The yearly Money in the Bank event is rapidly approaching and will be in front of a live audience on Sunday, July 18. WWE is gearing up for its women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match and there will be eight women involved in the high-risk, high-reward style atmosphere. There have only been four women … Read more
Zelina Vega is back!! It was first reported mid-May that Thea Trinidad, known as Zelina Vega in WWE, was possibly returning to the company. She was released in November after breaching WWE’s policy of being on third-party platforms. Now she is back and is not only on the SmackDown brand but is in the upcoming … Read more
On tonight’s SmackDown, WWE Authority Sonya Deville made her way to the ring and announced the first woman from the blue brand that will be in this year’s Money in the Bank. We know that Asuka, Naomi, Alexa Bliss, and Nikki Cross will represent RAW after they all qualified on Monday. Deville reveals that the … Read more
WWE Superstar Liv Morgan had high praise for Alexa Bliss and her twisted persona. Bliss’ character made a seismic shift when she fell under the influence of the Fiend. Since siding with the Fiend she adopted a manically happy and disturbed mentality. The character shift allowed Bliss to explore all kinds of weird and wonderful … Read more
WWE Superstar Liv Morgan was back in the ring taking on the Dark Order’s -1 for the “rematch everyone has been waiting for”. The “rematch” took place at Natalya and Tyson Kid’s training school and was captured by Amanda Huber. In the video, Morgan and Lee Jr can be seen running the ropes while Sonya … Read more
Liv Morgan picked up her first singles win since November after pinning Carmella on this week’s SmackDown. For the past two weeks, Morgan has had to find her footing without her tag team partner Ruby Riott who was released by the company. Whereas she has had more recent wins alongside Riott, Morgan now has to … Read more
This week’s SmackDown saw SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair putting her foot down when it comes to Bayley. Belair knows that she has bested Bayley inside the ring, however, for a while now the Role Model has been getting in the head of the EST.
Belair admits that she has had people mocking and laughing at her her entire life. Something that Bayley continues to do to her with her excessive cackling. So the champ decides to take the matter in her own hands and challenges Bayley to a match at Hell in a Cell.
As Belair is waiting for Bayley to answer the challenge, the champion starts to hear the cackling. Bayley shows up on the screen via satellite from her “sanctuary” where she had photos of herself as champion plastered behind her. The Role Model then accepts the EST’s challenge and says that she won’t be the only one laughing when she beats her. She then starts her laughter as all the screens in the Thunderdome fill up with the image of Bayley cackling.
Much like the upcoming RAW Women’s Championship match between Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair, this match was not announced to be inside the Hell in a Cell structure at the time of this writing.
Also on SmackDown, Carmella took on Liv Morgan. Prior to the match, Morgan addressed in a prerecorded promo that she thinks it is so cute that Carmella thinks she is the most beautiful woman in all of WWE. Morgan considers Carmella a 7 at best.
At the end of the match, Carmella tripped up Morgan and then proceeded to lock her in the Code of Silence. Morgan then tapped out to give Carmella the victory. After the match, Carmella required the ring announcer to address her win by referring to her as “the most beautiful woman in all of WWE.”
Morgan took to her social media after her loss and tweeted out to “keep watching.”
Over the weekend, Liv Morgan has posted a video of her training on her social media. In the video, she is training with fellow wrestler Jason Cade. She captions the post with, “I want it.” The end of the clip shows Morgan in the electric chair position transferring into a hurricanrana to get a pin. … Read more
Update: WWE WrestleMania’s Twitter account has removed the tweet that included Carmella and Billie Kay in this match. It is not known at this time if they will be involved. We will keep you updated on this. The speculation for the past week is true, a multi-tag team match will be taking place on Night … Read more
WrestleMania 37 is rapidly approaching and is now less than a month away. As of now, there is not a tag team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships on the card. Liv Morgan of The Riott Squad would love to see that change and she wants to win the titles at the biggest … Read more
SmackDown this week was a lot like last week with the exception that we did get one match. The match centered around the storyline of Billie Kay “joining” the Riott Squad as Liv Morgan faced Natalya. Kay joined commentary while Ruby Riott was at ringside for Morgan and Tamina for Natalya. Kay said she was … Read more
Amanda Huber took to Instagram to post a wonderful video of her eldest son, Brodie Lee Jr and Liv Morgan training in the ring at Natalya and Tyson Kidd’s gym. Along with the video, Huber wrote; Tonight was pretty cool. We got to go visit @tjwilson711 & @natbynature and let Brodie work in the ring. … Read more
It has been just about a year since Liv Morgan interrupted Lana’s wedding to Bobby Lashley and revealed that she and Lana were past lovers. The two had a couple of matches as a result earlier in the year. The storyline, however, was rarely touched upon. WWE has always been scrutinized for LGBTQ storylines and with valid reasons.
Morgan recently spoke to Inside the Ropes where she said she would be open to revisiting that storyline.
