Rousey - Wrestlemania 32, Batista back to being The Animal, Huge NXT Takeover main event
- Ever since Ronda Rousey appeared at this year's Wrestlemania, talks have been running hard and fast about her working an angle with Stephanie McMahon as part of next year's Wrestlemania 32 in Dallas, Texas in front of a expected record-breaking live crowd of over 100,000 people.
However, in what has to be a major dampener on the WWE plans, Rousey won't be appearing at the event now, after she was announced for the "Mile 22" movie that will be filmed in and around the time Wrestlemania 32 rolls around. When asked by the media this week, Rousey herself confirmed the same.
- After their show-stealing match at the last NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, Bayley and Sasha Banks are set to rematch at the next NXT live special on October 7th, 2015, confirmed Triple H & WWE. The match is a set to be the first ever ironwoman match for 30 minutes and it will be for the NXT Divas championship. Below is Triple H’s tweet announcing the same:
WWE issued the following:
On the heels of their groundbreaking, show-stealing battle at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, Bayley andSasha Banks are set to make history once again. NXT General Manager William Regal has confirmed that the two will clash once again in the main event of NXT TakeOver on Oct. 7 in a 30-Minute Iron Man Match for the NXT Women’s Championship!
This title match will go a full half-hour. Whoever scores the most pinfalls, submissions, disqualifications or count-outs will win the match and be declared NXT Women’s Champion.
The rivalry between these two Divas runs deep. After months of coming up short in championship matches, Bayley finally found the champion’s spirit within, going on a tear through the best competition NXT had to offer, defeating Emma, Charlotte and Becky Lynch to earn a title match with Sasha in Brooklyn. While the match meant everything to Bayley, The Boss dismissed her challenger before the bell even rang. Having been called up to WWE’s main roster as part of the Divas Revolution, the Team B.A.D. member brushed Bayley off, saying that she wasn’t worth her time.
Fueled by Sasha’s disrespect, Bayley laid it all on the line at the sold-out Barclays Center. Despite The Boss’ best attempts to re-injure her hand, the happy-go-lucky Diva fought through the pain, and several nasty spills, to connect with a reverse hurricanrana off the ropes and a Belly-to-Bayley Suplex to capture the title.
Having finally reached the top of the mountain, Bayley stood tall with the NXT Women’s Championship in hand, soon to be joined in celebration by Charlotte and Becky. Sasha got back in the ring and hugged her rival, before the four Divas who changed the face of women’s wrestling took a curtain call at NXT’s biggest event ever.
As it turns out, the last chapter in this grueling rivalry hadn’t been written yet. Bayley and Sasha Banks will have another opportunity to change the game at NXT TakeOver. Who will go the distance in a grueling 30-Minute WWE Iron Man Match and walk out of Orlando with the NXT Women’s Championship? Find out Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, only on WWE Network!
- When Batista came back to the WWE last year, he sported a different look from what he did during his first run in the WWE as ‘The Animal’. However, long time fans of his will be happy to know he is back to being ‘The Animal’ as he has gone back to the look following the filming of the movies he has been working on recently. Below are some tweets that point to that fact: