WWE has finally committed to the Jade Cargill Project. Always promoted as something of a work-in-progress, both in AEW and WWE, Saturday’s win over Tiffany Stratton proved that WWE is finally ready for Jade Cargill to be a star. She’s done her time alongside Bianca Belair, she’s reportedly been doing her homework since her days in AEW, and now she’s finally a world champion.

It is yet to be seen if this reign will come anywhere close to Cargill’s dominant AEW TBS Championship reign, but defeating a woman who has defeated WWE veterans like Charlotte is a big show of faith in Cargill. Tiffany Stratton has not exactly been a tomato can in her time as WWE Women’s Champion, and that her momentum is being passed on to someone who is arguably as much of a young upstart as her is another step in the right direction for the women’s division, which has for so long relied on the likes of Charlotte or Becky Lynch or other stars from WWE NXT’s Black & Gold days.

Stratton and Cargill didn’t exactly have a five-star classic, but the match was an important step in developing the stars of the future, one that both WWE and AEW can be hesitant to take at times. For any Jade Cargill fan, it can be frustrating to hear her constantly spoken of like an unfinished lump of clay when she’s clearly improved over the years, and Saturday was a much-needed reminder that she’s closer to the main event than she’s ever been.