WOW announces tournament to crown tag team champions

WOW-Women of Wrestling is moving to Saturday night and season 2 is kicking off with a tournament to decide the new WOW Tag Team Champions.

The first season of WOW-Women of Wrestling showed exactly why they should be taken seriously and season 2 is promising more of the same. On the official WOW Twitter page it was announced that a single elimination tournament would take place to decide the inaugural WOW Tag Team Champions. And how can you not love those purple belts!

https://twitter.com/wowsuperheroes/status/1138849008237989889

It’s been a long time since the wrestling world has seen women’s tag team titles at all, and now there’s at least two brands with them. The WWE crowned new Women’s Tag Team Champions at their Elimination Chamber event in early 2019. It took them 30 years to bring the women’s tag titles back after they were deactivated in 1989. But ever since the Boss n’ Hug Connection of Sasha Banks and Bayley lost the titles to the IIconics at WrestleMania 35, there’s been little to no use of them.

In the weeks leading up to the return of the WWE Women’s Tag Titles there were strong teams on display each jockeying for a position to get their hands on the gold. The Riott Squad, Fire and Desire, Fabulous Glow and Tamina and Nia Jax were all in the thick of the hunt. Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix even came out of retirement to tag with Natalya and reform the Divas of Doom just for a shot at the titles.

We had a fleeting look at the Kabuki Warriors of Asuka and Kairi Sane led by Paige, but they seemed to have vanished. In fact, all of the teams besides the IIconics have scattered to the four winds. The women’s tag scene in WWE ended before it even had a fair chance.

Hopefully the WOW women’s tag team champions will actually wrestle and defend their belts on a regular basis. The brand has a great crop of talent including the likes of Santana Garrett, Jungle Grrrl and the reigning WOW Women’s Champion Tessa Blanchard.

Bringing in women’s tag titles in an all-women’s brand makes perfect sense. WOW has done a good job already of developing a tag team division and there’s plenty of options for team-ups woven into the fabric of what WOW is all about. In WOW, the competitors are called “Superheroes” and these ladies try every match to live up to that moniker. WOW is part pageantry, part hard-hitting action and all entertainment.

You can catch season 2 of WOW-Women of Wrestling every Saturday night Starting on July 13 on AXSTV.