Batson's Blog

I want to spend a moment this week talking about the insane amount of championships in pro wrestling right now (no, I'm not just talking about the ones that belong to Mercedes Mone).  There are dozens of championship belts floating around between the big 3 (4 if you count ROH?) companies alone, and I believe it's bad for business. It's taking away from the importance of feuds, of winning a championship, and of the actual excitement when a wrestler finally achieves that career-defining moment. In addition to the active championships, there were numerous other championships being defended in the past five years, too.  Thankfully, the WWE 24/7 title, FTW title, and the NXT Women's Tag Team Titles were retired. They weren't being defended regularly so what's the point? I'm going to cover WWE (and NXT ... and Evolve), AEW, and TNA this week. We'll start with the undisputed leader of pro wrestling: WWE.  First, let's take a look at the amount of titles WWE...

AEW has hinted at introducing women's tag team titles for years, but now is the time for Tony Khan to make the move. Currently, the combined AEW and ROH rosters equals about 40 different women. Granted, a lot of the women on the roster page are pregnant, out on maternity leave Ruby Soho), aren't wrestlers (Mother Wayne, Karen Jarrett), haven't been seen in ages (Madison Rayne, Riho, Nyla Rose) or are injured (Harley Cameron). Still, it's impossible to feature all of them every week on TV.  Women's tag matches happen quite frequently already, but titles would give those matches at least a little more purpose. So, why now? Well, beyond the stacked roster, there are multiple free agents available to sign. For example: Kacy Catanzaro and Kayden Carter were just released by WWE Gigi Dolin and Shotzi Blackheart were also released by WWE Jakara Jackson was released (and has experience in a tag team) Isla Dawn was released (and has experience in a tag team) Sonya Deville w...