WWE Evolution Will Be a Lackluster PPV

On October 28^th, WWE is hosting their first ever women’s only PPV Evolution. When the announcement was made in July, fans and wrestlers were excited. WWE has been pushing a Women’s Revolution the past few years by giving their female roster more airtime and more opportunities. While the women have done groundbreaking work with their matches and storylines, there is still some criticism that WWE wasn’t pushing the women to their full potential.

When the Evolution PPV was announced in July, it was another historic moment. The PPV would feature the talents of the current roster, while also bringing back the pioneers in women’s wrestling. Immediately, fans became excited at the prospect of dream matches and possibly the introduction of new championships at the PPV.

With three month between the announcement and PPV, WWE had plenty of time to create matches and engaging storylines for the women.

So have they lived up to their promise of booking an iconic PPV?

Let’s take a look at the matches planned so far.

• Ronda Rousey vs Nikki Bella for the RAW Women’s Championship
• Becky Lynch vs Charlotte Flair in a Last Women Standing match for the Smackdown Women’s Championship.
• Kairi Sane vs Shayna Baszler for the NXT Women’s Championship
• The finals for the Mae Young Classic tournament
• Alexa Bliss and Mickie James vs Trish Stratus and Lita
• A battle royal for a #1 contender championship match featuring stars such as Asuka, Naomi, Ember Moon, and Torrie Wilson.

Aside from these matches, it’s also possible there will be a tag match featuring The Riott Squad vs Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Natalya. With these being the matches booked so far, fans have started to lose interest in the PPV and you can’t blame them.

WWE had a chance to do right by their female roster and put on a thrilling show, yet it’s turning out to be lackluster.

But with Vince reportedly in charge of the show, fans should’ve known to expect something like this. Unlike Triple H and Stephanie, Vince has a reputation of not caring about the women’s division. Based the booking of Evolution, it’s obvious he still doesn’t.

It seemed like Vince’s main focus was on Super Show-Down in Australia and their upcoming Crown Jewel PPV. If Vince and the WWE crew could create stellar matches for those shows, why couldn’t the same effort be made for Evolution?

The lack of buildup for Evolution has fans disheartened along with some of the female talent. After the battle royal was announced, many of the stars took to Twitter to voice their displeasure. The women’s roster has every right to be angry, the PPV was their chance to shine and now they’re going to be thrust into some battle royal that nobody is going to care about.

With a week til the PPV, WWE is going into promotion overload for the show. Yet, despite the talents of Ronda Rousey, Nikki Bella, and Trish Stratus; that won’t be enough to save the show. Such a shame that a show started out with promise, yet has quickly turned into a dud.