8 Ways WWE Have Already Been Worse Than WCW In 2019

5. Women's Tag Team Titles

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When WWE re-introduced their long dormant Women's Tag Team Champions last December, it was with much fanfare. The beautiful belts, which would float between both brands, not only further equated the promotion's women's ranks with the men's, but added a degree of depth to a once paper-thin division undermined by a solitary focus.

Smartly, the company hand-picked Bayley and Sasha Banks as the inaugural champions. Though their burnish had long since dulled amidst the main roster grime, it felt like a new dawn for a pair of wrestlers retaining residual popularity as NXT favourites.

Everything was going so swimmingly then, until WWE's complete creative meltdown around WrestleMania. For reasons which don't seem to exist, the championships were shifted to the utterly inept IIconics in New Jersey, prompting an angry walkout from the deposed Banks.

Perhaps the collateral damage to the roster would be worth it if there was any appreciable upside to the Australian duo taking the titles. WWE hasn't even given them a chance to make a virtue of their premature promotion; besides squashes over local goons, The IIconics have collectively and individually lost every match they've had since WrestleMania. What's the point of any of this?

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