WWE has been facing some difficulties from the very beginning of setting things up for the Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament. They have already made changes last week due to injury and then again another injury occurred prior to this week’s Raw to cause more alteration to the ongoing tourney.
It was last week before SmackDown that WWE announced that Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark were pulled from the Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament. The latter one is suffering from a legit injury following this past week’s Heatwave while her partner was reportedly not allowed to enter Canada for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine. WWE noted in their announcement how both the women not being medically able to compete but that might not be the real story.
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After this was pulled, another team from the NXT roster was called upon to make their main roster debut. It was Toxic Attraction’s Gigi Dolin and Jacey Jayne who arrived on SmackDown and got the win over Sonya Deville and Natalya in the first-round match on this past Friday’s SmackDown. Thereby, the winners were booked in the semifinal match of the Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament set for this Friday night.
However, WWE had then offered an update saying that Dolin and Jayne have now been pulled from the Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament since Dolin has suffered injuries and isn’t medically cleared to compete. The extent, as well as the details of her injuries, were not revealed. Dolin also reacted to her injury by posting a cartoon gif of a figure sitting and crying on her Twitter account.
A Fatal-4-Way Announced for Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament
As noted above, Dolin and Jayne were originally supposed to face Raquel Rodriquez and Aliyah on SmackDown this Friday, with the winners moving on to the tournament final. But in the absence of the Toxic Attraction, WWE will now hold a Second Chance Fatal-4-Way Tag Team Match on Friday’s SmackDown.
All those teams who all lost their first-round matches in the women’s tag team championship tournament will compete in this battle. These teams are 24/7 Champion Dana Brooke and Tamina; Nikki A.S.H. and Doudrop; Xia Li and Shotzi; and Sonya Deville and Natalya.
Also on this week’s Raw the team of IYO SKY and Dakota Kai defeated Alexa Bliss and Asuka to become the first finalist team of the ongoing Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament. They will now face the winner of the Fatal-4-Way match set for this week’s Smackdown.
Additionally, Kai and SKY have another big match coming up in the near future as they will team with their group leader Bayley in a six-woman tag team match at Clash at the Castle against the team of Alexa Bliss, Asuka, and Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair.
