How WWE Should SAVE Women's Wrestling

The question isn't asked as much anymore, but is NXT a developmental brand or a third one?

Triple H has gleefully labelled it as both per the yarn he's spinning at the time, but the topic was a hotter one when there was still a ratings "war" to consider. Yet, there are those that never considered the black-and-gold/2.0 show a third brand, and as far as women's wrestling is concerned, some of those fans still don't. That's because those fans watch Impact Wrestling...

For several years now, Impact Wrestling has been a steady away version of itself. Perhaps the most steady away in its complex 22-year history, in fact. No longer aiming to be a distant (and that understates it) Number Two promotion in North America, nor even really worried about if the wider audience even wants a Number Three, Impact Wrestling has figured out that there are enough people that watch, enjoy and accept Impact Wrestling for exactly what it is. And as part of the show settling down enough to satisfy its core base and flirt with the odd casuals/TNA nostalgia addicts, Impact has preserved the integrity of the Knockouts Division.

The name should feel dated - it was established to be (literally) punchier than "Divas" once upon time - but legacy and lineage has elevated it, and the tenure implies and often reflects how much work was done back when it was neither popular nor objectively easy to do.

Years and years pass by with a division that promotes consistently good-to-great action, a level of parity that outright ensures that time will be given to female matches and feuds over anything the men are doing based on the quality of the action and drama. There will doubtless be some cynical motivation underneath during particularly barren spells for the divisions in WWE and AEW, but perhaps thats on the two biggest players not to leave so much space open for that in the first place.

Never in recent memory was this more apparent than during the latter stages of Jade Cargill's TBS Championship run. A run which is now over, reportedly alongside with her AEW one. She's potentially crossing the divide.

How did this happen?!

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