Corey Graves Doesn't Think The WWE Women's Tag Team Titles Have Ever 'Caught Fire’
Corey Graves has been frank with his assessment of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships
Raquel Rodriguez and Liv Morgan are sitting proudly as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, and will be hoping to have a long and exciting reign with the gold.
The belts have arguably been treated as an afterthought within WWE for much of their existence, especially after former champions Sasha Banks and Naomi threw the titles down at management and walked out of WWE in May 2022. Corey Graves seems to agree, saying the following about the straps on After the Bell:
"The champions are going to drive the ship in the women's tag division. It was really important for Liv and Raquel to emerge victorious and, as far as the women's tag team championships go, I'm probably going to catch hell for this, it's never really caught fire. It's never been a strong division. It's sort of been an amalgam of thrown-together tag teams. 'I'm going to team with this person tonight, we have a tag title match we didn't win, okay, time to get a new partner.' It's always been very transient and constantly in flux. I'm talking the entire existence of the titles, since the very beginning.
“Liv and Raquel could be a duo who have what it takes to solidify the division and maybe sit on top for a while and maybe inspire some other superstars who aren't getting the opportunities they so desire right now, who want more TV time, who want promo time, but they're not getting it for whatever reason. Maybe somebody sitting backstage or in catering or a couple people sitting in NXT are going, 'You know what, let me make a run for this.' We haven't had a serious, full-time tag team in my recollection. The IIconics (Peyton Royce & Billie Kay) are the closest we had to hold the titles because they were a full-time act together. The rest have sort of been, 'Hey, be my partner. Okay, we'll have a little run, okay, onto the next.' Everything feels temporary. Raquel and Liv could be very good for the division," Graves said.
Since being introduced in February 2019, 15 teams have reigned as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, with only four of those teams having an official team name.
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