Tiffany Stratton’s WWE Women’s Championship win at Crown Jewel apparently wasn’t just about giving her another title run. WWE had a much bigger character change in mind after deciding her previous direction wasn’t working the way they hoped.
During a Q&A session, WrestleVotes was asked why Stratton defeated Chelsea Green after cashing in her Money in the Bank contract at Crown Jewel. According to WrestleVotes, WWE wanted to turn Stratton heel again and see whether she could find more success in that role after her babyface run failed to turn her into the level of star the company envisioned.
“That’s the direction they wanted to go down once again — make Tiffany Stratton a heel and see if it works better than this babyface run. They thought they could make her a megastar, and it didn’t happen.”
That certainly explains the way WWE handled Stratton’s cash-in. Chelsea had just defeated Liv Morgan to win the Women’s Crown Jewel Championship and was celebrating one of the biggest moments of her career when everything started falling apart.
Stratton initially looked like she was coming to Green’s rescue amid the chaos involving Morgan, Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez. Green even helped Stratton deal with Perez and Rodriguez before discovering that Tiffy wasn’t actually there to save her. Stratton cashed in her Money in the Bank contract on the exhausted Green, hit the Prettiest Moonsault Ever and walked out of Riyadh as the new WWE Women’s Champion.
So WWE is giving the Tiffany Stratton experiment another shot from the other side of the fence. The company hoped her babyface run would turn her into a “megastar,” and when that didn’t happen, the decision was made to put the championship on her and see whether heel Tiffy can get them there instead.
Do you think Tiffany Stratton works better as a heel than a babyface, and could this run finally take her to the level WWE reportedly wants? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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