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Headline: WWE “Investigating” Becky Lynch Attacking Charlotte Flair
Although it doesn’t really feel like it, we are less than one week away from WWE’s
first-ever all-women’s PPV Evolution.
It had been reported that ticket sales for the show were slow, but the announcement of
Ronda Rousey vs. Nikki Bella sparked a huge surge in interest and it’s now likely going
to sell out.
Also on the card will be the finals of the Mae Young Classic, a battle royal for a title
shot, Trish Stratus and Lita vs. Alexa Bliss and Mickie James, Kairi Sane vs. Shayna Baszler
- and Becky Lynch defending her Smackdown Women’s Championship against Charlotte Flair
in a last woman standing match.
And things in the Flair and Lynch feud certainly heated up over the weekend when Flair was
down at the NXT Performance Centre to presumably give an inspirational speech to the developmental
trainees - and Becky Balboa ran in to attack Charlotte.
The footage of this attack will likely be shown on Smackdown Live this week to hype
up their match on Sunday, as it’s been announced that WWE are “investigating the matter”.
Although they don’t need to ask Becky about her thoughts on the incident as she posted
on Twitter, “Investigate?
You dopes better call Mulder and Scully then because the champ is out of this world.”
Things are getting strange and I’m starting to worry, this could be a case for Mulder
and Scully.
Fingers crossed this leads to that X-Files/WWE crossover, you know like when Frank Drebin
investigated the Undertaker mystery at Summerslam 1994.
Oh like you all wouldn’t enjoy that!
Headline: Ronda Rousey and Nikki Bella Twitter Spats
But the bigger match on the card, at least in the eyes of Vince McMahon, is the Raw Women’s
Championship match between Ronda Rousey and Nikki Bella.
It was reported last week that Rousey wrote most of her promo on Raw, where she accused
Nikki Bella of only getting ahead in WWE because of her relationship with John Cena, and The
Baddest Woman on the Planet has been channeling that into her Twitter and Instagram posts.
It started off innocently enough, with Ronda tweeting a tale of the tape image of the pair
- which highlights how not only is Ronda younger and slightly taller with a better win record
- but Nikki hasn’t won a singles match since she beat Carmella at TLC 2016.
Does anyone remember that match or feud?
Nikki replied to this by pointing out, “Wow 24 matches sick 👍🏼 337 matches, runs
2 companies, has two hit shows plus a successful YouTube channel, been making you more famous
all week AND been training hard to kick your a** at Evolution...
hhhhmmm sure you aren’t the #DNB ?” You can tell things are getting more personal,
Nikki had to self censor herself.
Also no one tell her Total Divas just posted a historic low rating last week.
Ronda clearly took some of this to heart - because she responded on Instagram where she’s not
hindered by a character limit!
“You know someone typing the title “Producer” next to your name in the credits doesn’t
make you some kind of god.
The extent of your involvement in @totalbellas and @totaldivas is you let them film you act
like idiots whenever they want and in exchange they give you fancy titles in the credits.
Whoopidy-f-n-doo.”
Blimey, even Ronda is getting in on the self censoring act!
“And If having a “successful” YouTube channel makes it to your short list of accomplishments,
you’re not doing near as well as you imagine.”
You know, that’s kind of hurtful, Ronda.
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Headline: Vince McMahon Loves Ronda’s Judo Throws
While we don’t know how Vince McMahon feels about Ronda’s social media usage, Rajah
are reporting that he, “loves it when Ronda Rousey manhandles and judo throws smaller
men around.”
Umm, yeah, read into that what you will.
Headline: WrestleMania 35 Plans Scrapped?
And his love for Ronda reportedly guaranteed her a spot in the main event slot of WrestleMania
35.
Since her debut at the Royal Rumble earlier this year, it had been heavily reported that
the plan for next year’s Mania would be Ronda vs. Charlotte Flair, and the pair would
be the first women ever to ever headline the biggest show of the year.
However according to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, “There is
no WrestleMania main event locked in.
Rousey vs. Charlotte was heavily talked about a few months back and it’s not impossible,
but Charlotte has been hurt by how the Lynch angle has played out.”
As we’ve all seen by the way WWE have presented the Lynch and Flair storyline, Charlotte is
supposed to be the valliant babyface who is standing up to her former best friend and
bully Becky.
However the crowd reaction has been very different - with the fans cheering loudly for Becky
and booing Flair.
It was even reported by one Twitter user that her anti-Flair sign was removed by security
at Hell in a Cell.
But as Meltzer notes, it could still happen as, “in this world where the fan reactions
don’t really matter, if that’s what Vince really wants, that’s what it’ll be.”
One other potential spanner in the Rousey and Flair Mania main event is the reports
of Charlotte’s ex husband Riki Paul Johnson suing the Flair family for $5 million for
defamation of character - where he has also claimed he has dashboard footage of Charlotte
using “disparaging and racist comments being directed at the Afro-American community in
Chapel Hill, NC.”
Meltzer adds that currently there are also no Mania plan for Roman Reigns, although he
is less likely to get the main event of WrestleMania 35 now that Ronda is around.
However if the rumours of The Rock returning for the Royal Rumble and a match against Reigns
at Mania are true, that could all change.
He also reports there is no end goal for The Shield's feud with Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler
and Drew McIntyre, though an Ambrose heel turn was planned for earlier this year and
could still play out.
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