WWE has announced that there will be a number one contender match taking place on tonight’s SmackDown. It will be a six-pack challenge and include Raquel Rodriguez vs. Aliyah vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Natalya vs. Shotzi vs. Xia Li. Last week, Rodriguez had a rematch with the SmackDown Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey. The match was … Read more
Other than a spot in the 2022 Royal Rumble back in January, SmackDown talent Shotzi hasn’t competed in a match on WWE programming. In fact, the last time she was on television was on the Dec. 17 episode of SmackDown in a tag team bout. Since then she worked some live shows throughout December but … Read more
Shotzi and Lita are two of the 30-women who will be entering the Royal Rumble Match on Jan. 29. What some may not remember is that these two women have a history with each other dating back to Shotzi’s time on Tough Enough. Lita served as a coach on the sixth season of the series … Read more
Sasha Banks was on a mission heading into Survivor Series to show to everyone, especially Shotzi, that she is the captain for Team SmackDown. The two faced off on this week’s SmackDown in their first meeting in a singles match. Shotzi attacked Banks a few weeks ago which started a new and different Shotzi transitioning … Read more
Aliyah had the biggest win of her career as she won her first match on this week’s SmackDown. To open up the show this week, Aliyah was part of a huge tag team match alongside Sasha Banks and Naomi. They teamed up to face Shayna Baszler, Natalya, and Shotzi. Except for Naomi, the other five … Read more
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
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
Naomi still hasn’t had her match. Naomi took matters into her own hands this week on SmackDown as she had her ring gear on and made her full entrance to the ring. Commentary stated she wasn’t scheduled for a match, but she took to the mic to issue a challenge to any woman in the … Read more
In the last SmackDown before SummerSlam this Saturday, SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair found herself in back-to-back matches. Without her SummerSlam opponent Sasha Banks in the building, Belair took out both of the women who have been backing Banks the past couple of weeks. Belair first faced Zelina Vega followed by Carmella. After Vega came … Read more
Shotzi Blackheart has responded to Chris Jericho’s response to her tweet she posted about the heavily criticized bump at AEW’s Blood and Guts. At the WarGames style event, Jericho took a dive off the top of the cage and onto the ramp that was clearly padded. The bump received the meme treatment online from fans … Read more
Now dubbed as Shotzi & Nox, Shotzi Blackheart and Tegan Nox have officially made their debut on SmackDown. They faced the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Natalya and Tamina in a non-title match.
Nox just made her return to NXT this past Tuesday after being out action for nearly a year. Sidelined with her third ACL tear, Nox was written off NXT television after she was attacked backstage by Candice LeRae. Nox distracted LeRae during her and Indi Hartwell’s NXT Women’s Tag Team defense which resulted in a title change. Io Shirai and Zoey Stark became the new champions.
As for Shotzi, she was in a well-established tag team with Ember Moon. The duo were former NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions and had a rivalry with Dakota Kai and NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez. Shotzi is now with Nox as Moon is staying in NXT. Moon took to Twitter to congratulate her now former tag team partner.
.@WWE Congrats @ShotziWWE You will always be my ttp 4 life! Show them what you can do! The #FirePit is no more but I am immensely proud of you!!!! #TCB ???
— Athena is ROH and All Elite! (@AthenaPalmer_FG) July 10, 2021
As for the match between the debuting team and the tag team champions, Shotzi picks up a huge win for her team after pinning the veteran Natalya. With the lack of tag teams on the main roster (mostly as a result of the WWE releases), this is a good start.
Shotzi and Nox aren’t the only call-ups coming. A vignette aired for the former NXT UK Women’s Champion Toni Storm. Storm has worked a dark match with Nox recently and along with Shotzi and Scarlett have been rumored to be moved to the roster. There is no further news on Scarlett at this time.
Io Shirai & Zoey Stark are officially the next opponents for The Way’s (Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell) NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships. The title match will take place at The Great American Bash on July 6. Shirai & Stark won this opportunity by winning a Triple Threat on this week’s NXT that involved NXT … Read more
Franky Monet was poised to have the encore of her world premiere tonight. Prior to her heading to the ring, a new face graced our screens as Elektra Lopez made her NXT debut. Lopez, formerly known as Karissa Rivera, was signed by WWE earlier in the year and had her class originally announced in February. … Read more
Shotzi Blackheart returned at this weekend’s NXT TakeOver: In Your House to help her tag team partner Ember Moon and get some revenge in the process. Blackheart has been out for a number of weeks after suffering an attack by Raquel Gonzalez and Dakota Kai. Moon challenged Gonzalez in an attempt to become a two-time NXT Women’s Champion. Despite Blackheart returning and removing Kai from the equation, Moon wasn’t able to put Gonzalez away and the championship stayed put.
Moon hit a huge Eclipse on Gonzalez prior to Blackheart’s return. As the count was heading in Moon’s favor and she was a mere second away from becoming the new champion, Kai inserted herself. Kai placed Gonzalez’s foot on the ropes. The referee saw Gonzalez’s foot but didn’t see Kai do it so the official called for the rope break to keep Gonzalez alive in the match.
Blackheart made her return and chased Kai around the ring slamming her into the plexiglass at ringside. The two then battled back and forth as they made their way to the stage where the In Your House set up was. Blackheart threw Kai into the plants below the set window. The two disappeared as they battled to the backstage area.
Moon tried to capitalize with Kai now out of the picture and she executed a big DDT from the ring apron onto the ramp. She tried for a second Eclipse, however, the champ was able to stop the attempt and grabbed Moon for the one-armed powerbomb to get the pin to retain her title.
The second women’s match from In Your House had Xia Li facing Mercedes Martinez in a very personal match. Li felt disrespected several years ago when Martinez defeated her in the Mae Young Classic. Martinez may have the experience but she knew she was heading into a three-on-one disadvantage because with Li comes the rest of Tian Sha (Boa and Mei Ying).
Li was able to finally get her retribution from many years ago as she came out with the win. As the match approaches its ending, Boa gets in the way of Martinez and the two exchange words before Boa is shoved to the side for Martinez to get to Li. After she is able to get a back drop on Li, Martinez goes for the Air Raid Crash but is unable to execute it as Li breaks free. Li connects with a spin kick to the face of Martinez which is enough to get the pin for the win.
After the match, things get intense as Mei Ying gets involved. Martinez didn’t back down from Ying and said she wasn’t scared of her. She tries to go for the steel chair which she just had to fight off Li and Boa post-match, but that wasn’t enough. Ying grabbed Martinez by the throat and slammed her into the plexiglass. All three members of Tian Sha then regrouped on the ramp as Martinez lays at ringside.
Other notes from the night includes a message from General Manager William Regal. Regal was leaving the building with tears in his eyes saying: “It’s been seven years since I became the GM of NXT and I’ve never seen so much bedlam. It’s complete madness. I think it’s time for a change.”
Could this be the end of Regal as GM? At this time it is just speculation. He will be at NXT this Tuesday to further address his concerns and statement.
The next special event will come in July and it will be the return of The Great American Bash. This event theme returned last year along with several others including In Your House and Halloween Havoc. It will be on July 6 on NXT’s regular night of Tuesday.
This week’s NXT is going to have the in-ring debut of Franky Monet as well as two teams that have their eye set on the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles. Former champions Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon will be facing Dakota Kai and NXT Women’s Title Raquel Gonzalez. Franky Monet has been in NXT for … Read more
Next week the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships will be on the line in a Street Fight. The champions, Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon will be defending their gold against The Way. Last week, Indi Hartwell said that she got herself and Candice LeRae a match against the champions but Blackheart/Moon had The Robert Stone … Read more
The Warrior of the Sun has officially wrestled her first match in NXT.
Sarray is victorious in her first match for the brand. The highly anticipated match landed her across the ring from Zoey Stark. Stark has been impressive since joining the brand herself so this match-up already had the potential to be a good one and it did not disappoint. She puts away her first opponent with a spinning heel kick under the jaw, connecting with a forearm, and hitting a suplex to get the pin.
After the match, both Sarray and Stark showed excellent sportsmanship. Sarray helped up Stark who then raised her arm in victory. As Stark was making her way up the ramp she was attacked by Toni Storm. Stark defeated Storm on the pre-show of TakeOver: Stand & Deliver and it is clear that taking that loss isn’t sitting well with Storm. Sarray went over to help Stark and to prevent any further attack from Storm.
This was the only women’s match on the show this week but there were many women throughout the show. NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez was being interviewed and was asked about all of the eyes that have been fixated on her now that she is champion. She said to line all the challengers up and she will defeat them all until there is no one left standing.
