How The Women’s Tag Team Titles Will Go
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Who’ll be the womens tag champs?
This has been a busy week for WWE but one of the stories that has flown under the radar is the announcement of the first ever Women’s Tag Team Titles and an official date for the first champions to be crowned. That would be at next month’s Elimination Chamber and that means it’s time to do some fantasy booking.
So obviously we’re going to need six teams and since we’re going to both shows for these things, it’s a little easier. Here are the teams I’m expecting:
Bayley/Sasha Banks
Nia Jax/Tamina
Riott Squad (Ruby Riott/Sarah Logan)
Mandy Rose/Sonya Deville
Naomi/Lana
IIconics
You can’t say WWE hasn’t been setting these teams up over the last few months. Since this is elimination, let’s see who we can knock off early. Mandy and Sonya aren’t getting any titles anytime soon, Naomi and Lana aren’t surviving a match like this and the IIconics aren’t going to win a thing of value for a long time. In other words, the Smackdown teams would be better off allowing Mickie James and Lacey Evans to take one of their spots instead.
That leaves us with three options and each of them could win.
Tamina/Nia Jax
Having the monsters win the titles first is certainly a way to go and something that has worked for a long time. It sets up several rematches (“You can win when anything goes but between these ropes, we know we can beat you!”) and it’s not like you have to ask WWE to push Jax. I don’t think they get the belts though, as Nia is too valuable as a mountain for someone else to overcome.
Riott Squad
I’d love for this to be Logan and Morgan but I can’t imagine leaving Ruby out of something like this. These three have been feuding with Bayley and Banks for the better part of ever now and there’s no end to the thing in sight. They might as well have some titles to fight over so it seems the slightest bit more important, and I think you know what that means.
Bayley/Sasha Banks
I’m taking the plucky faces as the winners as it’s not like there’s anyone else that is likely to get the belts. These two have been on the road to these things forever now and it makes sense to put the titles on them. If nothing else the celebration could be fun before they turn on each other again later in the year. I can’t imagine they hold the titles long, but they’re the most likely candidates to get them for the first time.
Dang the Smackdown side is awful here. How did that happen?
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You know damn well The Bellas will be plastered all over this somehow.
Yay more titles which means maybe a ten hour mania from now on
I think Shirai & Sane will be in the Tourney. Just a hunch
Kinda funny how the men’s tag team picture on SmackDown is and has been pretty strong for a long time while Raw’s sucks and now Raw’s women’s tag scene is pretty solid while SmackDown’s sucks.
If they want instant interest, I think Sasha and Bayley should be the inaugural champs. The Riott Squad winning would give them some credibility and it’d go along with WWE’s “promise” on new faces and all that jive. Nia Jax and Tamina as champions is about as interesting as watching C-Span.
As for the SmackDown side of things, there aren’t really any good choices. The IIconics are awful, I mean Bella Twin level awful before the Bella Twins actually learned out to wrestle to some degree. Given how much the Bella Twins have regressed, however, they’re probably on a similar level now that I think about it. Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville….well, it might not be awful as Mandy Rose has improved a helluva lot and there’s some genuine promise in Sonya. Naomi and Lana, if that winds up being one of the blue brand teams, is one of those teams where one member is pretty talented while the other one just isn’t. If nothing else, Naomi’s athleticism makes her stand out while Lana is barely able to hook in a credible side headlock. Personally, I’d be fine if they just suddenly moved Ember Moon to the blue brand and have her be Naomi’s partner; might not make a ton of sense exactly, but I’ll take a solid & athletic team over a lame duck team any day.
Bayley and Sasha being the inaugral champs makes sense, but I see the Riott Squad winning them at Mania. There’s also a chance it is Liv and Sarah here, with Ruby’s shenanigans giving them the belts, and Bayley/Sasha have the big Mania moment. It’s intriguing, at least.