Apparently there has been backstage talk within WWE about having the women headline an upcoming WWE Network Special (PPV), possibly the way Sasha Banks and Bayley did back in NXT.
If you recalled, Sasha Banks faced Bayley in a 30 minute Ironwomen match back at NXT Takeover: Respect on October 7th, 2015. The match received rave reviews and company officials were high on the match.
As of this writing, there is no talk on exactly when the company would do it. It’s still in the early stages of discussion.
Yeah, but it's bound to happen the way they're going. Sasha is the last person seen in the Raw intro now, the women open Raw half the time now. They've clearly been getting a huge emphasis on tv and it's only a matter of time before they shove them into the main event of some B PPV so that Stephanie can brag about how she's singlehandedly brought empowerment to the world of sports entertainment.
The day that happens, I can tell you with absolute certainly that I'll be tuning out after the Universal Championship match.
As long as the match is built to well fine. When it happened in NXT the girls had earned it and proved to be the one of the main draws. So doubt that happens with the way raw's women are booked
It definitely going to happen. They'll market the PPV the same way they always do, the women will just go on last and then they'll tout how the women main evented after the fact. They'll never say our main event this Sunday is for the women's championship which kind of makes it a hollow achievement.
As long as the match/feud is worth main eventing, then I wont have a problem with it. Don't just have them main event to attract attention without having them earn it. WWE doesnt always get it right, look at the main event at wrestlemania 32, that had to be the worst WM, and the worst main event I've seen in my life.
My sources have informed me that the plan is Becky Lynch vs Eva Marie for the title. Eva Marie is expected to go over after 3 minutes to begin her planned 5 year long title run.
I think it's too soon for something like that. Back in NXT Bayley vs Sasha completely earned the main event spot and no one was mad. The last thing I'd wanna see is people moaning about SJW bullshit because it happened too early on the main roster.
I mean, it's been clear they wanted to since NXT did it pretty successfully last year, but the current presentation on Raw doesn't give me much hope.
Also, is this just the Raw women headlining a PPV? If they want to make it a big deal, pit the Raw champ vs the Smackdown champ and make it this huge inter-promotional thing, otherwise it's just Raw trying to get itself over and failing again.
Raw gets the Cruiserweights, the headline women, the Universe (which is bigger than the World) and probably the WrestleMania main event, too.
They might as well go all out and do a Charlotte vs Bayley for the title at the main event of a RAW PPV. The Women's title is probably the most relevant title by default and we'll get a good match out of it.
This will no doubt happen one day on a vanilla ppv where the buyrate wouldn't change regardless of who is in the ME in order to obtain that publicity and as WWE booking has had a fascination with since 2014 "set a record" (even though in actuality Moolah with Vince Sr. headlined some New York shows which given NY/The Garden was the bread and butter back then: it is the closest comp time could have).
First thing that popped out at me was 'Network Special'. So it could be something like a televised house show or a show like 'Roadblock' where they can make a big deal out of it without it being an actual PPV. If anything else, it could be used to test the waters on how it would draw on the main roster before they do it on an actual PPV & risk tons of casuals tuning out before the main event.
If it's gonna happen soon, that'll be the trigger.
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