In case you missed this week’s Raw, here is what happened. WWE remembered that they have other women on the roster, and this includes Tegan Nox. So she dusted off the Shiniest Wizard and had a backstage segment with the NXT Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. Lynch tells Nox that when she made the open challenge … Read more
She’s not like most girls, and she is back. Nia Jax returns to WWE on the Sept. 11 episode of Monday Night Raw. In the main event booked was a rematch from Payback as Rhea Ripley defended the Women’s World Championship against Raquel Rodriguez. Rodriguez had lost her match against Ripley at Payback thanks to … Read more
Rumors started to circulate earlier in the week after a report by PWInsider that former WWE Raw Women’s Champion Nia Jax may be making her way back to the company. The report mostly stated that her name has been mentioned as of late. While speaking to Sportskeeda WrestleBinge, Jax answered a few questions. She stated … Read more
Nia Jax, real name Lina Fanene, was the Sole Survivor in the 2018 Survivor Series women’s match. Her victory won the match for her team which included: Sasha Banks, Tamina, Mickie James, and Bayley. But was she the original planned Sole Survivor? According go Fanene, it was supposed to be Sasha Banks. Fanene sat down … Read more
Tamina responded to a question with TMZ Sports on the possibility of her rejoining as a team with Nia Jax. Jax returned to WWE during the 2023 Royal Rumble shockingly in the number 30 spot. Since her one-off appearance, Jax has not appeared on WWE TV and there isn’t an indication that she is returning … Read more
Lina Fanene, known in WWE as Nia Jax, recently sat down with Renee Paquette to open up about her WWE release. On The Sessions, Fanene gets candid about her last couple of years with the company and how the environment felt different once she came back from her double knee surgery. She was released by … Read more
WWE released a staggering amount of talent last year, in what is the largest spate of releases in company history. Fans were left reeling when WWE announced the release of multiple superstars such as Billie Kay, Peyton Royce, Chelsea Green, and Mickie James just after WrestleMania 37. Unfortunately, WWE continued to release wrestlers at an … Read more
The artist formerly known as Nia Jax will be “spilling gossip” in her first post-WWE interview with Renee Paquette. Lina Fanene took to social media to reveal she will be chatting to Paquette in a future episode of Oral Sessions. WWE shockingly released Fanene from her contract last month in another round of budgetary cuts. … Read more
Former WWE Superstar Nia Jax has seemingly revealed her new ring name for when she returns to the squared circle. Jax was among the names shockingly released from WWE on November 4th in another slew of budgetary cutbacks. Now, the former RAW Women’s Champion has changed her name on social media to Lina Fanene. Her … Read more
Nia Jax was one of 10-women [18 people in total] who were released by WWE yesterday in yet another round of releases from the company in 2021. As with all the releases that have taken place this year, the company doubles down on the “budget cuts” explanation to why they keep occurring. Amid the reasoning … Read more
WWE has reportedly come to terms with the release of Nia Jax, Mia Yim, and Eva Marie. According to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, these three names have been added to the other seven women that have been released from WWE today. Nia Jax is perhaps the most shocking name on this list as she … Read more
Over the past few weeks, a Shayna Baszler attitude that has been missing has come back around as she has viciously attacked both her former tag team partner Nia Jax as well as Eva Marie. After she faced Jax on the Sept. 20 episode of RAW, Baszler took out her frustrations while blaming Jax in … Read more
After Night One of the WWE Draft took place on SmackDown, a few more selections have been made on Talking Smack. Now co-hosted by WWE newcomer Jackie Redmond along with Matt Camp, they unveiled some more destinations for some of the female talent. Kayla Braxton was backstage at SmackDown and after seven years and an … Read more
WWE has announced that Nia Jax is now out of action following the vicious attack from Shayna Baszler on this past Monday’s RAW. The announcement says she requires surgery as she has suffered an elbow posterior fracture and dislocation to her left elbow. On RAW, the breakdown of the relationship between Jax and Baszler erupted … Read more
This week’s RAW was the last stop for the red brand prior to Extreme Rules this coming Sunday. The match representing RAW on that show will be for the RAW Women’s Championship where Charlotte Flair will be defending against Alexa Bliss. The two held a segment in Alexa’s Playground tonight which did wind up getting … Read more
Nia Jax had a chance to become RAW Women’s Champion by showing that she could pin the champion Charlotte Flair two weeks in a row. This objective kept becoming more and more less likely from the very beginning of the match as Shayna Baszler was very much involved. From before the sound of the bell, … Read more
The two had a match last week in which Jax pinned the RAW Women’s Champion. The bout had a lot of eyes on it as the two seemed to have some real animosity in the match leading to a very stiff encounter.
Flair is newly champion after defeating both Nikki A.S.H and Rhea Ripley at SummerSlam. Jax is a previous RAW Women’s Champion but hasn’t held the title since 2018. She is more recently a two-time Women’s Tag Team Champion with Shayna Baszler.
