Chelsea Green WrestleMania Absence Would Show Women's Division Issues Amid WWE Rumors

The WrestleMania 41 match card is jam-packed with Superstars and champions but there is one noticeable omission: Women's United States champion Chelsea Green. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select reported that is not likely to change, either.

He wrote, "Fightful inquired with WWE sources regarding creative plans for the title or Green for Mania, and were told that as of late last week, she was not scheduled for the show. We’re told there had been a couple of pitches for her to host the show, but as of this past weekend, there was nothing there." 

If it does not change, it highlights the continued issues within the WWE women's division.

First, there are 13 matches on the WrestleMania card as it currently sits, 14 if you count whatever Randy Orton will be up to.

Of those matches, only four represent the women's division. How there are that few of spots on the card when the women's division has headlined episodes of Raw and SmackDown and had two new championships created for it remains baffling.

It is also indicative of there being no real plans for anyone beyond the handful of competitors regularly featured on television. Beyond Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan, Bianca Belair, Iyo Sky, Bayley, and one or two others, there is rarely a cohesive story in place for anyone else.

With so many women across both Raw and SmackDown, there should never be an instance where a champion, let alone someone who has made the most of every opportunity she has received like Green has, should be left off the most important card of the year.

Especially when there is essentially nine hours of wrestling across two nights.

Green's husband Matt Cardona, formerly Zack Ryder during his run with WWE, thinks so too.

That Green is a champion makes it that much worse in that there was more than enough time for WWE officials to find an opponent for her and put together a story for them leading into the show.

When you consider how often the champion has taken sub-par creative and turned it into gold, leading to the incredibly entertaining work she has done with Piper Niven and Alba Fyre since becoming champion, the disappointment over her lack of a spot on the WrestleMania card becomes more apparent.

There are countless competitors for whom an argument could be made that they should not be missing out on the exposure, history, and payday that comes with a spot on the WrestleMania card but considering how prominently featured Green has been, and the media work she has done for WWE in recent months, there are few with a bigger gripe.

Of course, she could still pop up in a backstage segment or in a quick bit in front of the live audience, but it does not carry the same weight as a meaningful match with her championship on the line.

The women's division has been done dirty again, with the lack of creative effort that has gone into it obvious in both Green's absence and the fact that Bayley and Lyra Valkria were thrown together to challenge for the women's tag team titles instead of an actual, established tandem serving as the greatest examples of the need for Triple H's squad to do better.

None have been done dirtier than Green, who has shown up, shown out, entertained, and won titles, all to be sitting on the sidelines on wrestling's biggest night.