In his latest piece, PWP Nation’s Caden Moran discusses how the Sasha Banks and Charlotte feud has ruined the “Women’s revolution” in WWE.
Winston Churchill once said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” and that is exactly the situation WWE has put itself in once again.
Monday Night Raw has just closed the show once again with Sasha Banks as the new WWE Raw Women’s Champion. I truly don’t get WWE’s decisions sometimes, especially with the women division. In the past, WWE has claimed that it is in the midst of a women’s revolution, and don’t get me wrong the women have done some phenomenal things since WrestleMania 32, but in the past couple of months, the women, specifically Sasha Banks and Charlotte, have been destroying any existence of this women’s revolution.
Sasha Banks versus Charlotte has turned into this generation’s John Cena versus Randy Orton and no… that isn’t a good thing. Listen, I love both of these women and they have a lot to be proud of for expanding the women’s division to new heights, but at the same time, they have led the division into a downward spiral due to one main reason: inconsistency.
God, I can’t even begin to tell you how dreadful this rivalry has been due to the inconsistent booking and if you don’t understand what I am talking about, look at the past five title matches between these two women (by the way… five title matches between these two in the past four months… yes, five). They have been literally all over the place. Sasha won the title on an episode of Raw, Charlotte regained it at SummerSlam, then Sasha won it again on another episode of Raw just to lose it at Hell In A Cell and has now regained it again on an episode of RAW. Even God himself couldn’t make that any more inconsistent.
But I know what you’re probably asking yourself, how has this ruined the so-called women’s revolution?
Sasha and Charlotte have been in the spotlight since WrestleMania and have been fighting week in and week out since then and have been trading the Women’s Championship back and forth like a hot potato and it has made the rest of the women, well, irrelevant.
To compare, look at SmackDown LIVE. They make all their women relevant and introduce multiple feuds, but when it comes to Monday Night Raw, everyone else besides Banks and Charlotte, don’t exist and that makes me sick on a personal level because every single woman on that roster has undoubtedly worked their ass off to at least see a sliver of the spotlight, but they don’t get it because the second coming of Ric Flair and internet darling have been hogging the spotlight for the majority of the year.
In order to have a revolution, you need an army. In order to have a revolution, you need a community. Who is that army? Who is that community? I’ll tell you.
That army and that community is made up of every single hard working superstar in the division, whether they’re featured or not. You can’t have an army with just two people and there is no community with only two people.
If there is truly going to be a women’s revolution, ALL women need to be a part of it and not just Sasha Banks and Charlotte. Sasha and Charlotte may have helped spark the revolution, but they are not THE revolution but instead, the entire women’s revolution is and together they can help work towards the change they keep begging for.
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