“I would love to touch on that story again because I think it’s so important just to show not different people but, you know, ‘Hey, maybe I love this girl,’ you know, like, I think it’s important just to show that. But I don’t think you ever can say never in WWE. I think anything and everything is open to being visited again. Is that happening? I have no idea. But would I like it? For sure.”
She further adds in some of the criticism that was received from portraying a lesbian character. Morgan says it was a mixed reaction. There were people who were happy she was back on screen regardless whereas there were others who felt the a lesbian should have portrayed that role.
“I think it was definitely split half and half and I think that’s because… I think people today, they want real representation. They want like… Characters are characters, but they want people that are really, maybe, experiencing these things to represent these characters. So I feel like, in that aspect, maybe it didn’t go over so well towards some people that felt like Lana’s secret lover could have been someone else that was maybe really into women, you know, but then on the other spectrum, this was my re-debut after like eight months off. So people were excited to see me and they were happy for me.”
A lot of the criticism came from the fact that this was a rumored storyline between Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose prior to this which obviously never came to light.
Lana previously mentioned she would love to revisit this as well. Right now both superstars are on opposite brands so don’t expect this to come to fruition anytime soon if it were to be brought up again. Lana has recently been receiving the most time she ever has in the ring. She was recently pulled from a tag title match for the TLC event after a kayfabe injury.
Although representation does matter, what would you think about them revisiting this? Leave your thoughts below.
As previously reported, Liv Morgan has a new documentary that is available as of today on the WWE Network. Titled Liv Forever, the documentary encompasses a 16-month journey of Morgan in both a professional and personal manner. She spoke on The Bump about the process of filming it and how her co-workers were all really … Read more
In a last chance match to join Team SmackDown for Survivor Series, Natalya finally gets her win. She went one-on-one with Tamina. It’s been a long road for Natalya and she hasn’t been happy about it. She has been involved in every qualifying match and kept losing after the eventual winner would sneak in the … Read more
Liv Morgan announced on Twitter that she is to feature in a WWE Chronicle on Nov, 29. The tweet mentions that cameras have been following her for sixteen months and will show us what life is like as a WWE Superstar. Morgan has had a rollercoaster year this year experiencing many twists and turns. At … Read more
After months of inactivity, Chelsea Green has officially made her debut on SmackDown. She was last seen quitting the Robert Stone Brand on NXT in May after a successful victory with Charlotte Flair against Io Shirai and Rhea Ripley. In a backstage segment, Natalya was yet again providing her frustrations to WWE authority, Adam Pearce … Read more
Lana becomes the number one contender for the RAW Women’s Championship as she is the last woman standing from the Dual-Brand Battle Royal. The match took place in the main event, despite having the attention taken away from it by Randy Orton and WWE Champion Drew McIntyre fighting backstage. The match was slated to have … Read more
Update!! It has been announced on the Kickoff show that Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, and Nia Jax are not medically cleared to compete. The Women’s Tag Team Title match has been scrapped and will be addressed on RAW tomorrow night. Bayley is in the building and she will address her match for tonight. Asuka vs. Zelina Vega has also been moved to the main … Read more
Update!! It has been announced on the Kickoff show that Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, and Nia Jax are not medically cleared to compete. The Women’s Tag Team Title match has been scrapped and will be addressed on RAW tomorrow night. Bayley is in the building and she will address her match for tonight. Asuka vs. … Read more
The character of Sister Abigail has always been a force in the story of Bray Wyatt. Ever since the gimmick of Wyatt’s and now into The Fiend, there has been this notion that Sister Abigail is around in some capacity. Liv Morgan was off of WWE programming for the majority of 2019 which led to … Read more
Another Monday Night RAW is in the books and the RAW Women’s Title picture seems to be even more confusing than it was before the show started. With Clash of Champions right around the corner, we have two matches booked. What is missing is the RAW Women’s Title on the card. Tonight, we witnessed the … Read more
WWE made it official just a few moments ago that the Women’s Tag Team Titles will be on the line at the upcoming Clash of Champions pay-per-view. It will be the champions, Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler defending their titles against the challengers – The Riott Squad. Jax & Baszler still are presented as an … Read more
When The Riott Squad first appeared as a team on WWE programming in 2017, many fans were wondering how this team could co exist. There were three women, all whom stand out in their own way, that had one goal in mind, and that was to dominate. Their dominance was felt at first, and while … Read more
This week’s RAW was a good showing for the women’s division. A total of four matches were on display. Although we do not know any matches just yet officially for Clash of Champions that will take place later on this month, we received a title match set for next week. Mickie James will go one on one against Asuka for the RAW Women’s Title on the Sept. 14 episode of RAW. This week? The two had to be on the same side of the ring as they took on the team of Nataly and Lana.
