Bianca Belair & Naomi vs. Candice LeRae & Nia Jax

[4.0] "It wasn't exactly a good match, and you can't help but feel there were some missteps in their coordination. The only reason I kept watching was to find out who attacked Jade and to see when Tiffany would finally cash in her briefcase."

[6.0] "Quite surprised for good with this match. It's not amazing, not great, but at least it was enough decent considering Naomi and Nia Jax are in it and the story involving those four is plain random and uninteresting. I think she didn't have better matches than last year, but Bianca Belair had a much better year as an individual when it comes to her performance level. I thought that while she was really good, she always needed someone better to carry her into great matches, while now I believe completely the opposite. She is great on her own and is the one that carries other into decent showdowns. It doesn't matter if it's their own partners or their opponents, she just takes leadership of the match and makes it everything better and watchable. I feel like Candice LeRae doesn't really work well when matches are not high stakes. I see her quite dull in these kind of matches when she is a machine in big bouts. Naomi and Nia delivered a decent showdown here, thankfully they had Bianca right there to make things look good, but they didn't do as bad as usual and their time in the match was correct, but when it comes to Nia I think they're sacrificing her way too much as champion for the benefit of others, Liv at Crown Jewel, Team Rhea at WarGames, and now Tiffany Stratton, who is clearly being booked towards a Face turn that, while I won't judge until I see how it works, it's not how I want to see Tiff. Just because she is over with crowds it doesn't mean all heels have to turn into faces, and they already did that with Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley, now they're going with Tiff, who is just going to become as generic as a character when her whole personality is based on being a bratty daddy's girl bitch type of character, and it's looking more and more predictable that she's going to cash in on the first SmackDown of the year. Predictable isn't always bad, but in this case I don't like it being so warned about it and I prefer having Tiff as a heel. Now, when it comes to the Jade attacker storyline, I recently read about Naomi being clearly the one who did it as she wanted to insert herself into that position and I thought it was way too oversimplified to be true and that Bianca Belair had more "reasons" to be the one who attacked Jade, but after watching the post-match celebration here it made me believe Naomi might be the one. Bianca looked way too happy and relieved to have Naomi by her side while Naomi was all hyped for being champion, so it looks like those theories might be true. I believe a Bianca heel turn wasn't a very good idea because of what she means for little girls, but at least she had a more sustantious reason to betray Jade than Naomi (having to carrying her in their team for so long and having to share the spotlight with another woman when she was doing greater things on her own) and a Jade vs Bianca match is a waaaaay more marketable match. Let's see how everything unfolds (***)"

[5.0] "The weakest match of the show closes it out, unfortunately. Naomi getting the pin for the team was a good choice, in my opinion, as it further solidifies her place as 1/2 of the champions, for now. I'm still thinking it's her that attacked Jade Cargill currently."

[6.0] "This was an average tag team match. Naomi and Bianca had a good chemistry and maybe this could lead to some interesting stories."

[4.0] "This really was not an amazing match... It felt very slow and like there were no stakes even though it was a title match. I feel like Candice put up the best performance here and it still wasn't very good. Nia got cut open at some point and I still can't even see where. She did move out of the way INSANELY fast when Naomi was trying to hit the split legged moonsault which was very impressive. There is no point in going to watch this match over again unless you want to see a very boring match at that."

[7.0] "On one hand we have two kind of makeshift teams but this was about storytelling and there's a good reason for both of these teams to tag together. The match itself was the same, it wasn't a five star anything but they told the story they needed to tell and that's more important."

[3.0] "The tag match was decent but too long. Having a substitute for the Women's Tag Team Titles is a cool idea, but the match exists mainly to further push Tiff's face turn, which is starting to drag on for way too long."

[6.0] "Good match. Pretty competitive. Good combinations and exchanges. Some good tandem offense by both teams."

[5.0] "A fine main event to give Bianca and Naomi a win while Naomi fills in for Jade. Tiffany getting involved added more to the rift among her/Nia/Candice."

[1.0] "Bad matchup. Not sure what happened but none of the four put in their best performances. Bianca was alright but even she seemed a little off. So many botches ruining important parts of the match like the hot tag. Nia cut herself open somehow. Just no reason to watch this match"

[5.0] "OK main event, but a title change wasn't likely given Nia Jax has the WWE Women's Title. Naomi filled in for the injured Jade Cargill, it remains to be seen if she was the one who took Cargill out. Some even think it may have been Bianca Belair herself."