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Despite last week teasing Alexa Bliss as Charlotte Flair’s next competitor, it appears that Nia Jax will be the next woman to go up against The Queen. On tonight’s RAW, Nia Jax took on Flair in a non-title bout. In a very stiff match, it ends with Jax getting a pin on the RAW Women’s … Read more
With SummerSlam now over, things seem to be moving forward now on the RAW brand in some situations. Charlotte Flair became the new RAW Women’s Champion at SummerSlam when she forced Nikki A.S.H. to submit in a match that also included Rhea Ripley. Finally, we seem to be moving past these three feuding for a … Read more
For the third week in a row, the women of the RAW brand main evented the show. This time, RAW Women’s Champion Nikki A.S.H. faced Charlotte Flair in a No Holds Barred Match. Nikki demanded to have this match directly after she lost to Flair last week. Flair is still reeling that she was cashed … Read more
On this week’s RAW, Nikki Cross continues with her new gimmick she started last week and has coined that she is “Almost a Superhero.” Claiming that her name could end up being Nikki A.S.H as a result, commentary went back and forth between calling her both names throughout her match against Shayna Baszler.
Prior to their match, Baszler was seen backstage by herself with a deck of cards. Nia Jax and Reginald approached her making sure she was focused heading into her match with Cross. After they walked off-screen, Alexa Bliss was seen lurking in the background. Last week, Bliss and Cross qualified for the upcoming Money in the Bank Ladder Match after they defeated Jax and Baszler. Cross pinned Baszler so The Queen of Spades was looking for some revenge against her and further had plans to take care of Bliss.
Bliss came out during the Cross vs. Baszler match and although she interacted with Jax and Reginald, the match continued. Baszler was distracted by the happenings on the outside, however, Cross wasn’t able to get the pin right away. After a clothesline took down Cross, she regained momentum by locking Baszler’s arm and placing her in a cradle for the victory.
Moving on to a rematch from last week, Doudrop and Eva Marie took on Naomi and Asuka. Last week, Naomi and Asuka got the win after the Eva-Lution has already started to have cracks in its mission. After Eva gave the pet name of Doudrop to Piper Niven, the “protege” wasn’t too happy. She stepped off the apron instead of accepting the tag which allowed Naomi to pin Eva. Naomi and Asuka qualified for the upcoming Money in the Bank Ladder Match as a result.
This week, we saw distrust again between the new members of RAW but this time Eva Marie jumped down from the ring apron and refused to tag in to help her partner. This time, however, Doudrop was able to maintain focus and she won the match after hitting a crossbody off the ropes on Asuka. Although this was a tag team match, Eva took the mic from the ring announcer and said that the winner of the match was just herself. This left Doudrop fuming in the ring as the segment ended.
The third and final women’s match of the night was the advertised six-woman tag team match. RAW Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley teamed up with Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke to face Charlotte Flair and the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Tamina and Natalya.
For the first half of the match, Flair/Tamina/Natalya isolated Brooke in their corner keeping her away from her team. Once she was finally able to tag out the match broke down with each woman being highlighted and Brooke/Rose showing some solid tag teamwork. In the end, the two legal women would be Rose and Flair.
Flair delivered the big boot to get the win for her team. She wasn’t able to celebrate for long as Ripley re-entered the ring and chop blocked the left knee of Flair. Flair tried to go right after her but she had already rolled out of the ring. She taunted her on the outside to end the segment.
What did you think of this week’s RAW? Join the discussion in the comment section below.
Prior to any matches taking place, Naomi & Lana along with Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke were arguing backstage with WWE Authority Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville on who would be next to get a title shot. Now that we have new champions, the teams are wanting another go.
Naomi mentions how every time her and Lana would have a match they would always get interrupted in some capacity. Mandy and Dana stated that they were on the winning team last week against the former tag team champions.
Deville then asks the ladies to give her and Pearce a moment with Flair as they have something to discuss. No surprise, Flair stated that she wasn’t the one to take the pin during last night’s Triple Threat match, so she wants Rhea Ripley one-on-one for the RAW Women’s Championship. Deville says that she understands where she is coming from (as always) but says she will have to defeat Asuka later in the night in order to get another title shot.
Rhea Ripley says what every single fan has been saying for a while now….that she is here and she wants to take on some NEW competitors. Yes Rhea! Fresh matches…we WANT to see it.
As for the match between Asuka and Flair, it ends up much like their match did a few weeks ago. Asuka gets the pin, which was very much needed for her, from some assistance on a distraction by Ripley. So does this mean that Flair might not be facing Ripley again, or….?
If that is the case, who would Flair go for next? Could we maybe see Sonya making a return to the ring after perhaps she doesn’t feed into Flair wanting another title match? I may just be getting my hopes up to see some new matches.
As for the Women’s Tag Team Title rematch, let’s take a trip to Alexa’s Playground first. She invited the new champs, Tamina & Natalya to visit. Tamina definitely wasn’t having it and wanted out every second she was there.