The matches on this week’s show were as follows:
Peyton Royce vs. Billie Kay
Mickie James & Asuka vs. Natalya & Lana
The Riott Squad vs. Shayna Baszler – 2 on 1 Handicap Match
The Riott Squad vs. Nia Jax – 2 on 1 Handicap Match
The first match was between the two former teammates. The IIconics were forced to break up last week following their loss to The Riott Squad. Now we have new entrances, new music, and two singles competitors in that of Peyton Royce and Billie Kay.
The two would face each other as the rest of us awkwardly looked on. There would be a hint of animosity as Royce blamed Kay for their break up. As expected due to a constant rumor that Royce was seen as high on Vince McMahon’s list, she would come out with the win.
After the match, Royce would help up Kay and hug her.
Initial thoughts:
Both of their new music is rather generic. I did enjoy the graphics for Billie though and her gear, it set her apart some from The IIconics. Peyton, however, for the one they seem to want to push more had the same gear she has been wearing. The match was okay, but I know they could have gone harder. Generally in my opinion, good friends can put on high caliber matches.
I could be wrong, but this seems to be a one-off match as the hug signified the end of the duo. As I half expected Peyton to attack Billie after the match, she didn’t.
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Next up we had the tag team match between Mickie James and Asuka as they face Lana and Natalya. James and Asuka played up the tension between the two with them tagging themselves in. Asuka steals the win from James at the end of the match as a result. She gets the win via submission via the Asuka Lock on Lana. James kept Natalya from saving Lana by delivering a Mick Kick on the outside.
Initial Thoughts:
It was a solid match – good storytelling between Mickie and Asuka. Seeing as they are both technically babyface, the build-up needs that much more effort. I am really enjoying the team of Lana and Natalya and I am glad Lana is getting back in the ring more. Assuming Lana and Natalya will likely cost Mickie her title match next Monday, this will lead up to what the Clash of Champions match will be for the RAW Women’s Title.
Lastly, we have two matches that involve The Riott Squad. First, we had Liv Morgan and Ruby Riott having to face Shayna Baszler in a 2-on-1 Handicap Match. The dynamic between Baszler and Nia Jax as tag team champions continue to show that they are far from friends. Baszler arguing with Jax who was at ringside would ultimately do her in. Morgan would secure a win on Baszler for The Riott Squad as they go up 1-0 for the night.
The second match was the second 2-on-1 Handicap Match as The Riott Squad faced Nia Jax. Morgan and Riott did a fantastic job through the match with constant tags in order to keep Jax down as much as possible. The duo knew that they had to focus on keeping Jax off her feet if they wanted to pick up this win.
The Riott Squad was close to another victory as the lights started to flicker and go out signaling the emergence of RETRIBUTION. Morgan went for the pin on Jax and at the count of two the lights went out and the RETRIBUTION stable had their first promo. So that being said, the match ended without a result.
Initial Thoughts:
Personally, I do not like handicap matches. I think they show little creativity and are pointless. These two matches, however, I understood the point. With Shayna and Nia still not fully on the same page, and how they took out Sasha Banks and Bayley – this made sense. Shayna beat both Sasha and Bayley to win the titles and Nia pinned both of them in order to retain the titles.
I wish the second match had a result and wasn’t interrupted by RETRIBUTION, but that gives Nia a leg to stand on saying she wasn’t “defeated.”
As far as RETRIBUTION, the women of the stable didn’t say anything in the promo. However, I am convinced that the two women in the group are Mia Yim and Vanessa Borne.
Let’s get into the Winners & Losers of the week:
WINNER: Liv Morgan
Liv getting a pin on Shayna was a nice surprise. These handicap matches were tricky, but it did make more sense for Shayna to lose. I am happy that the Riott Squad are back together, and Liv is continuing to shine as a result.
WINNER: Peyton Royce
Peyton is clearly the one receiving the push out of the artists formerly known as The IIconics. Her new music and entrance however I feel was way less impressive than Billie’s. I can only assume that Peyton may end up going to SmackDown though. Her going after the SmackDown Women’s Title just makes more sense.
WINNER: Asuka
Asuka was able to still squeak out a win even while being on a team with Mickie who is gunning for her. The way she won as well is reminding me of her initial heel turn, so she may end up being the heel in this scenario between the two. Her getting the win continues to make her look strong.
LOSER: Billie Kay
Unfortunately for Billie, Peyton’s win solidifies that she is favored as rumored. Personally I am worried about what is next for Billie. I wouldn’t mind a nice feud between the two, but with this randomness that was their break-up, I can see them now being on different brands. I just feel that Billie is going to get lost in the shuffle and not used.
What did you think of this week’s RAW? Who were your Winners & Losers? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below!!
RAW this week was definitely one that had heavy moves in both the RAW Women’s & Women’s Tag Team Title pictures. And for one team, many hearts were broken. Two main matches were had other than RAW Underground and they were: Mickie James vs. Lana The Riott Squad vs The IIconics – Winner becomes number … Read more
