3 ways WWE made the women's revolution a smoldering pile of rubble in 2018 (and what to do about it)

#2 The wrong pushes (red version)

I knew as soon as the angle started in February that turning Nia Jax babyface and making her the Raw Women's Champion was going to be a disaster.

In a feud with Alexa Bliss which quickly became yet another retread of Mean Girls, but with some corporate virtue signaling sprinkled on top, Nia Jax played the aggrieved bullying victim.

Unfortunately, Nia Jax just isn't very good at anything in this profession, and it was hard to sympathize with her after a few weeks.

We were then treated to two overlong, sloppy matches at WrestleMania and Backlash. It was after the latter that Nia Jax's heat was gone for good as she cut one of the worst promos of the modern era, combining horrid delivery with a script that took WWE's cynical virtue signaling from implied to unmistakable.

From there, Nia's reign was only good for cooling off Ronda Rousey again, at least until their match. Nia went from the bullied to the bully in little more than a month, revealing WWE's laughable commitment to continuity in the process. Alexa Bliss was proven right, and it isn't too surprising that she cashed in to end the pointless reign.

Of course, that doesn't solve much, because it means we'll have to go through yet another month of the Bliss vs. Jax feud.

And while Alexa Bliss will serve as an excellent foil to Ronda Rousey, it's imperative that the latter squashes her like a bug at SummerSlam.

There's no guarantee of that though, since Alexa Bliss is the most overpushed woman on the roster by far, and was a primary reason why 2017 was a disappointing year for the women's division.

Meanwhile, it's painfully ironic that Sasha Banks and Bayley, two of the women chiefly responsible for whatever "change" occurred in the first place, are meandering in a feud that WWE won't take off the ground, and thus providing us with no reason to care about either of them. At the same time, talented women like Ember Moon and Ruby Riott are afterthoughts.