The Raw Women’s Championship match is set for WWE WrestleMania 33 but are you a fan of repetitiveness?
Charlotte and Sasha Banks will face Bayley for the Raw Women’s Championship at WWE WrestleMania 33. However, it’s had an interesting path to get there.
The build toward this upcoming triple threat title match began like this: Charlotte lost in her rematch for the title at Fastlane, with interference by Sasha Banks. The following episode of Raw, both Charlotte and Banks campaigned for their title shots to Raw General Manager Mick Foley. Stephanie McMahon gives Charlotte her title shot, and Banks defeated Bayley for her title shot.
What does this mean? Well, Raw couldn’t muster up fresh new challengers for Bayley, so we’re left with the recycled ones. Actually, that exact triple threat match for the title happened on Clash of Champions, last year. Talk about reused ideas.
That’s how top heavy the Raw Women’s division has been since last year. We’ve either had Sasha and Charlotte beat each other up for the title or Bayley crashing the title picture party. Dana Brooke would play spoiler for Banks and Bayley, on behalf of Charlotte, and Nia Jax would destroy jobbers. So five women exist in the division, just five!
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Monday Night Raw is a three hour TV juggernaut and the same five women grace our screens every week? That’s lazy and unacceptable. WWE has been promoting “The Makeover of Emma” for months now that people mistook as a repetitive body lotion commercial. She should be battling for a title shot against the best the division has to offer, not sitting on the sidelines.
Then there’s Alicia Fox. Being an arm candy for Noam Dar is probably the lowest point of her tenured career. Ever since her mini-feud with Jax in 2016, WWE creative have dropped the ball considerably for the former WWE Divas Champion.
Summer Rae and Paige have been on the injury reserve since last summer. It’s still no excuse for the WWE not to have a contingency plan if these women haven’t recovered from their severe injuries. Paige is dealing with a delicate legal issue with WWE so it’s hard to look past that. For Summer Rae, WWE should be updating their fans with her healing progression. Showing some clips or pictures on Raw would do wonders and help explain her absence and recovery.
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One suggestion would be to introduce a few women from NXT. It would keep some surprising intrigue on the stale division. Women like Aliyah and Danielle Kamela would get ample opportunities facing high-level competition. Instead of seeing Charlotte facing Sasha Banks for the 20th time, Aliyah would face Charlotte to prove to the world that she can be champion as well.
Obviously, a legend like Charlotte or Sasha Banks should be facing against lesser competition, unless there is a great story behind it. This would force WWE creative to think outside the box on how to re-vitalize the division.
Look at how SmackDown Live has successfully utilized all the women (minus Eva Marie) with amazing matches and bitter feuds. This gives the viewers the impression that any of these women can be the champion. Carmella can be the champion Alexia Bliss is at the moment. Bliss may be more talented in the ring but Carmella is just as intelligent in weaseling her way to the title. Everyone on that show has equal footing.
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RAW needs to expand it’s Women’s division by breaking up the predictable flow it’s been on for months now. The short term fix would have to stop pairing the same five women in the same receptive matches. The long term fix has to be expanding the division with interesting storylines and rivalries. Will RAW step up and match SmackDown Live in handling their Women’s division or grow stale in the long run?