Add as a preferred source on Google Liv Morgan will not defend the Women’s World Championship for the second straight premium live event, and that may be the clearest sign yet that WWE still does not understand the size of the problem it has on its hands.
The issue, however, is not just the lack of title defenses. That would already be bad enough on its own. The real problem is that Liv simply has not felt like Raw’s top women’s champion.
Since defeating Stephanie Vaquer at WrestleMania 42 to regain the Women’s World Championship, Liv has appeared on programming, but almost always around side stories, with the title rarely feeling like the center of the division.
That is a major problem, especially when this is supposed to be a world championship.
When Becky Lynch was champion, even during stretches where things felt more worn down, there was still a sense that the division ran through her. When Rhea Ripley was on top, the title felt like a natural extension of her dominance. With Liv right now, the feeling is different.
And that is not her fault. Liv Morgan has charisma, has presence, and came out of WrestleMania 42 in a position that could have been used much better. Her win over Vaquer should have been the starting point for a more aggressive title reign.
Instead, WWE seems to be treating her like someone carrying a belt while other stories happen around her.
Clash in Italy is a good example. The event is being presented as a huge show, with Roman Reigns vs. Jacob Fatu, Cody Rhodes vs. Gunther, and Rhea Ripley and Jade Cargill involved in the WWE Women’s Championship picture. But a match for Liv’s title will not be happening.
That is the kind of mistake that weakens a champion without needing a loss. Little by little, the audience stops seeing the title as something important. Then, when WWE finally tries to create a strong rivalry, it has to make up lost ground because the championship has already spent weeks feeling secondary.
Liv does not need to defend the title every week. No champion does. But she does need to feel like a champion every week.
So far, that has not happened.
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WWE still has time to correct course, especially if the plan is to go back to Stephanie Vaquer, IYO SKY, or someone else as the next challenger. But the longer this goes on, the harder it becomes to sell this title reign as something that matters.