WWE has taken to social media to announce and confirm this year’s Survivor Series teams. The traditional Survivor Series elimination match will be five women from RAW taking on five women from SmackDown. The Survivor Series event will take place on Nov. 21. The RAW team is as follows: Bianca Belair Rhea Ripley Liv Morgan … Read more
The games continue from Sonya Deville. On this week’s SmackDown, Naomi was still looking for a win and some revenge as she went one-on-one once again with Shayna Baszler. Naomi was originally victorious in her match after she escaped the Kirifuda Clutch and locked Baszler down for the pin. After the match, Deville made her … Read more
This week’s SmackDown opened up with the SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair in the ring. Joining her was Sasha Banks, who since last week, has been looking for a championship match. Flair considered this notion of Banks wanting a title shot as a bit selfish and she wanted to give an opportunity to one of … Read more
When WWE made the official announcement of the Queen’s Crown Tournament, fans were ecstatic that it was finally happening. A Women’s Division counterpart to a WWE staple King of the Ring would be real and adds more opportunities given the constant evolvement of the Women’s Evolution. Another chance for one of the female WWE Superstars … Read more
Zelina Vega has moved into the finals of the Queen’s Crown Tournament as she defeated Carmella on this week’s SmackDown. In another quick blink of an eye match, Vega and Carmella agreed that any attack on Carmella’s face wasn’t going to take place. Therefore, the self-proclaimed most beautiful woman in all of WWE didn’t need … Read more
The first-round came to a close of the Queen’s Crown Tournament on Monday Night RAW with two women advancing to the semi-finals. Doudrop and Shayna Baszler won their respective matches and will face each other in the next round. The winner between them will face the winner of the SmackDown brackets in the finals at … 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
Prior to RAW, Charlotte Flair issued an open challenge for her RAW Women’s Championship. She retained against Alexa Bliss last night at Extreme Rules and ripped apart Bliss’ doll Lilly after the match. Tonight she was ready for anyone to face her and prior to the match, Doudrop got the approval [?] from Sonya Deville … 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
WWE has announced two women’s matches that will take place on this upcoming week’s RAW on Sept. 13. First, Rhea Ripley will go one-on-one with one-half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions – Natalya. Last week, Ripley teamed with Nikki A.S.H. as the two former champions defeated Natalya and Tamina in a non-title match. The … 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
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
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.
Shayna Baszler and Alexa Bliss are currently involved in a rivalry that features haunted dolls and hypnosis. The feud is a major talking point within the wrestling community, with many fans criticising the angle’s supernatural elements. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, ‘The Queen of Spades’ spoke about her polarising feud with Alexa Bliss. Baszler’s WWE … Read more
WWE Hell in a Cell was the last PPV event to take place in front of the ThunderDome screens. The show gave us four women’s matches, two of which were championship bouts with one taking place inside the unforgiving steel structure. Natalya vs Mandy Rose The kick off show saw Natalya take on Mandy Rose … Read more
We have arrived at Hell in a Cell which is set to take place tonight. A WWE pay-per-view that is typically aired in October is now starting off the summer for the company. Despite some heavy and rightful criticism of the build-up for this event when it comes to certain storylines, four women’s matches are … Read more
At the start of tonight’s RAW it was announced by Nia Jax that Alexa Bliss will get to see how Shayna Baszler is doing this Sunday at Hell in a Cell. Last week’s RAW ended with Baszler screaming in a dark room after being terrorized by Bliss’ doll – Lilly. Bliss opened up RAW stating … Read more
This week’s RAW ended with Shayna Baszler screaming in the dark.
Nia Jax warned Baszler prior to entering Alexa’s Playground that she had never seen Alexa Bliss this way before. That wasn’t enough to stop Baszler as she was convinced that Bliss was nothing to worry about and that Lilly is just a “stupid doll.”
The main event of the show witnessed Baszler make her way to the ring where Bliss and Lilly were waiting for her. It was Baszler’s idea from last week to have a chat with Bliss before anything got out of hand to deal with the situation. For week’s Bliss/Lilly have been targeting Baszler/Jax/Reginald and The Queen of Spades blames these occurrences for the reason why she and Jax are no longer tag team champions.
