Charlotte Flair’s return appears to be setting a lot of other things in motion, so we’ll
see what’s going on there.
We’ll also check out what’s going with the women’s tag team titles, Bianca Belair,
and much more
Let’s start things off with the brief, but major update for the women’s tag team titles
So throughout the first few years of the women’s tag team titles existing, WWE had a special
rule in place where the women’s tag team champions could travel in between Raw and
Smackdown to defend their titles on either brand
Which was a cool little feature because the division was always thin, so the fact that
the champions could face teams from either brand was definitely something great
But then the rule got extended and branched out even more with the inclusion of the NXT
women’s tag team division
Now the women’s tag team champions were able to go to NXT as well and face tag teams
from that brand
So it was always a great feature that the women’s tag team champions basically had
a free pass to appear on all three major WWE brands
WWE really used this feature back in 2020, where Sasha Banks and Bayley went over to
NXT to make some appearances and defend their titles, and it really helped NXT at the time
to feature these two huge stars from the main roster
But then shortly after that, WWE introduced NXT exclusive women’s tag team titles in
2021
And that instantly received some mixed reactions from the fans because the division was already
weak even with WWE featuring three brands in the division
So to now divide the main roster and NXT women’s tag team divisions into two separate pools
was a questionable decision
But it looks like things will be returning to how it was a few years ago
Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn were drafted to Smackdown during the 2023 draft while holding the NXT
women’s tag team titles, and some fans were confused at first for why they were still
holding the titles, but now we see why
On the June 9th edition of Smackdown, WWE women’s tag team champions, Ronda Rousey
and Shayna Baszler, had a face off with the NXT women’s tag team titles, Alba Fyre and
Isla Dawn
This confrontation was done to set up a tag team title unification match between both
sets of tag team champions
Reports claim that the decision to unify both pairs of women’s tag team titles is something
that has been in the works since April, but how injuries and other little bumps on the
road all got in the way and kept delaying the unification
This tag team title unification match will serve one big purpose of pretty much retiring
the NXT women’s tag team titles only after two years of existence
Reports claim that everything will go back to how it first was of the women’s tag team
champions having the right to appear on all three brands once again
The women’s tag team champions won’t make regular appearances on NXT, but they’ll
make some guest appearances on NXT every so often and whenever WWE decided to use them
on the show
As far as predictions for who will be the new unified women’s tag team champions,
it’s looking like Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler will pick up the win here to keep
their titles and unify them with the NXT titles
Ronda and Shayna just won their tag team titles themselves barely a few weeks ago, so you
can’t really afford to keep the hot potato theme going here for the women’s tag team
titles
So it’ll probably the best option for Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler to retain their
titles and score that big victory of unifying their titles with the NXT ones
It’ll be a great start to Ronda and Shayna’s tag team titles reign
Lots of fans have high expectations for this tag team title reign for Ronda Rousey and
Shayna Baszler
Shayna was even speaking in a recent interview about how these titles weren’t just handed
to them, they had to scratch and claw for the opportunity and how they’re extremely
happy to be the tag team champions
So hopefully Ronda and Shayna can elevate the titles to great new levels
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Speaking of major events, let’s go over what recently happened on the June 9th edition
of Smackdown regarding the women’s championship
So we just went over how WWE knew about their plans to unify the women’s tag titles before
the draft, and it looks like they also had plans already in mind to change the main women’s
titles as well
the 2023 WWE Draft saw the Raw women’s championship go to Smackdown, and the Smackdown women’s
championship go to Raw
Lots of fans were confused, there was no title swap segment, commentators and WWE ignored
the fact that the wrong branded title was on the opposite shows, and it was just a small,
but confusing issue
Well it looks like this was also done because WWE’s plans were to remove the brand labels
from the women’s titles
Which is a very nice change because the women’s world titles were the only titles on the main
roster to still feature a brand label
So the Raw and Smackdown women’s titles have technically been retired and renamed
Aus-ka no longer holds the Raw women’s title, she now holds a championship called the WWE
women’s championship
The title shares a lot of resemblance to Roman Reigns’ title just with a white color strap
Rhea Ripley hasn’t received her new title at the time of this recording, but everyone
expects Rhea’s title to be named something along the lines of “world women’s championship”
and most likely feature a white strap version of Seth Rollins’ title
So it’s a nice little change and it’s a nice release from the restrains of branded
titles
The two women’s world titles now feature different designs, stand out more on their
own, and most importantly…
they’re not tied down and labeled after specific brands, so it’s a nice and refreshing
change for the women’s titles
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Speaking of the women’s titles, let’s go over the big return from Charlotte Flair
and how he return could set some things in motion for other superstars as well
So when it was announced that WWE would be introducing a new women’s title, lots of
fans were joking about how it had to mean that Charlotte was making her return and how
she wanted the title… and surprisingly enough, what the fans were joking about actually came
true
Charlotte returned and made her first WWE appearance since Wrestlemania 39 to confront
Aus-ka and cut the line for a title match
Adam Pearce tells Charlotte Flair to get to the back of the line and wait for an opportunity
But Charlotte Flair says she doesn’t wait in line and how she’s the one that created
the line
Aus-ka goes for the mist, but Charlotte is able to dodge it and take out Aus-ka
It’s later announced that Charlotte will get a title match against Aus-ka in the near
future
Now mind you that this all went down after Bianca Belair confronted Adam Peace about
wanting her own title rematch as well
Adam Pearce told Bianca not to get involved in the title segment and how she’ll get
her rematch if she just stays out of everything that was happening that night
Bianca agreed to be good and stayed out of it, only for Charlotte Flair to return from
a three month hiatus and instantly cut in front of Bianca in line for the title
A furious Bianca Belair went up to Adam Pearce again following Charlotte’s return and he
said he’ll figure everything out
Bianca took to Twitter to voice her opinion on Charlotte’s return and talked about how
she didn’t understand how Charlotte can just come out and demand a title match and
how it’s given to her
Bianca then addressed what many fans are labeling as a botch from Charlotte Flair
When Charlotte was challenging Aus-ka to a title match, Charlotte was pointing and looking
at the Raw women’s title, that had just been retired, instead of pointing at the new
title that was right around Aus-ka waist, which was a bit confusing to viewers
Bianca Belair posted the video of Charlotte’s confusion and had this to say, quote:
“Well apparently we have rematches for different titles…
So…
Problem solved” end quote
A lot of fans wonder if this recent event of getting cut in line by Charlotte Flair
could also contribute to Bianca Belair’s eventual heel turn
Bianca tried being nice and listening to what was asked of her by Adam Pearce, but in the
end, it just made her look like a fool
So is Bianca taking a lot of mental notes from what’s happening around her right now?
and could this lead to her snapping and taking that heel route with her character?
It most definitely seems like the seeds are being planted for something like that to go
down, so it’ll be very interesting to keep an eye on
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