Retired professional wrestler and a former WWE 24/7 champion Corey Graves who is also a former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion recently talked about Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah winning the WWE Women’s Tag Team championships and discussed the backlash of the fans about this decision.
The WWE women’s Tag Team championships got vacated after the previous champions Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out of WWE. The promotion announced a tournament to Crown the new champions but there was no mention of anything since for quite a long time. At a point It looked like that WWE is least bothered about the Women’s Tag Team Championship and it is going to get defunct soon.
Corey Graves Discusses Raquel Rodriguez And Aliyah Winning Women’s Tag Team Titles
A lot of fans were frustrated with WWE remaining careless about the Women’s Tag Team championships. But fortunately the championships got resurrected after Mr McMahon announced his retirement and Triple H became the Head of Creative of WWE. He organised an eight women Tag Team tournament to Crown the new Women’s Tag Team champions.
In the finals of the tournament, the team of Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah defeated The Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky) to win the titles. It was a shocking decision, everybody was expecting to see Damage CTRL walking out with the golds. Most of the fans could not take Rodriguez and Aliyah as the champion and they started criticizing it. Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah dropped the title to the Damage CRTL recently and Raquel Rodriguez started traming up with Shotzi so her team team with Aliyah looks done for good.
Corey Graves who is also a former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion recently spoke on After The Bell where he talked about Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah winning the WWE Women’s Tag Team championships and discussed the backlash of the fans about this decision. He said;
“Full disclosure for everybody listening. We are recording this Tuesday morning because I have to travel to Wales. I will be in the U.K.by the time this drops, so forgive me if there’s been new developments or new information that’s come out in the wake of the controversy surrounding the WWE Women’s tag team titles.
“But Aliyah and Raquel Rodriguez shocked everybody. The response from the live crowd was almost odd because people had their jaws on the floor. Nobody knew it was coming, nobody expected it, and this is really, really wild.”
“But in the immediate wake Monday night, I got back home and I’m scrolling through Twitter, and it’s still going on today this morning, everybody’s talking about the controversy at the end of that matchup. I started to say something on the air, because like you guys at home who are watching on television, I watch a monitor in front of me.
“We do this so we can best describe what the fans at home are seeing rather than what we can see in the arena, even though we have the best seats in the house five feet from the ring. I saw the same things you guys did. I was as confused as anybody in the arena or watching at home when Aliyah scored that final pinfall.”
“What got me was the camera cut to Dakota Kai, who appeared to be saying, and I’m not a master lip reader but I’m pretty good at it, said, ‘I wasn’t legal.’ She was adamant, Dakota was, that she was not legal, in which case, the match should continue. The match should not end. The illegal competitor was pinned. That does not end the match under normal circumstances.
“I don’t know however, because I was watching just like everybody at home, all of the action. There were bodies flying everywhere. There were moves happening. There were tags in and out and competitors getting in the ring and thrown out. There was pure chaos. So it’s easy to believe that something got lost in the shuffle. Dakota said she wasn’t legal. I almost called it out on Raw.
“I started to say it and then I went, you know what? I’m not sure. I’m not 100% certain that what I saw was accurate, so I’d rather not say anything, and I don’t want to spoil the moment for Raquel and Aliyah who just had the biggest victory of their careers. So I understand why a lot of people are confused. Again, this is Tuesday morning. There’s not a lot of clarity regarding the actual outcome other than we do know that officially, Raquel and Aliyah are the Women’s Tag Team Champions.”
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