WWE Women's US Championship - Who Should Be the 1st Champ
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Raj and Billy excitedly discuss the new WWE Women's mid card title, and give major props to WWE for its creation. We talk about who the inaugural champ should be, how the championship should be booked and what sort of opportunities it and the 3rd SmackDown Hour will present the women in WWE. We also discuss AEW and the upcoming Mercedes Moné vs Kris Statlander match along with Mercedes upcoming match vs Hazuki for the NJPW Strong Women's Championship. We could be in for another top level run from the CEO over the next 3 months between AEW, NJPW and Stardom. Lastly, what could be in store for Alexa Bliss when she returns to the WWE? #mercedesmone #wwe #aew #womenswrestling #michin #biancabelair #krisstatlander #alexabliss #njpw
I think the problem with AEW as it relates to women's wrestling is that the audience has had it beaten into their heads from Day 1 that it's not important. I wasn't a Day 1 AEW watcher, but I've plenty of articles that talked about the women's division back then not being very good, mostly due to a lack of talent. They didn't have the base of talent that the men's division had, nor did they have a lot of tv experience.
Until Tony Khan comes to realization that the biggest obstacle his women's division has to face is his apathy towards booking them on equal footing with the men, the division will never move forward. Mercedes has been cleared since May, but hasn't main evented a single episode of Dynamite, and she's the TBS champion. Meanwhile, Shelton Benjamin has been there for a cup of coffee and already main evented. I think Ricochet has main evented and episode of Dynamite with Ospreay. Even when Mariah main evented vs Anna Jay on Collision for the world title, their match wasn't the longest match on the card. That honor went to Fletcher vs Komander, a match that had no stakes and no story whatsoever.
But where Tony Khan (and others) erred was not giving the women more opportunities as the division started to grow as the level of talent in the division grew. Injuries hurt their depth, but that should have opened up a spot for someone else to step up. And audiences aren't stupid. They see what we see. The division has more talent than ever, yet just last week the entire women's division got 11 minutes of in ring time. That was less time for the week than 4 men's matches got on Dynamite. That was less time than 2 women's matches got on NXT.
It's striking to me that NJPW knows exactly how to use Mercedes correctly and present her as a big star, and AEW doesn't.
At All In, we got the payoff to the Toni/Mariah story, one of the best stories AEW has ever told regardless of gender, and one that had been going on for nearly a year not in the main event (or co main event), but in the second match on the card. As much as I hate on WWE, at least they let the women kick off PLE's over there. Tony Khan is actively hurting his own women's division and I don't know if he's doing it intentionally or if he is just getting bad advice from people in AEW that women's wrestling doesn't draw, even though he got his ass kicked by an episode of NXT that was running outside of their normal timeslot that had women open and close the show.