Kai then focused on Martinez who called out Gonzalez last week. Martinez answered later on in the night and said she would go through Kai first so that there will be no one in her way to get to Gonzalez and the gold.
"If they want to step up, go ahead, light 'em up, and I'll take them down one-by-one, until there is NO ONE left standing." – @RaquelWWE
As for the former NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai, she had a sit-down interview with Beth Phoenix about her title reign and recent loss and what she sees for her future. They discussed the match from Stand & Deliver which led to Shirai saying that when the time is right she will get her rematch.
Phoenix asked her what was next in the meantime. Shirai says her body needs rest in order to face Gonzalez again. As she tries to explain possible time away from the ring, Franky Monet entered with her dog. Monet introduced herself to Shirai and says that she is such a fan of Phoenix who she has been watching since she was a kid.
Monet adds that she didn’t mean to eavesdrop but since Shirai is going to take some time off that she could fill her shoes as the top woman of the NXT women’s division. Shirai responds in Japanese and after Monet says she doesn’t understand Shirai says that she likes cats.
Lastly, we have The Way. Early in the night, Dexter Lumis took on LA Knight and Indi Hartwell appeared behind the barricade. This distracted Lumis to the point that he suffered a loss. Hartwell then tried to console him and get her kiss but The Way came and grabbed her off the apron and took her away from the situation.
Throughout the night Hartwell continued to be preoccupied with the thought of Lumis. Candice LeRae told her that she really needs to get focused and stop being distracted by boys. They need to focus on the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles. Not knowing that Hartwell had left her, LeRae was approached by the champions Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon. Once LeRae realized that Hartwell was no longer by her side, the tag champs attacked her and pulled her into the bathroom.
After being attacked, a disheveled LeRae would join her husband Johnny Gargano along with Austin Theory backstage. Theory was discussing a match that he was able to get booked in. They asked what happened to LeRae but she didn’t answer as Hartwell joined her stablemates. Hartwell says she ran into William Regal and was able to get them a tag team title match. Everyone but LeRae seemed thrilled by that announcement as she is left by herself.
What did you think of Sarray’s debut match against Stark? How about everything else that transpired for the women of the brand this week? Leave your thoughts below.
The fall-out from last week’s TakeOver event, Stand & Deliver, is tonight on NXT’s new night. NXT will be on Tuesday nights from here on out and we have a new champion for the brand. Raquel Gonzalez defeated Io Shirai in the main event of Night One from TakeOver. Shirai held the title for over … Read more
NXT’s first-ever two-day event, TakeOver: Stand & Deliver took place over the past couple of night and offered up a division changing main event and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships on the line. The CWC looked great and the extra fans in attendance made a welcome return to the wrestling landscape. But enough about … Read more
Night two of NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver takes place tonight. The event features the first-ever defence of the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships on a Takeover. The champions Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon defend the titles against The Way, Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell. The two teams have been on a collision course for … Read more
A second women’s match has been added to the two-night TakeOver: Stand & Deliver event for next week. The NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships will be on the line as the champs Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon will be facing The Way (Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell). The match was announced on tonight’s NXT after … Read more
There has been a change to the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship match set for tonight’s show. Jessi Kamea is out with an injury according to an official report by WWE. Therefore, Aliyah and Robert Stone have looked to a former member of The Robert Stone Brand to help – Mercedes Martinez. Aliyah and Martinez … Read more
Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon came out of last week as the NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions and now the whole roster has their eyes on them. First to step up to the champs are none other than The Robert Stone Brand. Aliyah and Jessi Kamea interrupted the champions who were backstage soaking in their … Read more
This week’s NXT certainly had a rollercoaster of emotions. Io Shirai retained her NXT Women’s Title, we had the introduction of the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles with two different champions, and Xia Li received some retaliation. The show started out with General Manager William Regal making the announcement that he promised from last week. … Read more
As quickly as Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez became the first NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions they are now just as quickly the former champions. From being presented with the tag titles (as a result of their Dusty Cup win) and marked as the inaugural champions by William Regal earlier in the night, they also … Read more
The fallout from TakeOver: Vengeance Day is upon us and there certainly will be a lot to unpack on tonight’s NXT. We witnessed the very first winners of a women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and they have a future tag team title opportunity in their back pockets. Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez earned that … Read more
