Okay, so I decided I wanted to really keep track of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions for a while. It sounds simple, right? Like, just follow who has the belts. But man, it turned into its own little project.
I remember when they first brought the titles back, I was genuinely excited. Thought it would really boost the women’s division, give more people screen time. And for a bit, it really felt like that. My first step was just jotting down the winners in a notebook whenever they changed hands. Easy peasy.
Getting Started
So, I grabbed an old notepad. Every time new champs were crowned, I’d write down:
- The team name (if they had one)
- The wrestlers’ names
- The date they won
- Who they beat
Felt pretty organized at the start. I caught the first few changes live, or at least saw the results pretty quickly online the next day. It was kind of fun, like collecting stats or something.
Things Got Messy
Then, well, things started getting a bit chaotic. Sometimes teams would break up right after losing the belts, or even while holding them! And keeping track of why they lost them or got split up became part of the game. Was it a storyline? Did someone get injured? That notebook started having a lot more scribbled notes in the margins.
Then came the vacancies. Oh boy. Titles getting vacated throws a wrench in any tracking project. Suddenly there’s a gap. Do I write ‘Vacant’? Do I note the reason? I decided I had to note the reason, otherwise, it just looked like I missed a week.
There was this one period, felt like the titles were changing hands super fast, or bouncing between shows. I was watching Raw, then SmackDown, sometimes even NXT when they floated around there. Keeping the timeline straight in my notebook took real effort. I’d sometimes have to go back and check results from a few shows just to be sure I had the order right.
Keeping It Going (Sort Of)
I tried to keep it up diligently for maybe a year or so? It was interesting to see the patterns. Some teams had really short reigns, others held them for a decent stretch. Seeing teams form just to chase the belts and then vanish was… well, it was a thing that happened.
Honestly, after a while, my enthusiasm kinda dipped. Not because of the wrestlers, loved seeing them compete. It just felt like sometimes the belts got lost in the shuffle. My notebook entries became less detailed. Sometimes I’d miss a change and have to fill it in weeks later.
So, yeah, that was my little experiment. Started as a simple way to follow along, ended up being a slightly confusing, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately interesting look at how these things work behind the scenes, or at least how they feel from the outside looking in. My notebook’s probably still around here somewhere, a messy record of that whole phase.
