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Tetsujin

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HHH finally remembered Katana and Kayden haven’t been fired yet and have been collecting dust in catering for almost a full calendar year?
 
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Mr. S£im Citrus

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Streets is saying that WWE is bringing back Evolution as a "make-good" for the women getting short shrift at Mania.

Apropos of nothing, it has apparently been announced that Punk/Reigns/Rollins will main event Night 1, and Cena/Rhodes will main event Night 2, so it seems like the women aren't going to be featured either night.
 

Mr. S£im Citrus

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It wasn’t quite a job but they didn’t get stuck with the “make the hometown heroes look good” role. Still good to see them being used in a way that suggests they’ll at least be heard from again.
As sidekicks in a feud that their "leader" is destined to lose? I mean, I guess that's better than not being used at all, but only just.

The Women's US Title might be Zelina Vega's first-ever singles title of her career, but she's not going to win it off of this feud... She might break through at the expense of the next US Champion.
 

Tetsujin

The Game Thread Dude
As sidekicks in a feud that their "leader" is destined to lose? I mean, I guess that's better than not being used at all, but only just.

The Women's US Title might be Zelina Vega's first-ever singles title of her career, but she's not going to win it off of this feud... She might break through at the expense of the next US Champion.
i have no expectation that it’ll ever happen but this is why HHH needs to split the women’s tag titles instead of having all three brands get stuck waiting for whatever the Judgement Day is doing next. It especially makes no sense that NXT (essentially on its own island with all of its other titles) has to interact with the main roster for the women’s tag titles alone.
The KCs had one brief push, got the titles and were summarily punted off TV over the span of like two months and it’s entirely because the tag titles are a mess
 

Mr. S£im Citrus

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i have no expectation that it’ll ever happen but this is why HHH needs to split the women’s tag titles instead of having all three brands get stuck waiting for whatever the Judgement Day is doing next. It especially makes no sense that NXT (essentially on its own island with all of its other titles) has to interact with the main roster for the women’s tag titles alone.
I can agree with the general sentiment, but I disagree with the solution. They don't need more titles: hell, there are already five women's titles on the main roster, and the booking is still terrible.

I mean, just take the titles off Liv and Raquel. Give the KC's a third reign and let them be transitional champions to the Secret Hervice. Then they can hold them until the Meta-Girls get called up.
 

Tetsujin

The Game Thread Dude
So the Roman/Punk/Seth triple threat is such a hamfisted, shoehorned in, stitched together out of disparate parts main event that is largely unfair to the triple threat that SHOuLD have been the main event on night one (Iyo/Bianca/Rhea) and it’s sorta a cheap dumb way to get CM Punk his main event but I’ll be damned if the genuine emotion that Paul Heyman and Phil had in that ring when they announced it, followed by all four guys doing what they do so well didn’t make me really excited for the end of night one