7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE NXT TakeOver: Respect

5. Replenishing The Ranks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sve0Bpw0Ag Forget the WWE€™s version of the Divas Revolution. It€™s been sanitized and bastardized into a cautionary tale of what happens when WWE is handed a golden opportunity: the company snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. Instead, it€™s worth it to focus on the place where the revolution started: NXT. However, NXT€™s women€™s division has been depleted due to the recent round of promotions, leaving at one point five regular female wrestlers on television (with others dropping in sporadically). Recently, we€™ve seen Bille Kay and Peyton Royce join the ranks, and Wednesday, Asuka made her much-anticipated debut. (We€™ll largely discount the return of Eva Marie.) We also learned Wednesday that Nia Jax, whose vignettes have been airing for nearly two months, will debut next week on NXT. Once that happens, you€™ll have 10 women featured on television regularly, plus the occasional appearance from ol€™ Blue Pants. Hopefully this new round of women can live up to bar set by NXT€™s Four Horsewomen.
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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.