AJ Lee gets the win for her WarGames team at WWE Survivor Series. The finals of the AEW Women’s Tag Team Championship tournament are set. Jessica Troy chats with WrestleZone and more.
AJ Lee Gets Win For WarGames Team
It was an all-out 40-minute battle at WWE Survivor Series as the women of WWE competed in a grueling five-on-five WarGames match. Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch led the respective teams, which also included the likes of AJ Lee, Charlotte Flair, Nia Jax, and the recently called-up Lash Legend.
In the match’s final moments, IYO SKY wiped out Legend, Jax, Kairi Sane, and Asuka with a trash can-loaded Swanton Bomb. Left to fend for herself, Lynch then tried to escape the cage by climbing up and over its top. Flair pulled Lynch back down to the ring to meet a right hand from Alexa Bliss instead, allowing Ripley and Lee to follow with the Riptide and the Black Widow, respectively. The latter proved to be too much for Lynch to handle, so she tapped out. As a result, Lee, Flair, Bliss, SKY, and Ripley were deemed the winners.
Elsewhere at Survivor Series, WWE Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer successfully defended her title against WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella. This came after Vaquer nailed Bella with two rounds of the Devil’s Kiss, then a corkscrew splash. On the fallout episode of WWE Raw, Liv Morgan made it clear that she was eyeing Vaquer’s title next.
At Survivor Series, Morgan made her surprise return by low-blowing John Cena and striking him with the WWE Intercontinental Championship belt in order to help Dominik Mysterio regain the title. Fellow Judgment Day members Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez also got physical with Cena when they nailed him with a Pop Rox and Tejana Bomb.
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AEW Women’s Tag Tourney Finals Set
After years of pleading from wrestling fans, All Elite Wrestling is finally set to crown its first-ever Women’s Tag Team Champions, with The Timeless Love Bombs and the Babes of Wrath vying for the distinction.
Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale, known as Babes of Wrath, carved their path to the finals by defeating Mercedes Mone and Athena, then Skye Blue and Julia Hart in the championship tournament. The Timeless Love Bombs, Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa, forged theirs by besting Riho and Alex Windsor, then Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir.
Storm and Shirakawa’s latter win came in a Hardcore Holiday Deathmatch on AEW Dynamite this week. Whatever the result of it, though, Nightingale and Cameron asserted that the AEW Women’s Tag Team Championships would be theirs.
“A lot of people didn’t believe that we would get this far, but it didn’t matter because we believed in us,” Cameron said in a vignette.
“We’re done relying on surprises and upset wins,” Nightingale added. “We are ready to be the first-ever AEW Women’s Tag Team Champions, so it doesn’t matter who’s standing across the ring from us. We’re coming ready.”
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NXT To Crown New Iron Survivor
A new Women’s Iron Survivor will emerge this weekend when WWE NXT hosts the fourth annual Deadline event from San Antonio, Texas.
Per usual, the winner of the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge will earn a future shot at the NXT Women’s Championship, presently held by Jacy Jayne. The 2025 field includes three former singles champions and a current one in the form of WWE Women’s Evolve Champion Kendal Grey. Sol Ruca, Kelani Jordan, and Jordynne Grace have previously tasted gold under the WWE NXT and/or TNA banners. Lola Vice, the final competitor, has yet to hold championship gold of any shape, though she notably won the NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament of 2023.
Elsewhere at Deadline, Tatum Paxley will take on her now former friend Izzi Dame in a singles match. During NXT Gold Rush, Dame and The Culling turned on Paxley and cost her the NXT Women’s Championship she had claimed just three weeks before. According to Dame, Paxley wasted the gifts that she had given her, so she felt compelled to teach her a lesson. In return, Paxley has vowed to make Dame feel all her pain, which has been building for years in NXT.
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INTERVIEWS
Former PWA Heavyweight Champion Jessica Troy spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about Pro Wrestling’s Australia festive end to 2025 with KICK ONS, her holiday favorites and memories, wrestling Orange Cassidy, her grueling Last Wrestler Standing Match against Charli Evans, the warrior inspired gear she wore for it, Shay Kassidy’s growth as a singles competitor, ranking on the PWI 500 again, adventures in Bali, and more.
WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill talked with Going Ringside about winning her title at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, tagging with Shaq when she was brand new to wrestling, her roots as a basketball player for Jacksonville University, whether Marvel might cast her some day to play “Storm” in the X-Men, and more.
Former WWE star CJ Perry sat down with Chris Van Vliet to discuss the launch of her new podcast “Identity Crisis”, taking time away from wrestling, her husband Rusev and his return to WWE, how the Lana character was pitched to her, being part of a hilarious moment with Nia Jax, being involved in multiple romantic storylines, and more.
WWE NXT star Wren Sinclair joined The Battleground Podcast to talk about NXT Deadline, how her first experience in that match shaped her, her rise in NXT, her chemistry with Women’s Evolve Champion Kendal Grey, where she fits in a stacked women’s division, the defining moments of her journey from NWA to NXT, and more.
WWE star Lash Legend chatted with Adrian Hernandez about becoming a WWE main roster call-up, who she told first when she was given the news, the waiting game in NXT waiting to be called up, her fashion sense compared to Trick Williams, being in this year’s historic War Games match, WWE Evolution 2025, Beyonce, and more.
“The Hellbent Vixen” Viva Van appeared on Talk Is Jericho to discuss how she helped Vietnam Pro Wrestling get their very first wrestling ring, what it meant to wrestle in Ho Chi Minh City for the very first time, her WWE private tryout, her grind across the indies, training at the NJPW LA Dojo, wrestling Toni Storm on AEW Rampage, her metal-inspired ring entrance, her time singing in a death-metal band, and more.
