Sigh... (Sasha and Bayley)

[Dat Dude]

It’s painful to watch how wasted they are on Raw. Their not challenging Ronda not anytime soon (and this after a year plus of bumping into the glass ceiling that is Alexa Bliss). The women’s tag belts being introduced seems to be a pipe dream at this point. they’ve already fued with one another (on and off) for damn near two years. They won’t turn Banks heel because she sells a bunch merch and incredibly marketable. If they move to Smackdown while Charlotte is there, they’ll basically get the same treatment they did with Bliss. I mean what do you even do with them at this point?

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Bayley beat two opponents in the gauntlet, if anything, she's doing better now than she has in the past month.

[Sparkybob]

They are basically the female version of New Day. They make you a lot of money so they have to be on TV but they don't get to do a lot of interesting things anymore because for the most part they've been there done that.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

They need another women's belt to give the others something to do.

Tag belt seems the obvious choice.

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Bayley just had excellent showing in the gauntlet, and Sasha held her own with her performance in the gauntlet. Whether we realize it or not, they clearly still care about both ladies.

[theironyuppie]

That opening segment of the Gauntlet was the most attention Bayley's gotten for a while. As for their plans going forward, its hard to say though probably not promising in the short-term.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Just make the dumb tag titles already

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Dec 18, 2018 0:59:02 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Just make the dumb tag titles already

Yeah, that’s all I’m waiting for. At least then the Riott Squad feud and matches will actually mean something not just “grr we beat you up last week we hate you”

[trollrogue]

Hopefully more belts come out of this new trend of Women's matches main eventing WWE main. Women (both RAW and SDLive Women's Championship reps) main evented TLC ppv, and again for the last straight hour women main evented Monday Night RAW. I imagine on SDLive Asuka will rise to Ronda's bait and issue an open challenge on SDLive for the main event there too.

The ladies need midcard titles. I would do Women's TV titles before the tag titles-- if you make one tag belt on the Red brand, you'd hafta make a Blue version too and pushing 4 more women above the others in the division seems too much too soon... but having two ladies be gatekeepers of the midcard (Sasha or Alexa for RAW TV Title Champ, and Naomi or Carmella SDLive TV Title Champ) who defend their titles every week in the 10-Minute-Time-Limit TV title match of the week (instead of World Champs issuing open challenges on free tv) is a logical next step for the Women's Div imo.

[Totorob101]

Both of them need a heel turn to save their careers, but with most of the women on Raw already heel its not going to happen.

[theironyuppie]

Dec 18, 2018 3:09:03 GMT -5 Totorob101 said:

Both of them need a heel turn to save their careers, but with most of the women on Raw already heel its not going to happen.

While it might be personally hard because they're friends, I honestly think time on separate rosters would be for the best for both.

[Cvslfc123]

For someone like me who hasn't watched regularly for around 2 years now, it was like they were teasing tension between them then Bayley beat the hell out of Sasha then they were friends again. Like what?

[King Devitt]

What's crazy is I'm pretty confident that Sasha would sell just as much merch, if not MORE, as a heel.

[sunnytaker]

yeah bayley had a strong showing in the gauntlet and did the patented "injured babyface fights through the pain to win this match even though six more are on the way and they could get severely injured by refusing to give up" thing. I was surprised mickie ended up getting the pin but I guess they did need a heel for ember and natayla to go up against- notice not a single face/face or heel/heel matchup until the final one.

I did crack up at corey's comment about how "sasha sat in the back letting everyone else do all the work and comes in at the end to pick the bones like always." though. while the crowd seemed a bit more into sasha winning than nattie you figure nattie had two matches already and a fresh sasha couldn't get the win. which to me puts her a step behind bayley in the pecking order right now. though being sasha it wouldn't take much to put her back into the title picture if they wanted to.


and as someone else said i'd love to see some sort of TV title men's or women's turn up on wither show. 10 minute matches, defended every week but not on PPVs (since they're not on regular TV) to switch things up from the normal routine where non open challenge or tag title defenses are pretty rare. make it the workhorse title, gatekeeper person title or up and comer's title to get someone's feet wet before moving to the IC/US titles or even the world title picture.

maybe after "X" successful defenses they get an automatic shot at one of the other titles. so you can see some heel champ going full coward knowing they only need to survive for one more match to get a shot at a "higher" title

[Pushed to the Moon]

I thought this was going to put Sasha back into something meaningful since it was apparently a "new" show to please fans but instead they go with Natalya?! I've always thought she was so boring. I know people talk about nepotism with Charlotte but at least she does exciting things sometimes. It's probably mean to say it but if Natayla wasn't Hart adjacent I don't think she'd be anywhere near WWE.

[auph10imitated]

The tag titles are the only thing that can save them it inevitably leads to a break up and feud. Other then that then take them to separate brands after Mania. Sasha to Smackdown as a heel to feud with Becky

[Shark]

Dec 18, 2018 12:21:55 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

I thought this was going to put Sasha back into something meaningful since it was apparently a "new" show to please fans but instead they go with Natalya?! I've always thought she was so boring. I know people talk about nepotism with Charlotte but at least she does exciting things sometimes. It's probably mean to say it but if Natayla wasn't Hart adjacent I don't think she'd be anywhere near WWE.

Natalya is chronically dull no matter what role she has. Charlotte can have good matches and can be interesting at times especially with the right opponent. Natalya has the exact same match every time and it's always boring. I know this will sound mean, but I think she's getting a sympathy push right now.

They also need to stop putting Sasha in at the very end of these gauntlet matches. I think every one they've done, she's been the last one in. It's weird, she nearly goes coast to coast for the Rumble, showing she can work a long time in a match, but they always out her in at the end for these.