Batson's Blog

Rumor has it that Stephanie McMahon will announce on the July 23 episode of Raw that WWE will introduce new WWE Women's Tag Team Titles.  Or an all-women pay-per-view, possibly involving the finals of a Women's Tag Team Title tournament. It's an interesting idea. WWE did have female tag team champions in the 1980's, which is kind of funny because they didn't have half the roster they have now. It was really mostly the Glamour Girls and the Jumping Bomb Angels who made those titles worthwhile (for the short time that they were around). Over in TNA / Impact Wrestling , they had a pair of Knockouts Tag Team Titles . It seemed to have potential, but fell to the wayside when TNA stopped putting any thought or effort into the division.  Still, The Beautiful People, Taylor Wilde and Sarita, and TNT (Tara 'n' Tessmacher) made some good television for a while. WWE could potentially have a successful division on their hands at this point. A few years ago...

Today marks one year since ODB and Eric Young won the TNA Knockout Tag Team Titles. While I throw out a congratulations to ODB on that accomplishment (CM Punk is the only other person to have held a title for over a year in recent memory), I can't help but feel disappointed that for an entire year the division has been a joke. ODB and Young are comedic gems for TNA. They're entertaining to watch by themselves. Together, they make the perfect odd couple. However, the fact that a male has been one half of tag titles that are meant for women goes to show that the titles aren't being taken seriously. If that's the case, then they should be scrapped altogether. The fact that the titles aren't taken seriously kind of begs the question: could a women's tag team division ever be taken legitimately? Good women's tag team wrestling is probably too much to ask for since WWE and TNA have a hard time getting it right with the guys. I don't get it thoug...