2023 has been a mixed bag for Liv Morgan within the WWE Universe; on one hand, she became a champion twice over thanks to her fruitful tag team with Raquel Rodriguez, defeating the pairing of Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus and then the tandem of Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey thanks in no small part to the former turning on the latter, but unfortunately for Ms. “Watch Me,” the injury bug has proven undefeated, leaving her on the shelf on multiple occasions to form a very uneven resume.

And yet, while Morgan recovers away from the promotion, working on film projects in the process, her return may prove sooner than some fans may expect, as, according to her tag team partner, her recovery should bring her back “sooner rather than later.”

“Yeah, I’ve talked to Liv. She’s doing great. She’s really recovering well,” Raquel Rodriguez told The Dallas Mornign News. “She’s in very good spirits, and of course, she’s very, very anxious to come back. I don’t have a specific date of when she’ll be back. We’re all waiting for her. I know, I miss her terribly. So I’m very excited for that. But I feel like time has been flying, and she’s just been on it, on her recovery. So I would assume she’d be back sooner rather than later, and probably before any of us can really imagine.”

While Rodriguez hasn't been totally lost as a solo act, as she has wrestled with Rhea Ripley twice in Morgan's absence, once at WWE Payback in a marathon of a match and again on Monday Night RAW with the WWE Women's World Championship on the line, in the end, the former NXT Champion has been largely spinning her wheels without her partner, with no new titles added to her war chest. With the current Undisputed WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, Chelsea Green and Piper Niven, often seen, not heard from, with exactly zero title defenses since linking up back in August, the return of Morgan could signal a third title reign for Morgan and Rodriguez and some legitimacy being restored to the titles.

Raquel Rodriguez weighs in on the Women's Tag Team Title curse.

Elsewhere in her conversation with The Dallas Morning News, Raquel Rodriguez was asked about the Undisputed WWE Women's Tag Team Championship belts and whether or not they are cursed, considering the injuries suffered by everyone from Liv Morgan to Sonya DeVille.

Though Rodriguez didn't go through the specifics of the curse, which is said to have been started by the dynamic duo of Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn, aka the Unholy Union, she did recount her desire to elevate the titles to new heights alongside Morgan and how the curse may or may not be affecting that.

“[Laughs] Oh my gosh. You know, I don’t like to be too superstitious. But yeah, I do. I do think there is a little bit of a curse on the women’s tag team division. And you know, Liv [Morgan] and I, from the very beginning when we started tagging together, we told each other that this was something we wanted to build up. We wanted to make the women’s tag team titles something as important. They should be on the same level, on the same pedestal as the World Women’s Championship, as any championship really on the WWE roster, even the men’s ones. And that’s the level that we wanted to elevate them to,” Rodriguez noted to The Dallas Morning News.

“But because of this curse, you know, it’s just really been affecting team after team after team. So I’m kind of relieved that right now I’m not in that picture at the moment, even though I miss my buddy Liv. But at the same time, I feel for Chelsea [Green], I feel for Piper [Niven] and I just hope that they’re able to be the champions that I know they want to be representing those titles.”

When WWE decided to do a unification match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships and the NXT Tag Team Champions, many fans assumed that Paul “Triple H” Levesque had something big in mind, something like sending Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler down to NXT for an extended run, or for the belts to be used to help get more female performers on television each week. Instead, Rousey and Baszler wrestled just one more match with the titles on the line and ultimately dropped them to Morgan and Rodriguez at Money in the Bank. While Green and Niven did just show up on NXT to hint at a new match, in the end, it's impossible to know what will happen next, especially with a pair of cursed titles on the line.