SmackDown’s GM Nick Aldis, a man who looks like he pays extra for premium tea and still ends up spilling it, just dropped a bombshell so big it might get its own pyro at WrestleMania 41.
After a chinwag with Raw’s walking HR violation Adam Pearce, Aldis announced a Women’s Tag Team Gauntlet Match for next week. The prize? A one-way ticket to suplex city (population: Raquel Rodriguez’s shoulders) at WrestleMania 41, where the winning team will challenge Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, your reigning, three-timin’, possibly-coffee-deprived Women’s Tag Champs.
👉 Who’s in the gauntlet match? We don’t know. WWE hasn’t told us. Which means the tag division is either a surprise party or a complete group project someone forgot to do.
💫 In case you missed it (because, let’s face it, most people did), Liv and Raquel won their third set of shiny belts on February 25 on RAW, defeating Bianca Belair and Naomi—both of whom have enough charisma to sell air to a balloon. Since then? Crickets. The titles have been defended as often as a gym membership in January—zero times. Their combined first two reigns were a stunning 55 days, which is just long enough to grow a beard of disappointment.
📜 And let’s not forget history, folks! This will be the first defense of the Women’s Tag Titles at WrestleMania since WM38, when Naomi and Sasha Banks handed out L’s like Oprah handing out cars. Since then? The tag titles have been treated like the office plant—technically there, rarely watered.
So who’s stepping up to challenge the queens of we-got-these-titles-again? Tune in next week for a match with more surprises than a WWE draft and more tag teams than creative probably remembers exist.