Masha Slamovich claims her first TNA Knockouts Championship. WWE NXT goes to the intense subsequent week. Katie Arquette chats with WrestleZone, and extra! Let’s break it down on this week’s version of Ladies’s Wrestling Wrap-Up!
Masha Slamovich Claims TNA Singles Gold
There’s a brand new sheriff within the TNA Knockouts division, and her identify is Masha Slamovich.
At TNA Sure For Glory, Jordynne Grace defended her Knockouts Championship in opposition to “The Russian Dynamite” Masha Slamovich. This marked the third title match between the 2, as Grace had beforehand defeated Slamovich at Sure For Glory and Over Drive in 2022. Heading into this yr’s Sure For Glory, Slamovich appeared to alter her destiny, and that, she did.
Within the match’s closing moments, Slamovich surprisingly kicked out of Grace’s Juggernaut Driver finisher. With momentum on her facet, Slamovich then despatched “The Juggernaut” crashing to the mat with a Sluggish Plow off the highest rope and a Piledriver within the middle of the ring, the latter of which solidified the victory and her first Knockouts Championship reign.
Contemporary off her huge win at Sure For Glory, Slamovich appeared on the in style late-night discuss present, Final Week Tonight with John Oliver. There, Slamovich emerged in a parody music video, starring Will Ferrell, impressed by Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” In it, Slamovich is seen sitting atop a blue tractor, with a farm setting within the background.
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Elsewhere at Sure For Glory, Dani Luna and Jody Risk beat Rosemary and WWE NXT’s Wendy Choo to retain the Knockouts Tag Workforce Championships. Fellow Knockouts Tasha Steelz and Lei Ying Lee additionally appeared on the cardboard, particularly as entrants within the pre-show Name Your Shot Gauntlet. The latter finally eradicated the previous, earlier than struggling her personal elimination by the hands of Frankie Kazarian.
WWE NXT To Go Excessive In Philadelphia
Contemporary off a profitable Halloween Havoc premium stay occasion, the WWE NXT model now seems forward to a particular Wednesday night time program from the outdated ECW enviornment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
With the spirit of ECW nonetheless roaming all through the respective venue, NXT booker Shawn Michaels has put collectively two girls’s matches for subsequent week’s present, one in every of which encompasses a former ECW expertise. 26 years after debuting because the supervisor to Lance Storm in ECW, Daybreak Marie will function the particular visitor referee for a hardcore match between Lola Vice and Jaida Parker subsequent week.
Elsewhere, former TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace returns to NXT motion in a stacked 10-woman tag staff match. In Grace’s nook will likely be Kelani Jordan and the lately signed names of Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer, and Zaria (fka DELTA). On the opposite facet, NXT Ladies’s Champion Roxanne Perez will staff with Cora Jade and Deadly Affect (Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley, and Jazmyn Nyx). This tag bout comes after the latter 5 surrounded Zaria on this week’s episode of NXT. Fortunately for her, although, Kelani, Vaquer, Giulia and Jordynne shortly rushed right down to even the chances.
At NXT Halloween Havoc, Henley defeated Kelani in a Gauntlet match to assert the NXT Ladies’s North American Championship, after which Zaria attacked all three members of Deadly Affect. In the meantime, Giulia and Vaquer beat Perez and Jade in tag staff motion.
READ MORE: WWE NXT Halloween Havoc Outcomes: Overview, Grades, Card For October 27
Abadon Will get ROH Ladies’s Title Shot
On the spookiest day of the yr, AEW/ROH’s spookiest competitor will vie for a serious title.
As beforehand introduced on social media, “The Residing Useless Woman” Abadon will problem Athena for the ROH Ladies’s Championship on the Halloween night time episode of ROH on HonorClub. As an added stake, this title match will come paired with the Halloween Ring of Horror stipulation, which suggests the inclusion of Halloween-themed antics and weapons.
This marks Abadon’s first-ever shot on the ROH Ladies’s Championship. In the meantime, “The Ceaselessly Champ” Athena is coming off a profitable title protection in opposition to Gisele Shaw at Maple Leaf Professional.
Final yr, Abadon challenged Hikaru Shida for the AEW Ladies’s Championship on the particular “Fright Evening” version of AEW Collision, albeit to no avail. This yr, Abadon seems to alter their destiny and declare their first world title underneath the AEW/ROH umbrella.
INTERVIEWS
“The Queen of the Silver Display” Katie Arquette spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about rating on the PWI Ladies’s 250, becoming a member of The Manufacturing with Derek Dillinger, evolving into the “Main Girl,” her expertise at Mother’s Spaghetti in Detroit, her Halloween vacation sizzling takes, favourite scary films, and extra.
“The Arachnoid” Blair Onyx additionally chatted with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about rating on the PWI Ladies’s 250, studying from Kylie Rae on the Freelance Wrestling Academy, her Exorcist-inspired Halloween venture, favourite scary films, how she’s grown mentally and bodily all through her profession, eager to repay her dad and mom’ home, and extra.
WWE Ladies’s World Champion Liv Morgan joined Chris Van Vliet to debate her reign because the Ladies’s World Champion, the Liv Morgan Revenge Tour, how this reign compares to her first one, her relationship with Dominik Mysterio, paying tribute to Britney Spears along with her ring gear at King and Queen of the Ring, and extra.
Former GCW Tag Workforce Champion Allie Katch appeared on Love Wrestling to speak about her current tour of Europe, GCW, her impending return to Winnipeg, heading again to Love Professional Wrestling for the third time in 2024, and extra.
TNA Knockouts Champion Masha Slamovich talked with the Hitting The Turnbuckle Podcast about her Knockouts Championship match in opposition to Jordynne Grace, the rise of the Knockouts division, the significance of Sure For Glory, beating Jordynne Grace, who she want to wrestle, and extra.
WWE Ladies’s Cash within the Financial institution winner Tiffany Stratton joined The Takedown On SI to debate the champion vs. champion match between Nia Jax and Liv Morgan, doubtlessly cashing in at WWE Crown Jewel, her rise on the WWE’s foremost roster, suggestions she’s obtained from Brian “Highway Dogg” James, presumably wrestling “The Queen” Charlotte Aptitude at WrestleMania, and extra.
