On the road to WrestleMania 39, Lita made her return to the ring and she ended up teaming with Becky Lynch. Together they managed to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles when they defeated Damage CTRL. Recently on Raw, Trish Stratus stepped in to take Lita’s place in a WWE Women’s Tag Team Title match after Lita was mysteriously attacked backstage. Stratus & Becky Lynch ended up losing the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles to Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez, and then Trish Stratus turned on Becky Lynch after the match.
Corey Graves recently addressed the status of the women’s tag team division on the After The Bell podcast, and he noted that he hopes Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez can help to solidify a division that he believes has never been strong.
“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.”
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