WWE is oftentimes only really good at specializing in one primary women’s storyline at a time, though to be fair, it’s one storyline per show, and that was never more clear than it was tonight. The star of the show, on the ladies’s side of things, was WarGames, which after all, for good reason, since that match is coming up next week, but with the “Last Time is Now” tournament and the boys’s WarGames match storyline, that left little or no time for some other women tonight.
Poor Chelsea Green, the best women’s champion of all time (or, a minimum of that is what she’s calling herself, and she or he’s actually the best Women’s US champ) didn’t even get to have her big title celebration, the one which was promoted throughout the week. Sure, WWE is not exactly treating the Women’s United States Championship as anything special, but Green has made history as the primary woman to win the belt twice. And, Green is the one woman to have held that belt to make it feel like anything special, so she really deserves some credit. When you were going to do one other thing with the ladies, possibly by shortening up Ilja Dragunov and JD McDonagh’s match, it must have been Green’s celebration, even when you didn’t arrange a challenger for her tonight.
Or have her start some type of extravagant celebration, just for it to be interrupted by a challenger, just for Green to proceed to try to hold a celebration in every city for the remaining of the 12 months. I hate to say it, but Green’s acting, and I hope they weren’t real tears, really drove this all home tonight. I totally understood what she meant when “the vibes weren’t vibing,” because they actually weren’t for the ladies’s division outside of WarGames tonight.
Even Jade Cargill, the WWE Women’s Champion, only got an especially short backstage segment with Alba Fyre tonight. They belted up Cargill at type of an odd time, with all of the WarGames stuff occurring, but she a minimum of could have done something more substantial, and in front of the live crowd.
There have been also no women’s matches tonight, which was really surprising, as WWE likes to do its tag team matches, or singles matches involving one person from either team. It was strange to me that it wasn’t done tonight, with a women’s match because the primary event, something like a Nia Jax versus IYO SKY or Lash Legend and Alexa Bliss. After all, those matches normally don’t end with a clean finish, but that might have actually worked well, with the fifth members of the WarGames team coming up in a post-match brawl to make the whole lot official.
Written by Daisy Ruth