There's simply no getting around the fact WWE has dropped the ball on its women's tag team division, leading to the titles meant to be at the forefront of that becoming an afterthought.
Despite some noteworthy champions, that's largely been the case from the start, and it's a real shame when there's definite potential among WWE's female Superstars to do something special with them. Even following Vince McMahon's departure as head of creative, little seems to have changed, but Ronda Rousey hopes to alter that.
On Monday's RAW, the Baddest Woman on the Planet and Shayna Baszler defeated Raquel Rodriguez and Shotzi, Bayley and Io Sky, and Sonya Deville and Chelsea Green to win the vacant Women's Tag Team titles.
Talking to the New York Post, Rousey made her future hopes clear.
"Well, the lack of competition is really the problem," she started. "I mean, we want to be the most active champions out there. I want to be able to defend this title every week and even twice a week on both 'SmackDown' and 'Raw.'"
"But with how dismally shallow the women’s division is right now, there’s not enough women around here to keep us busy for a month. And so that’s the biggest challenge that we have is to get this company to actually care and invest into this tag division."
"It was like the entire women’s division just got stripped clean," Rousey added, referring to the time she spent away from the company after becoming a mother.
"And now we’re the women that are the women that are left trying to piece together, you know, stories and a division, a tag division with around 10 women or even less on each roster. I mean, we’re trying the best that we can to make chicken s–t into chicken salad, and we made some amazing chicken salad [on Monday night]."
Rousey's often outspoken nature has landed her in hot water in WWE in the past, but there's nothing here that's even remotely incorrect. WWE had really fumbled this division, so fingers crossed putting the titles on Rousey and Baszler will go some way in making things right.
If not, we're sure Rousey will have something to say about it...