Did WWE need to have the main event tag team match pitting Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss against Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY end in a disqualification? Beyond the fact that it’s basically tradition at this point, absolutely not — especially considering how engaging the match was, how fast-paced the action was throughout, and all the little details that were scattered throughout it such as Ripley and Flair staring one another down when they had both finally tagged in at the same time as one another. With that being said, if WWE was going to have this match end in a disqualification regardless as means of not giving either team a loss, then this was about the best way that they probably could’ve gone about doing it.

It felt pretty inevitable that Asuka and Kairi Sane were going to show up at some point during this match given that they’re the current Women’s Tag Team Champions, but adding the Judgment Day girls and Bayley and Lyra Valkyria into the mix made it feel like the Women’s Tag Team Championship were THE titles in the women’s division right now that everyone wants to fight over. It was an occasion where a disqualification ending certainly wasn’t the worst option for WWE to choose, as it worked to actually further a storyline, and it actually worked in this particular context in comparison to the ones we typically see in the closing moments of “Raw.”

Written by Olivia Quinlan