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#2 Intergender matches are back, and that’s a good thing
Outside of WWE, it feels like there have been more intergender matches over the last couple of years than ever before, with the likes of Joey Ryan and James Ellsworth regularly facing female competitors at independent shows.
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With Ellsworth now back in WWE, the company has swiftly booked him in a match against a woman, Asuka, for next week’s episode of SmackDown Live – something that hasn’t happened one-on-one since “The Chinless Wonder” faced Becky Lynch in one of 2017’s most entertaining TV matches.
WWE has a history of getting intergender wrestling horribly wrong, such as when Umaga attacked someone half his size in Maria Kanellis, but when Ellsworth – a harmless comedy character – faces somebody the calibre of Asuka, this match feels like the next natural step to advance the Carmella storyline.
