the Royal Rumble where the title defense will take place. That is insane, like Brock Lesnar title defense (or lack thereof) levels there.

Now, there’s a couple real reasons for this: Survivor Series was the champion versus champion versus champion match, and TLC was the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match. But you’re telling us that they couldn’t have figure out that it had been a while since Becky defended the title and just booked an open challenge defense?

Yes, Lynch has played up this “management treats me as the golden goose” angle, but it’s ridiculous to think that a wrestler whose entire persona is based on bucking authority and demanding a fight doesn’t just march to the ring and issue an open challenge. We see it happen almost every week! Hell, Charlotte Flair issued one Monday, and The OC and Street Profits booked their own bout in the arena.

But to potentially go 112 days without a televised title defense? That’s just unforgivable.