On October 2, 2019, All Elite Wrestling aired the first episode of their new weekly wrestling program, Dynamite, scheduled for Wednesday nights, starting at 8 p.m. EST. On the same day, having already moved WWE NXT to the USA Network for half of the two-hour show, WWE debuted the first two-hour NXT episode for the…
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Dakota Kai joins the No. 1 Contender’s Ladder Match
Dakota Kai is the sixth and final competitor in the upcoming Number One Contender’s Ladder Match. On tonight’s episode of NXT, Kai, Xia Li, Kayden Carter, Aliyah, Shotzi Blackheart, and Deonna Purrazzo competed in the Second Chance Gauntlet Match for the last spot. Straight away, Blackheart was the star of the match. First, she eliminated Purrazzo….
Rhea Ripley confronts Charlotte Flair on WWE Raw
As Charlotte Flair prepared to announce who she would challenge at WrestleMania, she was greeted by a surprise guest, Rhea Ripley. Ever since she won the women’s Royal Rumble match last weekend, everyone has been trying to predict who Charlotte will use her title shot on. Tonight, she was supposed to reveal who her opponent…
NXT Women’s Championship reportedly to remove gender
According to Mike Johnson at PWInsider, WWE has made the decision to call the NXT Women’s Championship simply the NXT Championship. This move comes in the same week that Becky Lynch spoke about gender specificity on WWE Backstage. “The Man” thinks it should be no longer referred to as the women’s division because it has been…
Evolution Check-up: Women’s wrestling stats for November weekly shows
For the month of October, we proved that we were capable of looking behind the veil and pay attention to the supposed women’s revolution. It was clear: the numbers didn’t support the claims and promise of equality. So, we calculated November stats. And just like October, during November, week-after-week, it seems the women are getting…
The Best Women’s Wrestler of the 2010s: Io Shirai
2019 is quickly coming to an end. Over the next few weeks, we would like to take a look back at the top moments in women’s wrestling this year, as well as this decade. With that said, there aren’t many women —or men for that matter— who have accomplished as much as Io Shirai in the…