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Mixed Match Challenge Announcement Last month, WWE announced their new show Mixed
Match Challenge, an intergender tag tournament spread over 12 episodes, which will start
airing on Facebook Watch from Tuesday 16th January.
And the first intergender tag team combination has been announced: 6 foot 8 inches tall Monster
Among Men Braun Strowman will partner with the Five Feet of Fury Alexa Bliss.
Braun then posted on Instagram in celebration: “@alexa_bliss_wwe_ you’re safe in my arms
little one and when you’re ready point me in the direction pull the trigger and let
me do what I do best!!!!!!
#BraunSmash #GetTheseHands #wwemmc” I do hope they wear matching ring gear.
Alexa Bliss has cosplayed as Harley Quinn in the past, so maybe Braun could dress as
another DC superhe-OH GOD, NO.
WHAT AM I SUGGESTING!
At least one person took against the pairing, though, with Alexa’s best friend forever
Nia Jax posting: “Really @RealKurtAngle why do you hate me?!
First you take out @real1 & then you do this!?!
The people wanted Braun & Nia....not cool Kurt...NOT COOL!!
Btw...Enzo is feeling better, my chicken soup works wonders sexually suggestive emoji faces”
MAYBE NOW YOU KNOW WHAT REJECTION FEELS LIKE, NI-
Enzo Amore Sent Home From Raw Speaking of Enzo Amore, his ‘flu’ storyline
on this week’s Raw appears to have been a shoot.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, both Enzo and Braun had to miss Raw live events
over the last week due to illness, with Strowman missing the last three live events of 2017.
Usually in WWE, wrestlers work through being sick like this, so both men must’ve been
very unwell to get sent home.
But while Strowman was able to return to the ring for Monday’s episode of Raw, Enzo was
turned away despite wanting to compete.
According to Enzo’s Instagram post, he did everything he could to recover from the flu
in time for Raw, including checking himself into hospital and missing P Diddy’s New
Year’s Eve Party in Miami.
Tell me about it!
I couldn’t go to that either.
Because I wasn’t invited.
But Amore was so determined to get to Raw to defend his Cruiserweight title against
Cedric Alexander, he “ripped that [IV Drip] right out of” his arm, checked himself out
of the hospital against medical advice and drove to Raw at the American Airlines Arena
to have his match because he “don’t care what doctors say!”
Turns out, though, WWE doctors do.
“Doctors told me I’m not allowed in the arena.
Cedric Alexander - this is the luckiest day of your life!”
PWInsider have corroborated the story, reporting that “Although Amore pushed that he be allowed
to compete, WWE officials informed him they were not going to let him perform sick and
ordered him to leave the venue and return to his hotel.”
And Raw isn’t the only thing Enzo’s been pulled from.
He missed Tuesday’s episode of 205 Live, and Kurt Angle has now announced:
“@real1 has the flu and thus I must replace him in the Mixed Match Challenge.
#WWEMMC” Hopefully another virus outbreak in the Raw
locker room, like the one that took out Roman Reigns, Bo Dallas and Bray Wyatt in October,
can be avoided - as Wrestling Inc are reporting that in addition to Enzo and Braun, “many
other wrestlers were sick backstage and several were given an IV.”
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