WWE needs to add both women's midcard titles and improved booking for the divisions

There’s an interesting rumor growing online about WWE potentially adding a midcard championship to Monday Night Raw and SmackDown. The conversation sits on both side of the fence, but looking at the matter, this is a piece of a bigger step needed on both shows. Adding new titles would help in some ways, but the real issue is the need to develop more feuds outside the title picture.

WWE has a stacked roster on both shows. While Nia Jax and Liv Morgan reign as the respective champions of both shows, several women within the divisions have superstar written all over them. With ladies like IYO Sky, Bianca Belair, Tiffany Stratton, Kairi Sane, Jade Cargill, and more, there’s a need to find ways to make sure they are on television, even if they aren’t battling for the championship. Adding in midcard titles would help here, but it’s not the total solution that some think of it as.

Think back to GUNTHER’s reign as WWE Intercontinental Champion. Yes, he is a massive force in professional wrestling and fans flocked to everything he did. But WWE did an excellent job building everyone around him. As his opponents looked more credible, it only made Gunther look better when he defeated them. That same type of treatment must be given to the women’s midcard and the ladies moving through it. Just slapping a title around someone’s waist doesn’t immediately make them or the people they are facing more interesting. The equation needs more than that and this is what is missing on the main card.

WWE NXT is handling the situation nearly perfectly. Ethan Page, Oba Femi, Roxanne Perez, Kelani Jordan, and the tag team champions in Axiom and Nathan Frazer all feel important in their own way. Each of them could main event a show, as they have their own feuds built around the titles. This is especially true for Perez’s run as champion, as there are several women who are being booked well enough that they can be elevated to the main event at a moment’s notice. And NXT does this with only two hours of television time each week. If adequate booking is happening on NXT, then there’s no reason it couldn’t happen on SmackDown and Raw.

Adding championships to the women’s division would help a lot of people on the roster. Names like Chelsea Green, Piper Niven, Michin, Naomi, and more would now have something to compete for as they are so far outside of the championship picture. But it is not the whole solution as WWE needs to do more to follow the NXT booking model to help more people matter on each show.