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Women’s IC title match, Americano vs. Americano set for next WWE Raw

Posted on by Bryan Rose

The Women’s Intercontinental title will be on the line next week.

Bayley won the gauntlet match on Raw, earning the championship match against AJ Lee next week when Raw heads to San Antonio. The finish of the match saw Asuka trap Bayley with the Asuka lock, but Bayley managed to escape and countered with the rose plant. Other competitors in the match included Ivy Nile, Raquel Rodriguez, Lyra Valykria, and IYO SKY.

On last week’s Raw, Lee celebrated her title win that took place at Elimination Chamber but also took time to throw out the challenge for anyone in the locker room to face her, saying that the next time she steps in the ring it will be to defend the title. Multiple talent backstage expressed interest in challenging AJ, setting up the gauntlet match.

The two Americanos will meet next week when the Original El Grande Americano (Chad Gable) will meet the second El Grande Americano (Ludwig Kaiser). On this week’s show, the first Americano was set to challenge Penta for the IC title but ran into Danhausen. Much like his meeting with Dominik Mysterio, Danhausen didn’t take being rejected by Americano well and put a curse on him as the second Americano’s henchmen were nearby. When it came time for the title match, the second Americano emerged to take the original’s spot. Despite the ploy, it was all for nothing as Penta successfully defended the title.

Here is the updated lineup for next week’s Raw:

WWE Raw (March 16):

  • Roman Reigns will appear
  • Brock Lesnar will appear
  • Women’s Intercontinental title: AJ Lee defends against Bayley

Number one contender’s gauntlet match part of next week’s WWE Raw lineup

Posted on by Bryan Rose

The next contender for the Women’s Intercontinental title will be set on next week’s Raw.

New champion AJ Lee came out on Monday and issued an open challenge for anyone in the back to challenge her next, saying the next time she was in the ring, it would be to defend the title. Throughout the night Raquel Rodriguez, Bayley, Lyra Valkyria, and IYO SKY all made it clear they wanted the shot. Later in the night, it was confirmed that those four women, Asuka, and Ivy Nile would compete in a gauntlet match to determine Lee’s next challenger.

Lee won the title at Elimination Chamber this past Saturday, submitting Becky Lynch who didn’t appear on Monday’s show.

Meanwhile, Oba Femi will face Rusev in a battle of behemoths. After the two had a staredown last week, Rusev came to the ring this week and challenged Femi, who came out. The two had a brawl but it was Femi who emerged as the winner of their battle after he laid out Rusev with a chokeslam.

WWE Raw (March 9)

  • Women’s Intercontinental title number one contender’s gauntlet match: Raquel Rodriguez vs. Bayley vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. IYO SKY vs. Asuka vs. Ivy Nile
  • Oba Femi vs. Rusev

AJ Lee wins Women’s Intercontinental title at WWE Elimination Chamber

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For the first time in over a decade, AJ Lee is a champion in WWE once again.

Lee defeated Becky Lynch at Saturday’s Elimination Chamber event to win the Women’s Intercontinental Championship for the first time. The two went to battle and during the course of the match the referee was knocked down, leading Lynch to visually tap out to the Black Widow. The match managed to continue until Lynch landed head first on an exposed turnbuckle. Lee followed that up with the Black Widow submission once again to score the submission victory.

Since returning to WWE last fall, Lee has been feuding sporadically with Lynch. The two squared off in a mixed tag team match at Wrestlepalooza, with Lee and CM Punk emerging victorious over Lynch and Seth Rollins. Lee also submitted Lynch at WarGames two months later.

Lee returned to TV following the Royal Rumble and issued the challenge to Lynch, who initally balked at the idea before eventually agreeing. Lynch later jumped Lee from behind as she was helping Maxxine Dupri to the back, posting Lee into a nearby turnbuckle.

Women’s Intercontinental title match booked for next week’s WWE Raw

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A match for the Women’s Intercontinental title is set for next week’s Raw.

In a promo segment during Raw, Valkyria said she appreciated Bayley helping her out against Raquel Rodriguez and Liv Morgan last week, but she needs to stand on her own two feet as champion. After mentioning her only loss as champion so far was against Bayley in a non-title match, she will put the title on the line next week in Minneapolis.

Seth Rollins will also make his return to Raw next week. He was last seen on Friday’s SmackDown signing the contract for the three-way match between Roman Reigns and CM Punk that will headline WrestleMania Saturday, none too pleased to find out that Punk would be getting his WrestleMania main event thanks to Paul Heyman.

El Grande Americano will also be returning to action. Chad Gable told Adam Pearce backstage during Raw that he was still sick, handing him a doctor’s note. However, he changed his tune when he found out next week’s Raw would be in his hometown. Pearce said that Gable couldn’t compete, but El Grande Americano would be in action.

Here is the card for next week’s Raw:

  • Women’s Intercontinental title: Lyra Valkyria defends against Bayley
  • Seth Rollins returns
  • El Grande Americano returns to action

WWE Women’s Intercontinental title tournament finals set

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The finals to crown the first-ever Women’s Intercontinental Champion are now set.

Lyra Valkyria and Dakota Kai advanced to the finals on Monday’s Raw after both won their semifinal matches. They will meet in two weeks on the January 13 edition of Raw, which moves to Netflix starting next week.

The first match in the semifinals saw Kai defeat Zoey Stark with a fireman’s carry and pele kick. In the second semifinal, Valkyria defeated Kai’s Damage CTRL teammate IYO SKY after countering a roll-up.

Kai was the first to advance out of the first round, defeating Katana Chance and Shayna Baszler. SKY ended up replacing Kairi Sane, who was attacked backstage by the Pure Fusion Collective, putting her out of action. SKY would go on to defeat Alba Fyre and Natalya to make it to the next round.

Prior to SKY’s match on Monday, Kai and SKY talked to one another backstage, hoping to meet each other in the finals of the tournament.

The first-ever Women’s United States Champion was crowned at Saturday Night’s Main Event earlier this month, with Chelsea Green becoming the inaugural champion.

WWE talking about adding women’s Intercontinental, US titles

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More titles could be coming to WWE.

The promotion is discussing adding women’s midcard championships for Raw and SmackDown, our own Dave Meltzer has confirmed.

Over the weekend, a social media post by @hashtagPWN stated that the plan is to create women’s Intercontinental and United States belts for the main roster. Fightful Select later reported that the idea was being discussed but images that had spread on social media were AI art and not the actual designs.

Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez addressed the potential new titles on the most recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio.

“Someone’s going to criticize me because I don’t know who first reported it (Editor’s note: It was @hashtagPWN & then Fightful). I know it was reported earlier today because somebody texted me and just goes ‘It’s being reported out there that they are going to create women’s US and Intercontinental titles.’ And I asked and I was basically told that that is, in fact, what is being talked about. So, there you go. Two more championships, one on each brand,” Meltzer said.

WWE’s NXT brand just introduced a women’s midcard title last month. Kelani Jordan became the inaugural NXT Women’s North American Champion at Battleground after winning a six-way ladder match. She has since successfully defended the belt against Sol Ruca at yesterday’s Heatwave in Toronto.