WWE Girls’s Cash within the Financial institution qualifiers start. Willow Nightingale and Marina Shafir will make historical past at AEW Double or Nothing. WWE will crown the Evolve Girls’s Champion. Brooke Havok chats with WrestleZone, and extra.
WWE MITB Qualifiers Start
The highway to WWE Cash within the Financial institution has formally begun, with three ladies already confirmed for the annual ladder match.
Qualifiers for the Girls’s Cash within the Financial institution bout started final Friday on WWE SmackDown. On this evening, Alexa Bliss took on Michin and former Girls’s United States Champion Chelsea Inexperienced in a triple menace. Towards the tip, Inexperienced gave the impression to be on the verge of victory after laying out Michin with an Unprettier. Earlier than she may capitalize, nonetheless, Bliss pulled Michin out of the ring and planted Inexperienced with a Sister Abigail for the win as a substitute.
Congrats, Alexa Bliss! ?@AlexaBliss_WWE is the primary qualifier for the 2025 Girls’s #MITB Ladder Match! ? pic.twitter.com/KeHuPQWDES
— WWE (@WWE) Could 17, 2025
Three days in a while WWE Uncooked, newly-signed foremost roster star Roxanne Perez secured the second spot within the Girls’s Cash within the Financial institution by pinning Natalya following a Pop Rox. Becky Lynch, the third competitor, was momentarily taken out of the equation as a result of Lyra Valkyria dragging her out of the ring.
Lastly, former WWE Girls’s World Champion Rhea Ripley stuffed the third MITB slot by defeating Kairi Sane and Zoey Stark. On this case, WWE officers eliminated Stark from the match mid-way by after she sustained an obvious knee damage. From there, Sane and Ripley battled one-on-one, with “Mami” incomes the win, courtesy of a Riptide.
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Willow Nightingale Re-Indicators With AEW, AEW Double or Nothing Preview
This weekend, Willow Nightingale will be part of forces with Kenny Omega, Swerve Strickland, and The Opps to tackle The Dying Riders and The Younger Bucks in Anarchy within the Area at AEW Double or Nothing. Beforehand, she re-signed with All Elite Wrestling below a multi-year deal.
“I’m completely happy the place I’m,” Nightingale confirmed to The Takedown on SI’s Jon Alba. “I feel there’s a lot left forward for me to do at AEW, issues that I wish to accomplish. But in addition, I’m simply actually excited to be part of one thing when it’s contemporary and new and, like, you realize, I feel we’re previous the years of discovering our footing. However to have been part of that and proceed to water and watch it develop is only a privilege in addition to a pleasure, you realize? So I’m excited to proceed, to participate in that.”
Nightingale, alongside Marina Shafir, will make historical past at Double or Nothing as they grow to be the primary ladies to ever compete within the Anarchy within the Area match. Tensions between each side have been brewing for months, notably as The Dying Riders proceed to unleash chaos on the AEW locker room, with Jon Moxley additionally reigning s the AEW World Champion.
Elsewhere on the pay-per-view, Jamie Hayter and Mercedes Mone will conflict within the finals of the Girls’s Owen Hart Event. Hayter defeated Kris Statlander and Billie Starkz on her path to the finals, whereas Mone bested Athena and Harley Cameron. The winner of Hayter vs. Mone will subsequently earn an AEW Girls’s Championship match at All In on July 12.
The AEW Girls’s Championship is at present held by “Timeless” Toni Storm, who will defend it in opposition to Mina Shirakawa at Double or Nothing. Shirakawa earned this chance by pinning Storm in an eliminator match final week.
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WWE To Crown Inaugural Girls’s Evolve Champion
Subsequent week, a brand new champion will take their throne in WWE.
On Wednesday’s episode of WWE Evolve, WWE ID prospect Kylie Rae defeated Zayda Metal, Aria Bennett, and Chantel Monroe in a fatal-four-way match. With this win, Rae now advances to subsequent week’s four-way elimination match during which the winner earned the title of the primary ever WWE Girls’s Evolve Champion.
Kylie Rae will get the ultimate spot within the 4-Method to crown the primary EVOLVE Girls’s Champion! #WWEEvolve pic.twitter.com/Tn71DC6FL2
— ?????? (@WrestlingCovers) Could 22, 2025
Other than Rae, this inaugural championship match will embrace Wendy Choo, Kali Armstrong, and Kendal Gray. Choo, an 11-year veteran, signed with WWE in 2019. Gray, a former novice wrestler, joined WWE in 2023. Rae, after all, is thought for her work in a mess of promotions, together with All Elite Wrestling, TNA Wrestling, the Nationwide Wrestling Alliance, and now WWE.
WWE introduced Rae as one of many first WWE ID prospects final fall alongside the likes of Zayda Metal, Zoe Sager, and Zara Zakher.
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INTERVIEWS
“Moshpit Mommy” Brooke Havok spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about getting back from two main knee accidents, changing into an everyday in GCW, potential curiosity in Bloodsport, wrestling on a prepare in Japan, coaching with Marvelous, collaborating with Downstait on a brand new entrance theme track, wrestling Sandra Moone forward of Sandra’s retirement, making her AEW tv debut in opposition to Jamie Hayter, and extra.
WWE NXT Girls’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer chatted with WrestleZone in regards to the depth of the NXT ladies’s division, why she needs to characterize it as champion, reveals how Japan influenced her look, what she needs to concentrate on, and extra.
NWA Girls’s Champion Kenzie Paige additionally joined WrestleZone to speak about dealing with Natalya on the 2025 Crockett Cup, Gail Kim as visitor referee, creating her personal alternatives in NWA, what she needs folks to speak about extra, Queen of the Ring, and extra.
TNA Knockout Victoria Crawford (fka Alicia Fox) sat down with MuscleManMalcolm about difficult Masha Slamovich for the TNA Knockout World Championship at Underneath Siege, her arrival to TNA, successful the Divas Championship in WWE, her Northern Lights suplex, and extra!
Former WWE Girls’s Champion Mickie James talked with Denise Salcedo in regards to the collaboration between WWE and TNA, how her Royal Rumble look performed a small position in that, her expertise working as a coach on WWE LFG sequence, her ideas on her husband Nick Aldis, how he’s doing as WWE Smackdown Normal Supervisor, and extra.
WWE Girls’s Intercontinental Champion Lyra Valkyria appeared on Perception with Chris Van Vliet to debate rising up in Eire, making it to WWE, being impressed by Becky Lynch, attending to wrestle The Man, changing into the first-ever Girls’s Intercontinental Champion, tagging with Bayley, the inspiration behind her entrance and extra.
Former WWE broadcaster Kayla Becker spoke with WhatCulture’s Simon Miller about her new podcasts Killing Time With Kayla and Milk & Honeys, whether or not or not she has a future in wrestling, hitting her ceiling WWE, what occurred to WWE’s The Bump, her chemistry with Paul Heyman, and extra.