They start off by talking about their tag team win. Nattie says that it was no easy task beating two of the toughest women in the division but it was something they will cherish and it was also Tamina’s first title win.
Bliss responds, “super duper, that is nice” as she holds Lilly up. Tamina, who had been staring around the playground, asks if they can leave now. Bliss then says that she hasn’t even asked the “tough questions yet.” She says Lilly wants to know what their favorite colors are. Nattie of course says pink but Tamina says black and blue which is what Alexa’s face will look like if she tries anything weird.
Bliss says that wasn’t very nice but Lilly likes Tamina. She really liked it when Tamina beat up Reginald and wanted to know if that was fun. Tamina says it was and if he tries to interfere in the rematch then she will have no problem “swatting” him again. Bliss then goes on to say what Lilly likes in regards to dead bugs as Tamina and Nattie quietly exit.
Once Bliss realizes they are gone she says she will be watching the tag team match. And that she did.
Bliss came out with Lilly in hand on the stage during the match just as Reginald was creeping up the steel steps to the ring. Tamina had Baszler up on her shoulders, but Baszler countered and was trying to lock in the Kirifuda Clutch. As Reginald was on the steel steps the ring post pyro went off and burst into flames causing him to be launched back to the barricade. Jax went to go check on him as he kept his eyes covered.
Tamina then took advantage and held up Baszler for Nattie to execute a clothesline to get the pin and retain their titles.
This keeps me hopeful also that we may end up seeing the end of Baszler & Jax vs Tamia & Nattie. With their loss they should be put at the back of the line.
As for Bliss and what’s to come, it seems as though she is definitely targeting Baszler and Jax. She did some voodoo magic on Baszler’s knee last week and then went after Reginald this week.
We did get another new promo for Eva Marie. It was similar to last week’s where it definitely seems like she will first step into perhaps a managerial or mentor role. She talks about being in film and compares herself to a heroine just like Angelina Jolie.
Lastly, there was a Nikki Cross sighting. She was a lumberjill during the lumberjack match between Damian Priest and John Morrison. She was the only woman out there and was front and center. Unfortunately they didn’t do much with her, but it was good to at least see her out there.
Let’s get into the Winners & Losers of this week’s RAW:
WINNER: Asuka
A great bounced back and much needed win for Asuka. It was almost certain that Asuka was going to take the fall at WrestleMania Backlash, and she did just that. Although it was a great Triple Threat, Asuka tends to take the fall in type of matches. This win against Charlotte tonight though still gave her that fight that she needs to not be brushed aside. Not sure where this is all going next, but her getting that win kept her in a good light.
WINNERS: Tamina & Nattie
First successful title defense – check! Not sure about anybody else, but I was holding my breath thinking that they were going to take the titles off of them this quick. It’s WWE, so I wouldn’t have been surprised. I thought the interaction with Alexa Bliss was great also….and I am looking forward to them hopefully facing The Riott Squad on SmackDown.
Side note: I am all for the tag team champions being used on both brands – they are supposed to be. However, the fact they have to be used on both brands every week shows how badly we need some new faces on both brands.
LOSERS: Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler
It seems to be obvious that they are probably Alexa’s target. If that’s the case I am all for them moving on and away from the title. However, them losing should put them at the back of the line.
LOSER: Charlotte Flair
Much like Nia & Shayna, Charlotte losing should put her in the back of the line. But this is Charlotte Flair, so I won’t count my chickens until I see what happens the next couple of week’s. I would really love for her and Sonya to feud next. Maybe that’s just me really wanting Sonya back in the ring, but I honestly think they could have some great one-on-one matches together.
What did you think of this week’s RAW? Who were your Winners & Losers? Discuss in the comment section below!
WWE has announced a six-woman tag team match for this Monday’s RAW. Charlotte Flair will team up with the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler as they face Asuka, Dana Brooke, and Mandy Rose. WrestleMania Backlash is a week from today and Asuka and Flair will be involved in a Triple … Read more
The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships will be on the line for next week’s SmackDown. The champions, Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler will be defending against Tamina & Natalya. For weeks now, the team of Natalya and Tamina have been besting the tag champs. Whether it has been singles matches or as a tag team, … Read more
Naomi & Lana were unsuccessful in their title shot against WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax on last night’s RAW. While Naomi was preoccupied with Jax on the outside, Lana had Baszler pinned for well over a three-count. The issue was the official for the match was distracted by Reginald on … Read more
WWE has officially announced that WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax will be defending their titles against the team of Naomi & Lana. The match will take place on this Monday’s RAW.
Baszler & Jax has had rivalries with both Naomi & Lana and the team of Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke on the red brand while battling Natalya & Tamina on SmackDown. Last week’s RAW saw a six-woman tag match which had Baszler & Jax along with RAW Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley defeating Naomi, Lana, and Asuka.
Naomi & Lana do have a tag team win over the champions from the April 19 episode of RAW and Naomi had a singles victory over Baszler in March. Ravishing Glow had a shot at the belts on the March 8 episode of RAW but was unable to walk away with the gold.
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