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Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis, and whoah - that was a
close one.
Mixed Match Challenge Details Because for a minute there, I thought I wouldn’t
be able to watch WWE’s new Mixed Match Challenge show!
I’m rooting for you…
I’m not going to have my emotions played with anymore.
I’m now best friends with Alexa.
As Mixed Match Challenge has been acquired by Facebook, the tournament will play out
over 12 episodes every Tuesday after Smackdown on Facebook Watch - which is the social media
site’s video on-demand service.
But Facebook Watch is currently only available in the United States, meaning us limeys here
in the U.K. wouldn’t be able to see the show.
Well, good news - because The Mirror has revealed Mixed Match Challenge will air on the WWE
Network for UK fans.
Now that all the teams have been announced through kayfabe ruining backstage skits, WWE
have revealed the official bracket for the tournament - where Raw and Smackdown teams
will face each other in the first round, the winners compete in a second, a 2nd chance
team is readded in the semi-finals via fan vote, and then the finals will see the last
two teams have to knock a cedar stick off the cross rods, while the twig-runners dash
back and forth until the pinecone burns out and the umpire calls ‘hotbox’.
Never mind mixed match challenge feuds, though?
What about good old fashioned single gender rivalries?
Heat Between Liv Morgan, Alexa Bliss & Nia Jax?
During this week’s Smackdown, Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss tweeted:
“Pink pigtails ... where have I seen that before ? SARCASTIC DETECTIVE FACE BECAUSE
I ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER - IT WAS ME, I’VE SEEN IT ON ME BEFORE FACE EMOJI”
Which was presumably in reference to Liv Morgan sporting pink pigtails at ringside for the
Ruby Riott vs Becky Lynch match - an observation Morgan quickly refuted:
“No where cause they’re purple OH WE’RE GOING TO DO THIS, ARE WE?
BRING IT KISS FACE EMOJI” Alexa’s real-life best friend and breaker
of my heart Nia Jax then took Alexa’s hot tag:
“Don’t trip bestie, you’re the top of the mountain, imitation is bound to happen.
You are untouchable with what you have done, let her have the scraps 🤣”
Which tee-d up Liv for the KO punch.
Morgan used to date Enzo Amore [IMAGE], before revealing she had broken up with him last
September: “Me knowing that I'm single and nobody cheating
on me” All context for her reply to Nia, who’s
currently in a romantic storyline with Enzo on Raw:
“Uhhhh Nia, I actually think YOU want MY scraps TORU YANO EMOJI”
The women’s division might need to put their in-fighting aside soon, though, as a certain
former UFC Bantamweight Champion is coming to kick some ***.
Triple H Confirms Ronda Rousey WWE Talks After TMZ reported that Triple H missed this
week’s Smackdown taping because he was having dinner with Ronda Rousey in LA, The Game himself
has now told ESPN: "We are talking to Ronda, as we've been for
a while.
She has a lot of things going on.
We have a lot of things going on.
But we have a great relationship with her, a very friendly standpoint for a long period
of time now.
It was great to catch up with her."
Triple H revealing talks have been going on “for a while” rather contradicts his Ronda
to WWE denial last month: “that's news to me because I'm the one who would be having
that conversation.”
They don’t call him The Game for nothing, and it’s possible he’s still playing us
now, with talks probably being a lot further in than he’s letting on.
And we wouldn’t have it any other way.
There’s been a huge update on Kenny Omega’s potential Royal Rumble debut!
Click the screen now for more great wrestling videos.