Jade Cargill’s first few months on the WWE main roster have been mostly a well-reserved success.
Her exciting pumpkins ensured she didn’t get overexposed too soon and made her feel like a force of nature. The six-woman match at WrestleMania 40 helped Cargill, Bianca Belair and Naomi look like superheroes that night. And her association with ‘The EST of WWE’ has finally made the Women’s Tag Team Championships feel like a prize worth fighting for.
However, despite all the justifiable hype surrounding the star, secretly not everything has been perfect.
The former AEW star is the type of performer who possesses a superstar aura that is incredibly difficult to create, but very easy to break with some stupid booking decisions. And suffering her first loss in WWE against Nia Jax in the Queen of the Ring tournament recently was a move that simply didn’t need to be made.
Now, it was only a DQ ‘L’, but it still robbed her of an undefeated streak in singles that would have been better broken by her competitive teammate and no doubt future rival, Belair. Possibly even in the next round of the tournament.
A vastly improved Nia Jax wasn’t a terrible choice as eventual Queen by any means, and she’ll be a decent challenger at SummerSlam for whoever holds the belt.
But including Cargill in this type of tournament and simply dropping her via disqualification in the quarterfinals didn’t really do much for Jade or Nia, and it’s an outcome that could have been avoided by not allowing the current title holders into the tournament. . tournament or commit to a tag team battle of champions mid-tournament.
