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Between Charlotte Flair and Asuka recovering from injury, Alexa Bliss on maternity leave, and Becky Lynch taking time off, this is the first time in a long time that the WWE Women’s Division is without a number of its top stars. With power players like Bianca Belair and Iyo Sky tied up in the tag division, the field is wide open for the meteoric rise of WWE’s next female superstar – so why does it feel like the women’s division is running in circles?
Since knocking off Becky Lynch for the Women’s World Championship at King and Queen of the Ring in May, Liv Morgan has been all over WWE TV: scheming with Finn Balor, taunting Rhea Ripley, and fawning over Dominik Mysterio. But despite weekly television appearances, Liv has only defended her title in a televised match against one opponent besides longtime feud Rhea Ripley: Zelina Vega.
As her newly-minted “Homewrecker” demonstrates, Liv is the best wrestler she’s ever been — yet instead of defending her title against the abundance of superstars in the Raw women’s division hungry for a title shot, her storyline has not progressed past an obsession with Dominik Mysterio since she began pursuing him in April. Though Dom was initially positioned as a pawn in Liv Morgan’s “Revenge Tour” (seeking to take and/or destroy everything Rhea Ripley loved), Mysterio has become the unwelcome centerpiece of the most highly anticipated women’s feud of the year.
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It’s not difficult to think back to a time when the internet was chomping at the bit for the return of Rhea Ripley — at long last, The Eradicator would return to Raw to lay down the law with Dominik and resume her feud with Liv. But since Rhea’s return, Ripley, Morgan, and Mysterio have been locked in the same predictable cycle of promos, sneak attacks, and stolen victories, and not only is it preventing Ripley from moving on to bigger and better things, but it’s actively hurting the rest of the women’s division.
Especially in the wake of Raw moving to two hours, female superstars on the main roster are back to having to fight tooth and nail for TV time — Besides Ripley and Morgan, the only women’s segment on Raw’s premiere episode on USA was a five-minute 10-woman tag match in which Natalya, Lyra Valkyria, Kayden Karter, Katana Chance, and Zelina Vega all entered to the same music.
It’s not as if WWE is hurting for female talent, either — between the abundance of talent on the main roster and the slew of high-profile international signees at NXT, there’s never been a more “stacked” roster. But despite being nearly 10 years removed from the “women’s revolution” WWE’s lack of creativity for its female superstars is sandbagging what should be a top-tier division.
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