Things have not been the best for WWE overall since WrestleMania 42 night one first got underway, and one of the vital underwhelming features of the product has been the ladies’s division, specifically the highest title pictures on each “WWE Raw” and “WWE SmackDown.” WrestleMania saw Rhea Ripley change into the brand new WWE Women’s Champion and Liv Morgan take the World Women’s Championship, and neither one has done much of anything over the past month. As WWE hurtles toward each Saturday Night’s Foremost Event and Clash in Italy, the dearth of really anything in the ladies’s top title scenes has change into rather more noticeable.
Ripley, at the least, has been involved with Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss on the blue brand, standing up against Fatal Influence, and now, they’re set to tackle current champion Jade Cargill, Michin, and B-Fab in a six-woman tag match at SNME. Which is positive, however it’s not Ripley defending her title. Cargill called out Ripley for a match at Clash in Italy on the newest edition of “SmackDown,” however the champion was not even on the show to reply, so the match wasn’t made official.
Morgan has seemingly zero challengers immediately on “Raw,” which is probably going because former champion Stephanie Vaquer was injured and needed some time without work. She may need been Morgan’s Backlash opponent, or perhaps her opponent at one in all the upcoming events. Nonetheless, WWE didn’t even hassle to pivot to have Morgan face anyone else, and she or he’s just been involved in Judgment Day business somewhat than anything of her own. There have not been many ladies, if any, who’ve called out Morgan, which seems very strange and doesn’t make for an interesting women’s division on the red brand.
The newest report has Vaquer possibly back in the combo for Clash in Italy, however it doesn’t seem likely that WWE can have each Ripley and Morgan defend their titles on the premium live event. Neither champion has had a title defense since WrestleMania.
While this currently appears like a much larger problem in WWE, AEW is not exempt from the “loser” aspect of girls’s wrestling relating to its top title, either. The AEW Women’s World Championship match pitting three former women’s champions against Thekla feels somewhat thrown together, irrespective of how good Kris Statlander, Hikaru Shida, and Jamie Hayter are. AEW failed to ascertain a brand new challenger for Thekla going into one in all their biggest events of the 12 months, and the title picture just hasn’t recovered since Toni Storm was taken out back at the tip of March.
Women’s wrestling fans are currently big ol’ losers immediately, and hopefully each firms get things back on the right track for his or her top titles very soon.
Written by Daisy Ruth