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The latest news cites that Evolution's tickets sales are away from record-breaking! Far, far away!
We don't have a build up! We don't have surprises! It's so enigmatic that it's mysterious card, is not drawing an interest. We have 5 matches, one tag team involving Legends, 4 announced title matches, as we are waiting for the UK Women's belt booking for the show, battle royal! Is this the historic PPV? Where are the women from the past, who helped WWE's division to reach to that PPV? Beth, Melina, Michelle McCool (there are rumors that she will be involved, somehow)?
When you have that kind of show you need more build ups and now we have several storylines, that kind of evolving a weeks prior the show. Maybe the most serious rivalry for Evolution is between Charlotte and Becky Lynch.
I am really confused and I really want to see more surprises, but it looks like WWE's bag of surprises is almost empty!
But let us see what we actually have almost two weeks, 12 days prior the event:
RAW WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
That was the quickest build up for a rivalry these days! We heard rumors and now the rumors are truth!
I don't know who needed this match the most? Ronada Rousey or Nikki Bella? (So, many questions). Rousey's evolution is slow. She might be thankful that she had to work with Alexa Bliss and most importantly with Ruby Riott, who helped her to elevate her career in RAW! I still can't feel her as a part of WWE! She is still sort of outsider and her relationships with the rest of the division look so fake, so unreal. As long as we know, the rest of the women in WWE are not 100% comfortable with Rousey messing around. But her segment with the Bellas, this week was nice ('The only door you have ever knock down is the door of John Cena's bedroom!' - GOLDen line, I love it).
The Bella Twins needs the match and that rivalry more than ever. Especially Nikki, who were sidelined, by Brie, who received several nice rivalries at SmackDown Live against Maryse and Zelina Vega! Nikki needed that match the most and she got it, without doing anything special to receive that opportunity. Without #1 Contender's fight (against Riott for example), without some single action. She just got it as award for a handicap tag team post-match attack on Rousey! Is that fair? No. We are talking about pushing WWE's favorite twins against the Golden eggs Hen Rousey!
I am curious how this will end!
THE TAG TEAM MATCH
I love Lita and Trish Stratus! I grew up with them as a women's wrestling fan and I enjoy watching their classic videos. I love them as tag team, and I mostly love them as a rivals. They are part of the engine that bring the Evolution! They are legacy, history and two of the most iconic (for real) Superstars, that gave so much to WWE's women's division and WWE Universe.
Mickie James and Alexa Bliss!
I always have that feeling that James is somehow misplaced in RAW! She needs more rivalries, but when she steps in the ring it's like time-line collapse. She is somehow out of her time and her opportunities are somehow limited, when you have actual Superstars like Sasha Banks, Bayley, Nia Jax, Ember Moon around... I have serious doubts that she might never win a title again and that she accomplished what she was supposed to accomplish. I think that even if tomorrow she left WWE and return to Impact, she will not shine bright as before. NO! I respect her! For me she is one of the greatest female wrestlers of all-times! Her match against Trish at WM 22 was epic! Her rivalries against Melina , Beth Phoenix, Lita, Victoria and Lay-Cool were significant! But those days are over! Now like it or not she is like a stepping stone for the rest of the girls. But this match against her old fellow then-Divas, might bring some vitality to her career!
Bliss? Bliss is Bliss, she will do her things, she will play her games and this is one big opportunity for her to face these legends and to work with one as a partner!
NXT WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Some fans are not happy, facts are facts: Kairi Sane and Shayna Baszler are working great together. They push each other's limits to the end of the possibilities and Baszler deserve her rematch, as well! Actually I feel Shayna more relevant to WWE than Rousey. Maybe, because she has more in-ring experience than her fellow MMA Horsewoman.
I can't predict what will happen! I just hope to see Marina Shafir and Jessamyne Duke debuting and... It sounds crazy, but I don't mind seeing Baszler as the first two-time NXT Women's Champion (then dropping it to Io Shirai). I hope to see the usual high quality and nice packaged match.
ANOTHER BATTLE ROYAL
'Lazy' is the word that came up to my mind thinking about that match!
This year was full of Historical Battle Royals in different forms, shapes and sizes! The stipulation is always one and the same - The Winner will receive a title shot, somewhere in the near future and nothing unusual!
Battle Royals are great way to put your women's divisions on display. Or behind the storyline: To keep them busy! To give them some work to do, not just sitting in the locker room! I hope that they will add more names to this one, like Zelina Vega, some NXT Superstars like LeRae, Kai, Cross, Evans, Aliyah and Purrazzo (why not my sweetheart Vanessa Borne?).
But whoever they add even if they put more Alumni, next to Torrie Wilson (I am not that impressed with her 'return'), they will not change the general true about it: It's just another Battle Royal, eventually messy as the 'legendary' Miss WrestleMania Fiasco!
And if they book a legend or other alumna, it will be, kind of waste of talent, eventually (depends who they will bring back for the 'historic' match)!
LAST WOMAN STANDING IN A SMACK DOWN WOMEN'S TITLE CLASH
I left the best two for dessert!
Actually I am kind of tired of this rivalry and I want the blue brand creatives to move forward! No, it's great as a plan, but that 'dead end matches' they are kind of - exhausting and all that post-match, backstage brawls and ambushes - I got tired of them!
I am prying this to end at Evolution and i am expecting to see great, technical match from these two, that will overshadow Raw Women's Poster-Childs Title match! Really hoping for a great finale of these rivalry, because the fire in it is on it's ending point! Do not extend it, please, WWE!
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THE FINAL BATTLE: JAPAN VS. AUSTRALIA
Yes!
Io Shirai will face Toni Storm at the final! The final that will take place at Evolution and for me is one of the three matches you need to watch at any cost: the other two are SD Women's Championship and NXT Women's title match. Eventually the WWE NXT UK Women's belt will be put in some great match as well, I hope! I even hope to see Triple Threat or Fatal-4-Way in there, to make some difference in the title matches pictures (all of them one-on-one)!
But back on MYC II!
This years final will be great, becaus both women are great! I can't predict who will win at this point, because both Shirai and Storm desereve it... But Toni has more chances to become a Champion in WWE, (in UK brand), while for Io that might be her biggest entrance in WWE NXT! So, secretly I hope it would be Shirai, but part of me don't mind to see Toni Storm as a winner.
Actually Storm eliminated the other two Japanese sensations in this year's edition of the Tournament - Hiroyo Matsumoto and the legend Meiko Satomura, so eventually she is ready for Io Shirai as well (as long as we know WWE booked Shirai in a losing end in her NXT Live debut, so they are not building her as a total powerhouse, like Asuka)!
I can't hardly wait for this one!
