The latest episode of SmackDown featured several matches. One of them was a title unification match for the Women’s Tag Team titles. Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler took on NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn for both titles. The former UFC fighters defeated the NXT Champions. However, the fans are not happy with the decision and expressed their disappointment.
Fyre and Dawn were drafted to SmackDown in the 2023 WWE Draft as a main roster call-up. They debuted on SmackDown with their NXT titles and directly confronted Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler. The two teams faced off against each other in an episode of SmackDown. As a result, a title unification match was announced for an upcoming episode of SmackDown.
The teams clashed on the latest episode of SmackDown for the title unification match. However, after a decent match, Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler emerged victorious. They became the unified Women’s Tag Team Champions. However, the fans criticized WWE’s decision. They wanted the two young talents to shine on the main roster.
Fans believe that it was pointless for Fyre and Dawn to come up to SmackDown with their titles only to lose them to Rousey and Baszler. The former NXT superstars have impressed the WWE Universe in the Yellow Brand. However, their main roster run started on a bad note as they faced defeat and lost their titles as well.
After the match, Raquel Rodriguez came down to the ring and asked for a match for the titles that she never lost. She was joined by a returning Liv Morgan, who was her partner before she got injured recently. It looks like this will be the next feud for the new champions moving forward. On the other hand, fans have been expressing their resentment for making the former NXT stars lose on SmackDown.
Fans react to WWE’s decision to make Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn lose on SmackDown
As soon as Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler defeated Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn, fans started showing their disapproval on the internet. The NXT Champions were the favorites to win the match. According to the fans, it does not make any sense to call up the young champions from NXT and have them lose in their main roster run.
Dude I was fucking pissed. Liv and Raquel’s post match challenge made these two feel irrelevant. I hate it.
— Irregular Hunter Dash @ AX SOON (@DashJoestar96_) June 24, 2023An do we actually believe the titles will travel through nxt ? I really doubt it .
— OU💭 This was A 🐰 (@FlexChupacabra) June 24, 2023I turned off SD after that. I'd rather watch the guide channel over watching the rest of SmackDown.
— Jeremy Baltimore – Sad Teddy Bear Potato (@RealJeremyBmore) June 24, 2023Not surprising, but sad that nxt is gonna have less opportunities for women while they brought over the heritage cup so there’s even more for the men to fight over
— Danita Jo (@danielwwelch) June 24, 2023I’m so glad I skipped smackdown it was the right move 😭☠️
— ✧OakJavi✧ 🇲🇽 (@TownBizz_Javi) June 24, 2023You know Vince would have a heart attack if he learned two ppl from nxt won and beat Ronda lol 😂
— nova (rawr) (@adknovaa) June 24, 2023Wouldn’t be surprised if these 2 became jobbers or none existent after losing the titles was all setup to make them stars only for Vince to say nope not on my watch
— BulleeHD (@Bully_Lee) June 24, 2023After the match, it was announced on commentary that the title unification also meant that the titles would be defended on all three brands. Previous reports have also indicated that WWE was planning to upgrade NXT to the same level as Raw and SmackDown. It seems that the announcement is a step in the same direction.
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