When Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out on Raw back in mid-May and left behind their WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship titles, they probably didn’t think no one would follow after them as champions. Nor did WWE, which announced that new titleholders would be coming thanks to a tournament of some sort.
Fast-forward nearly two months and that hasn’t been the case, nor have the titles so much as been mentioned on WWE programming for weeks. Fightful Select offered an update to that end this week, saying that talent has confirmed that “they’ve received no word of when or if the tag team title tournament will actually happen,” and that even behind the scenes, there’s been no discussion of the Women’s Tag Team Championship at all.
One of the issues, of course, is that WWE barely has any women’s tag teams to compete for the titles. Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H. are a notable exception, having teamed together on the July 11 episode of Raw, but their partnership has seemed tenuous from the start, and the duos they face are generally two singles wrestlers paired together for a one-off match — as was the case with Liv Morgan and Asuka this week.
Almost every other notable name in the women’s division is embroiled in a chase for one of the two singles titles, including the likes of Natalya and Carmella, who were both part of tag teams not long ago. The company could call up teams from NXT, of course, but even there, tag teams don’t seem to be a priority considering one of the women’s champs just turned on the other on July 12.
It’s possible WWE simply doesn’t want to call attention to the Women’s Tag Team Championship considering how everything went down with Banks and Naomi, who also currently exist in an “out of sight, out of mind” limbo until they are officially released or return to the fold somehow. But until something changes, the titles they left behind have been pretty much forgotten, which is strange but may also be for the best.
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