WWE planning new tournament

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WWE is planning to hold a Queen of the Ring tournament this year, Wrestling Inc. has learned.

The tentative plan is for the event to be a main roster show airing on Peacock. It’s not known when the event will take place.

WWE last held an all-women’s show with the first-ever Evolution pay-per-view in October of 2018. That event was headlined by then-RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey defeating Nikki Bella.

During a media call in June, Triple H was asked about the possibility of the company running another all-women’s event in response to NWA announcing the all-women’s EmPower show. Triple H sounded negative on the idea at the time saying that while it was a possibility, it was not “the must-have of the moment.”

“Haven’t we already done them?” Triple H asked. “It’s a funny thing to me, I just don’t… so equality is equality, equality is not, ‘I want my own show.’ Equality is not, ‘We have to have our own program.’ If I told you that I was making an all-men’s program and I didn’t want women on it, it would be criticized. And I’m not saying that’s right or wrong. I do think it’s funny when people go, ‘I want the best in the world regardless of contractual status.’ What, I’m sorry… but from a business person’s standpoint, then why do we have contractual status? Right? It doesn’t make any sense to me.

“Yeah, if you want to wrestle the best women in the world, come to the WWE. That’s where they are. If you want to go elsewhere and say that they are, that’s an opinion, and you can, but it is what it is. While I’m all for it, I was one of the biggest drivers of it [WWE Evolution], and will we do another all-women’s event down the line? Possibly. But you know, it’s not the must-have of the moment. I think we do an amazing job of displaying our female athletes and is it perfect? No. Will it always be in flux? Yes. But I think we do a pretty good job and in my opinion, again, my opinion, the best female performers in the world are in WWE, and if they’re not, they want to be.”

Stay tuned for updates.
 

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If that’s the case, then they’re better not having the tournament at all. No offense to either woman, but they should use the tournament to build up new talent.

They should, but in today's WWE that would mean, "build them up to get squashed to make X look strong."
 

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At some point, they'll have no other choice but to :yeshrug:

Not if the Stock Markets say otherwise.

If there is a down quarter, fire some talent to make the books look good, and boom crown Charlotte champion again and have everyone chase her. Along the lines you find another person who "has always loved WWE when they were young, and looks up Trish Stratus... Charlotte... Alexa Bliss [Current Handpicked Woman to be the Star]"

At times in the case of Becky Lynch, you almost have to have shyt happen on accident to fukk up their plans. Prior to Becky's run, she wore steampunk gear, which while standing out... was too much of a gimmick. Then she gets busted open, and all of the sudden WWE has no choice but to promote her more than they want to.
 
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