It would be Bliss who started the physical altercation after Baszler continued to mock Lilly. Bliss let her know that all she had to do was to apologize to Lilly, but Baszler was dead set on the idea that Lilly was nothing more than a stupid doll. After the confrontation got physical, Baszler took it one step further (pun intended) and stepped on Lilly.
This unleashed the anger in Lilly and the pyro went off in the arena which sent Baszler scurrying to the backstage area. Something felt different as there was no one backstage and the former Women’s Tag Team Champion was all alone. She kept trying to tell herself that Lilly was just a doll and nothing was happening but panic started setting in as she tried to escape the building as random stage equipment started falling down around her.
Baszler found herself in a room where she had hoped she was safe. However, she came to a mirror which had Lilly in the reflection. When she turned around, Lilly wasn’t there. She tried to compose herself — but once again looking at the mirror the doll reappeared. Baszler then broke the mirror, everything went black, and Baszler was left screaming as RAW went off the air.
Elsewhere on RAW, Nikki Cross picked up her third win in a row by pinning the RAW Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley in tag team action. Unlike her prior two wins where she had to just avoid being defeated in two-minutes in Beat the Clock challenges, this win came with an actual pinfall.
Earlier in the night, Charlotte Flair wanted her loss to Cross last week to be wiped from her record. WWE Authorities Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville wouldn’t budge on the matter. They did decide that Flair should team with Ripley against Cross and an opponent of her choosing. She chose Asuka.
The match was given plenty of time and highlighted the obvious descension between Flair and Ripley. That would ultimately be their demise as Flair couldn’t help herself by taking out her own partner with Natural Selection. Flair then sat by while watching Cross pin the RAW Women’s Champion.
After the match, Cross and Asuka celebrated their win by dancing on the commentary table. The celebration continued backstage in a WWE Network Exclusive. Both women were extremely fired up from their win.
What did you think of this week’s RAW? Sound off in the comment section below.
RAW kicked off this week with a Miz TV in which RAW Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley along with Charlotte Flair were the guests. These two women have a match for the championship at the next pay-per-view at Hell in a Cell. One woman had something to say about the championship, thus interrupting Miz TV to say her peace. That woman is Nikki Cross.
Cross defeated RAW Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley last week by avoiding a pin or submission during a two-minute beat the clock challenge. Because she avoided defeat in that match against the champion, she believe she deserves a title opportunity. Cross then asked Flair if she defeats her in two-minutes as well – will that make her a contender to face whoever is champion after Hell in a Cell?
This then created another beat the clock challenge, this time against Flair with the same time limit of two-minutes. Flair declared she could get the job done in one minute. Regardless, Cross spent half the time avoiding Flair on the outside of the ring. As a result, Flair was not able to put away Cross in the two-minute time frame. Cross wins for the second week in a row.
Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke defeated Naomi and Lana
Baszler had the Kirifuda Clutch locked in and was moments away from having Reginald tap. As she backed herself towards the corner of the ring, the fire/pyro went off at the turnbuckle which distracted her. Reginald then rolled thru on Baszler to pin her for the win. Nia Jax celebrated with Reginald backstage.
Reginald was then invited to Alexa’s Playground for later on in the night.
The last women’s match involved two teams who would like an opportunity at the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships. With the champions on commentary, Tamina & Natalya looked on as Naomi & Lana faced Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke. Natalya spoke a lot about Lana and how she helped train her. The match came down Brooke winning it for her team as she pins Lana.
Lastly on Alexa’s Playground, Alexa Bliss and Lilly were excited to speak with Reginald. Lilly asked Reginald how it was working with Cirque du Soleil but he wasn’t able to answer due to Baszler attacking him from behind. After taking him out, Bliss let Baszler know she wasn’t invited because Lilly doesn’t like her. Baszler says that next week they need to have a little chat and then let Lilly know that she is just a stupid doll.
For this week’s RAW there is one match and one segment advertised. The first is stemming from last week’s main event where Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax were not able to regain the Women’s Tag Team Championships. This was thanks to Reginald who involved himself at the wrong time again. Baszler will be facing Reginald … Read more
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
