After WWE Evolution, What’s Next?

Now that WWE Evolution is history, what’s in the store for the women of the largest wrestling company in the world?

WWE Evolution was a big deal for the women in the company, and the company as a whole. Given the number of women employed there now, the moment is here to do more than a title program on each show and a thrown together tag match every week or so while we ride out time until the next pay per view.  There are some things that have been kicked around and rumored but just how feasible are those things?  I kicked around some of the stuff I’ve heard, seen, and thought about myself and here’s what I got:

Women’s Tag Team Championships

Long rumored, long hinted at with real or implied pairings, will they actually happen?  It seems like the easiest one to do, and will bring a lot of goodwill very quickly.  It’s also a quick fix to the issue of having as many women on the roster as they do now but only two titles to fight over in what have become two divisions (Raw and Smackdown) that have attached their respective title programs to longer term storylines.  Nobody is beating Ronda until at least WrestleMania and if someone does beat Becky before WrestleMania it’s likely to be Charlotte.

So you have a glut of talented women wrestlers with nothing to fight over, and until times change getting a non title feud over is not an easy haul today.  The only real obstacle I can think of is logistics.  The champs, whoever, they are, will be traveling a lot as they will be appearing on both brands so long as they hold the belts so that will have to be worked out some kind of way.  But I really hope this becomes a reality and not just a dream.

More Women’s Pay Per Views

Given how Evolution went over there’s plenty of appetite for more all women’s pay per views.  The only questions are when and how often?  The calendar was not a friend this year, sandwiching Evolution between the Super Showdown in Sydney and Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia and squeezing it for promotion time, so a less crowded spot during the year would be preferable.

There’s no reason that putting it on in place of a traditional pay per view during one of the lull periods (after WrestleMania in April, in July before SummerSlam, or in December before the run up to the Royal Rumble begins) wouldn’t work and alleviate a lot of the stress we had over it going in.

But should it be limited to just one a year? Once the specialness fades will there be enough interest for ‘regular’ shows featuring all women two or three times a year?  Personally, I think so.  You got three plug and play matches every time (Raw and SD women’s title, NXT title), four if they do the tag team titles.  You just need some feuds for the bottom half of the card and you’re set.  Seven matches, three times a year is doable.

Regular Weekly Women’s Show

I think a full fledged women’s brand isn’t feasible.  For one, Triple H very eloquently stated that he didn’t think segregating the women is the best way to show that they are equals to the men in the business.  I agree with that, but there isn’t enough TV right now on Smackdown or NXT to showcase everyone sufficiently so some kind of other avenue would be nice.

An hour long thing on the Network where you show some taped matches, have sit down interviews, taped promos, etc could be done without as much logistical hassle so that we can continue to see everyone and not just whoever is in the title program on each show every week.

More Room On Pay Per Views

When we had split brand pay per views it wasn’t uncommon to have more than one women’s match on the show.  In fact 11 of the 19 split brand shows had at least two women’s matches while Elimination Chamber 2017 and TLC 2017 had three women’s matches on the show.  Since they’ve gone back to co-branded shows it’s been nothing but Raw and Smackdown Title matches which means that while you get two matches guaranteed (the exception being Money in the Bank where there were two title matches plus the Women’s Money in the Bank match, there’s nothing else for the rest of the women other than the preshow match Bayley had with Ruby Riot at Backlash this year.

There’s no reason we can’t have at least one women’s match on every pay per view that is not a title match.  Whether there’s a feud behind it or just as a contender’s match kind of thing, let’s do it.  This also applies to NXT Takeover’s.  Right now we get the NXT Women’s Title match and that’s it.  Yeah they tape some other matches at the same arena to show on the weekly show afterwards but why not give two up and comers 15 minutes on the main show to do something?

So that’s what I’m thinking.  2019 has a world of possibilities to explore.  These are a few, and I’m sure there are some I haven’t considered that are on your minds right now.  Hopefully, the people in charge are thinking about some of this, too.

What do you think?