On this week’s Smackdown Live, Charlotte Flair faced off against Asuka for the Smackdown Women’s Title, which was unexpected. Flair went on to win the match and became the new Smackdown Women’s Champion, which fans and wrestlers alike did not take too kindly to.
Dave Meltzer commented about this decision during Wrestling Observer Radio where he said WWE was considering this idea for a while but finally decided to go through with it last night.
“Everything in this program has constantly been shifted and changed. So like yeah this is obviously a response to something however Vince woke up and you know… now the idea of this… the idea of both belts at stake or both belts involved in this match is not new, okay? But, Vince decided to go with it today.”
“It’s not like someone came up with this idea this afternoon and Vince goes, ‘Great idea.’ This has been around, I mean it was around… I don’t know. I remember someone sent me a thing and was like, ‘Oh what do you think of this idea?’ This wasn’t even someone important at all, but it was out. The decision was made today, so yeah. People saying there’s no storyline build, well, they weren’t even going to do it until today. So how’s it going to be a storyline build when you change direction again?”
It seems that WWE might be putting both the RAW and Smackdown Women’s titles on the line at the Wrestlemania main event. This might be the first stage of unifying the Women’s Titles in WWE, but it isn’t confirmed yet.
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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.
