The WWE Ladies’s Intercontinental Championship event kicks off. The TBS & AEW Ladies’s Championships will probably be defended. Gabby Forza chats with WrestleZone and extra! Let’s break it down on this week’s version of Ladies’s Wrestling Wrap-Up!
WWE Ladies’s United States Title Tourney Continues, Whereas Ladies’s IC Tourney Begins
Inside a matter of weeks, two new girls’s champions will probably be topped in WWE. Final month, the corporate first introduced the introduction of the Ladies’s United States Championship, unique to the SmackDown model. Shortly thereafter, WWE Uncooked Basic Supervisor Adam Pearce unveiled the Ladies’s Intercontinental Championship quickly coming to the pink model.
To date, three girls have solidified their spots within the Ladies’s U.S. title event semi-finals, whereas one has superior within the Ladies’s Intercontinental Championship event. The latter event started on the November 15 episode of SmackDown, with “The Function Mannequin” Bayley defeating B-Fab and Candice LeRae. The next week, Cheslea Inexperienced moved on a win over Bianca Belair and Blair Davenport, although the previous notably left the ring after seeing her tag staff accomplice Jade Cargill laid out on high of a automotive. Most just lately, Michin beat Piper Niven and Lash Legend within the third opening spherical matchup.
The remaining semi-finals place will both by crammed Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, or Elektra Lopez, who’re slated to face off in a triple risk on SmackDown this week.
Elsewhere on WWE Uncooked, Harm CTRL’s Dakota Kai turned the primary advancer within the Ladies’s Intercontinental Championship event with a victory over Shayna Baszler and Katana Likelihood. Trying forward, she’s going to both face Zoey Stark, Raquel Rodriguez, or Kayden Carter within the semi-finals. The event will proceed subsequent week when Lyra Valkyria and Zelina Vega and Ivy Nile battle in a quarterfinals contest from the opposite aspect of the brackets.
As of now, it stays unknown when precisely WWE will crown the Ladies’s Intercontinental Champion. WWE’s inaugural Ladies’s United States Champion, nonetheless, will take their throne at Saturday Evening’s Essential Occasion, scheduled for December 14.
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TBS & AEW Ladies’s Titles To Defended
Over in All Elite Wrestling, Mariah Could will quickly defend her AEW Ladies’s Championship towards her “greatest good friend” Mina Shirakawa. In the meantime, TBS Champion Mercedes Mone will lay her title on the road towards the fiery Anna Jay.
At AEW All In, Mariah Could defeated her former good friend Toni Storm, and in doing so, took possession of the AEW Ladies’s World Championship. After seeing Could flip her again on Storm, Mina Shirakawa felt that she too would ultimately face the identical destiny. At AEW Full Gear, Shirakawa’s intestine proved to be proper, as Could tried to smash a champagne bottle over her head from behind. Shirakawa, nonetheless, noticed it coming and speared by means of a desk off the stage.
Now, the previous Goddesses of STARDOM Champions will face off towards one another at AEW Winter Is Coming, with Could’s AEW Ladies’s Championship on the road.
Forward of this title match, Could appeared on this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, vowing to make Shirakawa “work.” In response, Shirakawa handed over a champagne bottle and challenged Could to strike her with it to her face, as a substitute of behind her again.
Elsewhere on Dynamite, Anna Jay defeated Penelope Ford in singles motion, then known as out TBS Champion Mercedes Mone. Mone, nonetheless, insisted that Jay come again in ten years after she’d “truly performed one thing within the enterprise.”
Unamused by the remark, Jay slapped Mone, prompting her to retreat and declare that they’d combat on “CEO” time. Shortly after, AEW confirmed Mone vs. Jay for the TBS Championship at AEW Dynamite: Vacation Bash on November 18.
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NXT Deadline
The cardboard for WWE NXT Deadline is about, with one Ladies’s Iron Survivor Problem and a notable Underground match pitting two of NXT’s hardest girls towards one another.
In latest weeks, the likes of Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer, Sol Ruca, and Zaria cemented their spots within the 2024 Ladies’s Iron Survivor Problem. With one slot remaining, 4 girls battled in a Final Likelihood qualifying match on this week’s episode of NXT — Cora Jade, Jaida Parker, Wren Sinclair, and Kelani Jordan.
Parker gave the impression to be closing in on victory when she arrange Jordan within the nook for springboard seated senton. Lola Vice had different plans, although, as she tried to shock Parker with a spinning backfist on the apron. Parker in the end dodged Vice’s line of fireplace, inflicting Sinclair to be hit with it as a substitute and collapse onto Jade, particularly in a pinning place. Earlier than Parker might cease the referee’s rely of three, Vice pulled her to the skin. As such, Sinclair claimed the ultimate spot within the Ladies’s Iron Survivor Problem.
Fuming from the loss, Parker challenged Lola Vice for an NXT Underground, which NXT Basic Supervisor Ava penciled in for NXT Deadline. This announcement prompted the return of Vice, who vowed to knock Parker out. In response, Parker tossed her brick towards Vice, knocking to the bottom with a again elbow.
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INTERVIEWS
“Your Homie The Gnomie” Gabby Forza spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about her latest honeymoon in Jamaica, her and Bulk Bronson’s encounters with B3cca and Aaron Rourke at Past, the announcement of Rourke’s WWE ID signing, reaching her one hundredth skilled wrestling match, her upcoming return to Rebellion, favourite Christmas traditions and movie, and extra.
“The Brickhouse” Kamille chatted with MuscleManMalcolm about her expertise at WrestleCade, her latest cut up with TBS Champion Mercedes Mone, probably going after her title, her order at Waffle Home, and extra.
Former WWE Divas Champion Layla appeared on the No Identify Wrestling Podcast to focus on the potential of renewing LayCool with Michelle McCool, her journey by means of WWE Diva Search, serving as a mentor for Kaval in NXT, her ideas on right now’s girls in WWE, successful the Divas Championship, and extra.
WWE NXT star Jaida Parker joined Busted Open After Darkish to speak about her rocky relationship with Lola Vice, shedding the Final Likelihood Iron Survivor Problem qualifier, her NXT Underground match towards Vice, her ideas on NXT Ladies’s Champion Roxanne Perez, and extra.
Former ROH Ladies’s Champion Mercedes Martinez speak with the Ropes N Riffs Podcast about her 24-year journey in wrestling, the importance of entrance music, the evolution of her themes, the collaborative course of of making tag staff themes, and the essential function of timing in wrestling music, and extra.
WWE Uncooked star Raquel Rodriguez spoke with The Takedown on SI in regards to the Ladies’s WarGames match at Survivor Sequence, her earlier contemplation of retiring, her friendship with WWE Ladies’s World Champion Liv Morgan, her absence from WWE tv, and extra.
