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WWE News: Big Update On Changes To Women’s Royal Rumble Match

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6 years ago

January 5, 2018

With WWE’s Royal Rumble event upcoming on the 28th of this month, it makes sense to think that the company will make some changes between now and then. WWE clearly knows that they cannot just make the event a crazy, as it’ll connect to WrestleMania 34 in a big way. With WWE adding a Women’s Royal Rumble to the event this year, it changed things for them. They now have to pay attention to how they book women this year in a far bigger way than before.

With that said, this match is going to have a lot involved in it. While the original idea was to do 20 women, this was thrown in and out. It appears many more wanted 30, and that is what WWE decided on. Kurt Angle also told us on WWE RAW that the rules of the match will be just like the men’s Rumble. We also know that WWE has decided to bring in some women from WWE NXT to make main roster debuts in that match, according to The Wrestling Observer.

The women currently heading for the spot will be Ember Moon, Peyton Royce, Billy Kay, and Nikki Cross. Though Kay may only just accompany Royce rather than wrestle then. All these women will make debuts here, but won’t stay on the main roster. They will make their permanent debuts later in the year, with most being after WrestleMania.

What To Expect When You’re Not Expecting From WWE

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While the NXT girls appearing makes sense to fill in some holes, you’re likely to see some legends make their return in this match. People like Lita and Trish Stratus are clear favorites to be in this spots, but fellow WWE Hall of Famers like Jacqueline and Beth Phoenix are also speculated to be in the match from others. Even Kelly Kelly has been rumored for this weirdly enough. The addition of both past women and NXT women was kind of a new decision by the company. Though minds could change yet again, it likely won’t.

The reason has to do with women on the roster. There are only 19 active women creative and management can use from the main roster, so they have 11 extra spots they must fill. The original idea was to only use past women or only use NXT girls to make up this amount, but the mix was one that creative seemed to dig far more.

On top of all of this, one of the most important people you should expect to see is Ronda Rousey. In fact, she very well could be the odds on favorite to win the whole Women’s Rumble. As of now, WWE is considering having both Asuka and Charlotte Flair become or remain champions at the Rumble event. This means that the winner, being Rousey most likely, will pick between one or the other and won’t be held to the show they are on. Similar to the men as well.

Ronda vs Charlotte is rumored to be already in WWE’s WrestleMania plans anyway. This makes sense right? Let’s have the woman, who never once wrestled for the company, come in and win the first women’s Rumble. Then take on the biggest female star in WWE right now in the women’s main event for the biggest wrestling show of the year. It’s not like anyone will be bitter about that at all, WWE. This will go flawlessly.

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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

Published

5 months ago

November 27, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Did your picks win points?

The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!

Here are your Gold League standings!

Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
Rush: 0-1, 0 points
Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points

Here are your Blue League standings!

Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete

My Thoughts:

Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.

Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.

In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.

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AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

5 months ago

November 22, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”

Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:

Blue League

Bryan Danielson
Andrade El Idolo
Brody King
Claudio Castagnoli
Daniel Garcia
Eddie Kingston

Gold League

Jon Moxley
Swerve Strickland
Rush
Mark Briscoe
Jay Lethal
Jay White

Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:

Every match has a 20 minute time limit
The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action

Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!

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