Vince McMahon announced on the Christmas Eve edition of Monday Night RAW that the company will be introducing WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships in 2019.
For most of 2018, it was rumoured that the women’s tag team titles would be unveiled. However, one thing led to another and the announcement of the titles kept getting delayed.
According to a report from Belt Fan Dan, WWE originally planned for the women’s tag titles to be introduced around SummerSlam last year, with Bayley and Sasha Banks rumored to have been the first champions.
WWE did not like the response that the leaked images of the titles got, so they dropped their initial plans. Belt Fan Dan’s report said:
“The old female Penny Style tags were delivered early Summer like I reported. WWE did not like the final product nor the reaction to the leak.
Original plan was the Bayley/Sasha feud was to lead to them winning the womens tags around SummerSlam. Then plans changed and reworked with Evolution in mind, then scrapped.
New designed belts were ordered and as seen, Wildcat did them as well. I was not told when to expect them, but Sasha/Bayley are still supposed to be heavily involved.
This is not the first time WWE has had new belts made only to scrap them. Several years ago, they had a new ECW belt made with a diamond plate texture main plate and chain link side plates with removable nameplates. This belt was never used because apparently CM Punk did not like it. It resides today in the best chest at the WWE warehouse.”
Here is Belt Fan Dan’s tweet below.
Thanks to @TheTopBananaDW and @HazardF5 for sending me these caps before original post was deleted. I asked around a little and this is what I was told: pic.twitter.com/mzVZHTyOht
— Dan Beltzer (@BeltFanDan) January 4, 2019
