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If I had to sit here and talk about the many flaws of the HHH era in terms of booking I’d be writing like 45 pages of this, but I’ll focus on his treatment of the Women’s Division and specifically how female wrestlers just don’t feel important on the shows as WRESTLERS. The main complaint would be how TV time is not enough for the roster to truly be in the spotlight and show what they can do, but that’s a complaint I have with the two biggest wrestling companies today. If you go and look back at any weekly program in WWE, you’ll see how women are given matches that last from 2-9 minutes, with the exception being title defenses (those go for 11 minutes, and that’s not long either)
Bayley, one of the best wrestlers in the company, was given less to zero importance to her rivalry with Iyo Sky, even if it was compelling television: she didn’t even get her deserved WrestleMania main event. Now, she’s stuck in a rivalry with Piper Niven that WWE is not willing to give importance to either. Dakota Kai was on social media asking for a chance to show what she’s capable of doing, the Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill tag team run is good, but it doesn’t scratch a fraction of what it could truly do given how talented Bianca is, and how much presence Jade has. And don’t get me started on the way Shawn Michaels is booking NXT. WWE was in your face saying they saved women’s wrestling in the US and even did a whole PPV (that never had another edition) to tell you “Yeah, we’ll book women better,” but now people have realized the whole company is not willing to give women wrestlers a chance to shine as WRESTLERS. Because yeah, we can talk about mainstream appeal all you want, but do we need horny teenagers objectifying wrestlers again for a company to care about a whole division? How is it that with the depth of WWE’s division, we’re living in a reality where Tony Khan is doing a better job in booking them after years of not even caring about it?
