Welcome to this week’s NXT review! We’re in for some explosive action as Asuka defends her title on a weekly episode, in what feels like ages! Before we get to the Triple Threat Elimination match, however, a video package hyping Ember Moon‘s return is showcased!: Ember faces off against Peyton Royce next week! After the … Read more
History will be made at this year’s Money in the Bank PPV event as the SmackDown Women’s Division will take part in the first ever Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match. To help hype up the historic match Natalya, one of the five participants, spoke with ESPN where discussed the importance behind the Women’s … Read more
Ever since the official announcement of WWE’s Women’s Tournament, later named the Mae Young Classic, women wrestling fans have waited and speculated which of their favorite wrestlers would participate in the 32 woman tournament. A report from PWInsider has shed some light on some of the names that will partake in the tournament: Bianca Blair … Read more
Former Team B.A.D. members square off tonight as Naomi and Tamina make their way to the ring for a match. However, before things can kick off, the Ravishing Russian Lana makes her way to ringside… to the tune of “we want Rusev” chants. Ouch. The match quickly follows and begins at a particularly slow pace. There … Read more
Ruby Riot recently spoke with Kayla Braxton on Facebook Live to discuss the impact the Mae Young Classic will have on women’s wrestling and WWE as a whole. During the interview she called the 32-woman tournament “empowering.” “A couple years ago, the thought of there being a full tournament just for the Women’s division was basically … Read more
After nearly a year out of action due to injury, WWE Superstar Paige is reportedly close to making her long awaited in-ring return. https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/874684344748605440 The former two-time Divas Champion took to Twitter to announce she was receiving the results of her last set of x-rays and a follow-up report from PWInsider adds that if everything … Read more
Tonight on the final SmackDown before Sunday’s Money in the Bank PPV event, Charlotte Flair squares off with Natalya. Read WWE.com‘s preview to tonight’s show below: “With the historic Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match drawing near, Charlotte Flair and Natalya will square off in singles competition tonight on SmackDown LIVE. There is no … Read more
via GIPHY The RAW division has seen its ups and down lately and last week seemed to dawn a new start. Fresh challengers took to the stage and the battle ground was still a bit foggy following Extreme Rules. One thing was clear though, that Nia Jax is still gunning for her title shot. How … Read more
After last week’s Raw Women’s Title match between Nia Jax and the champion Alexa Bliss ended in disqualification, what will happen on tonight’s show? Read WWE.com‘s preview below: “Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss promised Nia Jax a title opportunity, and Raw General Manager Kurt Angle ensured that the self-proclaimed ‘Goddess of WWE’ honored her word. … Read more
Three-time Raw Women’s Champion Sasha Banks was recently interviewed by the Wrestling News Source Podcast where she discussed her chemistry with Bayley dating back to their NXT days, advice for upcoming wrestling hopefuls and the much anticipated Mae Young Classic. Highlights and transcript of the interview (courtesy of WrestleZone) below. Her chemistry with Bayley: “It was … Read more
When Total Divas returns for their seventh season, Renee Young won’t be among the cast. Renee broke the news that she was dropped from the show on Twitter in response to a fan: Nope I am not, but the new cast will crush it!! https://t.co/nSJu5tX7cO — Renee Paquette (@ReneePaquette) June 11, 2017 Renee joined the … Read more
Raw Superstar Emma has been out of action since May after she suffered a shoulder injury during live house show at Liverpool, England as part of WWE’s European tour. It was previously reported that Emma was expected to make her return mid-June and during a live WWE house show last night in Jackson, Mississippi Emma … Read more
According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, two Raw Superstars are joining the cast of Total Divas! The site has learned Alexa Bliss and Nia Jax were recently added to the cast of season seven and filming is now set to begin in a few weeks. It was previously reported that Eva Marie was bowing out of the spotlight … Read more
Welcome to this week’s NXT review! We’re back after a week off without any women’s action last week. Let’s dive into it. We start off with action between newcomer Sarah Logan, formally known as Crazy Mary Dobson, and one half of the Iconic Duo, Peyton Royce! Despite absolutely no matches last week, Billie Kay and … Read more
Rumors were swirling last week that Naomi could possibly be getting a spin-off reality show after reports that cameras followed her and her husband Jimmy Uso and his brother Jey Uso in Hawaii last week. In an interview with Chuck Carroll of CSB Sports, Naomi sheds some light on the rumors, confirms her return for … Read more
Hola SmackDown fans and welcome to this week’s SmackDown Redux! It’s Josue once again and I’ll be covering SmackDown for Abir this week and my what an eventful SmackDown it was! There was the long awaited debut of Lana, the unveiling of the Women’s Money in the Bank briefcase (don’t worry guys, it isn’t pink!), … Read more
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On top of the historic Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match, a second Women’s match has been added to the upcoming PPV event. As seen on tonight’s episode of SmackDown, Lana made her debut to the blue brand and quickly picked a fight with the SmackDown Women’s Champion Naomi, costing her the win during … Read more
After nearly two months of dancing vignettes, Lana made her official SmackDown debut on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. With great RISK, comes great REWARD! @ShaneMcMahon has revealed the FIRST-EVER WOMEN'S #MITB briefcase!!! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/9YjKJGjTgO — WWE (@WWE) June 7, 2017 During the show’s opening segment, SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon gathered Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, … Read more
If you read my review of Extreme Rules last night, then you’d know that I’m not exactly in high hopes with the state of the RAW women’s division. The writers of RAW needed to step it up, so let’s see if they managed to in this week’s RAW Redux! #RAW GM @RealKurtAngle had no intention … Read more
As it was previously reported, the WWE are set to begin tapings for their Mae Young Classic tournament on July 13th and 14th at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida with a special live finale taking place at the end of summer. According to a new report from PWInsider, the WWE will be hosting a … Read more
Tonight on SmackDown Live, SmackDown Women’s Champion Naomi teams up with Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch to take on the Welcoming Committee team of Natalya, Carmella and Tamina. This one week after it was announced that he SmackDown Women’s Division would participate in the first ever Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match. Read WWE.com‘s … Read more
Last night at Extreme Rules, Alexa Bliss successfully retained her Raw Women’s Title against Bayley in a Kendo on a Stick match. What is next for the champion? Read WWE.com‘s preview to tonight’s show below: Even though Bayley embraced her extreme side in last night’s Kendo Stick on a Pole Match, Alexa Bliss ruthlessly defended … Read more
According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, Thea Trinidad has signed a WWE deal and will begin training at the Performance Center. The report adds that Thea is part of a group of other wrestling stars who have also signed deals with the WWE that include former Impact Wrestling star Gunner, female independent wrestlers Evie and Nixon Newell, … Read more
via GIPHY Extreme Rules is supposed to be an homage to the days of ECW. During this ‘Women’s Evolution’ era, it was only right that the women of RAW got a chance to get extreme too! Sure it wasn’t a hardcore match… or ladders match… or tables match, but hey there’s a kendo stick in … Read more
Sonya Deville, real name Daria Berenato, burst on the scene as a competitor on Tough Enough. Now she’s transforming herself into the ultimate athlete to differentiate herself in NXT. WWE.com recently interviewed Sonya about her evolution as a MMA fighter turned wrestler, her humble beginnings, and what she hopes fans at NXT understand about her. On how much … Read more