We are edging closer to WWE Crown Jewel 2026, a show where the two champions from each of WWE's brands will go one-on-one in special interpromotional matches, but when it comes to the women's division, it really has been a slog of a build up.

The opening match of the October 30 episode of "WWE SmackDown" saw Chelsea Green defend the WWE Women's Championship against Nikki Bella in a match that was not very good. We could all kind of see this coming as the feud between Green and Bella has been dull to say the least — we get it ladies, you want to bring some of that "Divas" flare back to WWE, but for the love of everything that is good and pure, don't bring the Divas Era wrestling back, it stunk.

That is what this match did, it stunk. It was slow, it was boring, it was sloppy in all the wrong ways. Sometimes wrestling can actually look better when it's rough around the edges, but when it's between two women who have little to no chemistry together it just becomes rough to watch. It almost looked AI-generated at times and the world rejoiced when it was over. However, this portion of the show wasn't over as Liv Morgan came out to run down her Crown Jewel opponent, and it all just kept going downhill.

Morgan, who isn't exactly the most popular champion in WWE right now, repeatedly beat the drum of Green being a fluke champion, which is an angle that is just so played out right now that if you had a hearing aid while Morgan was talking, I wouldn't be surprised if you just turned it off. Then Tiffany Stratton showed up, and I'm not even kidding when I say this, teased cashing in her Money in the Bank contract for a third consecutive show and still didn't do it.

We talked about this on Monday after "WWE Raw" — it's okay to tease it every once in a while, but doing it on back-to-back shows just feels weird. Now it's happened on back-to-back-to-back shows, and that isn't weird, that's just stupid. if she tries to cash in on Monday again, just be prepared for months of cash-in teases that get worse and worse by the week, to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if Stratton tried to cash in her contract to try and win the WWE Women's Crown Jewel Championship just for the surprise factor.

Put it like this — the sooner we can get past Green vs. Morgan, and the sooner Stratton cashes in her contract, the better the WWE women's division will be heading into the new year.

Written by Sam Palmer