Roxanne Perez will defend the WWE NXT Ladies’s Championship at NXT Heatwave. Shayna Baszler is about to return to Bloodsport. AEW provides two new matches to the Forbidden Door pre-show. Tarlee chats with WrestleZone, and extra!
Let’s break it down on this week’s version of Ladies’s Wrestling Wrap-Up!
Roxanne Perez vs. Lola Vice Set For NXT Heatwave
On July 7, WWE NXT will current the 2024 Heatwave premium stay occasion in Toronto. Earlier this week, the model confirmed two notable matches for the occasion.
Coming off her profitable title protection towards TNA’s Jordynne Grace, Roxanne Perez is now slated to defend her NXT Ladies’s Championship towards Lola Vice at NXT Heatwave. This title match comes after Vice attacked Perez on this week’s episode of NXT and briefly stole her NXT Ladies’s Championship. Later within the evening, Vice demanded that NXT Common Supervisor Ava grant her a title shot. Ava obliged, confirming that Vice would problem Perez for the title at Heatwave.
Elsewhere on NXT Heatwave, Kelani Jordan will defend the Ladies’s NXT North American Championship towards Sol Ruca. This can mark Jordan’s third total title protection, having retained the title in current bouts towards Michin and Izzi Dame.
For Ruca, this can mark her second shot on the Ladies’s NXT North American Championship. She beforehand competed within the six-woman ladder match to find out the inaugural Ladies’s NXT North American Champion, an honor that was, in fact, claimed by Kelani Jordan.
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AEW Provides Two Matches To Forbidden Door Pre-Present
On June 30, All Elite Wrestling collaborates with NJPW to carry forth the third annual Forbidden Door pay-per-view. AEW’s girls’s division will probably be represented throughout 4 matches, two of that are for championships. Per AEW President Tony Khan, two non-title matches have lately been added as nicely.
Coming off her beautiful betrayal of Willow Nightingale, Kris Statlander will sq. off towards her former buddy in a tag group bout on the Forbidden Door pre-show. Whereas Statlander will companion with former Surprise of STARDOM Champion Momo Watanabe, Nightingale has recruited former World of STARDOM Champion Tam Nakano.
Elsewhere on the pre-show, Saraya will face Mariah Might within the opening spherical of the Ladies’s Owen Hart Basis match. Might, together with Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa, picked up a victory over Saraya, Anna Jay, and Harley Cameron on this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite. Now, Might and Saraya will pivot their consideration to singles competitors, with the goal of advancing nearer to the Owen Hart Cup.
On the primary present of Forbidden Door, Toni Storm will defend the AEW Ladies’s Championship towards Mina Shirakawa. In the meantime, TBS Champion Mercedes Mone will battle NJPW STRONG Ladies’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer in a title-for-title match,
RELATED: Saraya: Toni Storm Is One Of The Greatest Issues In AEW, She F*cking Did That
Shayna Baszler Returns To Bloodsport
July 2024 marks a novel month for WWE, as not one, not two, however three of its superstars will make a journey by the forbidden door, or reasonably prohibited portal.
Earlier this month, IYO SKY confirmed she’d be returning to Japan for a dream match towards fellow former World of STARDOM Champion, Utami Hayashishita, at Marigold’s Summer season Future occasion. Former WWE Champion AJ Types will comply with in a similar way, as he debuts for Professional Wrestling NOAH in a match towards Noamichi Marufuji on July 13. Two weeks later, Shayna Baszler will mark her second look for Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport.
Information on the latter emerged earlier this week in a tweet posted by Josh Barnett himself.
“For her, the ‘debut’ in Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport was not that however the truth is her moving into the ring she was solid from – the crucible that has made her a champion in MMA and Professional Wrestling. This July, she returns to her birthplace to as soon as once more reign in blood and glory. “The Queen of Spades” Shayna Baszler returns to Josh Barnett’s: Bloodsport,” Barnett wrote.
As of now, there isn’t any phrase on who Baszler’s opponent for Bloodsport XI will probably be. Throughout her earlier outing, Baszler defeated TNA Knockouts Tag Workforce Champion Masha Slamovich.
RELATED: Nick Khan, CM Punk, & Extra WWE Superstars Attend Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport X
INTERVIEWS
Former FWA Ladies’s Champion Tarlee spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about her resolution to maneuver to Melbourne, her in-ring celebration with former WWE Ladies’s Champion Victoria on the HER occasion, being in her “Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne” period, bouncing again from a pinched nerve in her again, and extra.
Former Dreamwave Ladies’s Champion Brittnie Books joined MuscleManMalcolm to debate the current leg harm she sustained, her aim to signal with WWE, successful a championship at 16 years previous, her expertise working at Dreamwave Wrestling, and extra.
Artist of STARDOM Champion Mina Shirakawa appeared on Grapsody to speak about her upcoming title match towards AEW Ladies’s Champion Toni Storm, her relationship with Mariah Might, her plans to celebration in New York, aspirations to win the IWGP Ladies’s Championship, and extra.
“The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo chatted with DailyDDT about her 2024 return to All Elite Wrestling, wrestling Thunder Rosa on the AEW Double or Nothing pre-show, desirous to earn a fundamental occasion spot, her need to win extra championship gold, and extra.
