WWE is oftentimes only really good at focusing on one main women’s storyline at a time, though to be fair, it’s one storyline per show, and that was never more clear than it was tonight. The star of the show, on the women’s side of things, was WarGames, which of course, for good reason, since that match is coming up next week, but with the “Last Time is Now” tournament and the men’s WarGames match storyline, that left very little time for any other women tonight.

Poor Chelsea Green, the greatest women’s champion of all time (or, at least that’s what she’s calling herself, and she’s certainly the greatest Women’s US champ) didn’t even get to have her big title celebration, the one that was promoted throughout the week. Sure, WWE isn’t exactly treating the Women’s United States Championship as anything special, but Green has made history as the first woman to win the belt twice. And, Green is the only woman to have held that belt to make it feel like anything special, so she really deserves some credit. If you were going to do one other thing with the women, maybe by shortening up Ilja Dragunov and JD McDonagh’s match, it should have been Green’s celebration, even if you didn’t set up a challenger for her tonight. 

Or have her start some kind of extravagant celebration, only for it to be interrupted by a challenger, only for Green to continue to attempt to hold a celebration in every city for the rest of the year. I hate to say it, but Green’s acting, and I hope they weren’t real tears, really drove this all home tonight. I totally understood what she meant when “the vibes weren’t vibing,” because they certainly weren’t for the women’s division outside of WarGames tonight.

Even Jade Cargill, the WWE Women’s Champion, only got an extremely short backstage segment with Alba Fyre tonight. They belted up Cargill at kind of a strange time, with all the WarGames stuff going on, but she at least could have done something more substantial, and in front of the live crowd.

There were also no women’s matches tonight, which was really surprising, as WWE loves to do its tag team matches, or singles matches involving one person from either team. It was strange to me that it wasn’t done tonight, with a women’s match as the main event, something like a Nia Jax versus IYO SKY or Lash Legend and Alexa Bliss. Of course, those matches usually don’t end with a clean finish, but that would have actually worked well, with the fifth members of the WarGames team coming up in a post-match brawl to make everything official.

Written by Daisy Ruth