{"id":115079,"date":"2022-08-06T02:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T06:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=115079"},"modified":"2022-08-06T02:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T06:15:37","slug":"wwe-announces-tournament-to-crown-new-womens-tag-team-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/08\/06\/wwe-announces-tournament-to-crown-new-womens-tag-team-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Announces Tournament to Crown New Women&#8217;s Tag Team Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant&#8217;s reign at the top is about to come to an end as <strong>WWE<\/strong> announced that a tournament to crown new women&#8217;s tag team champions will take place starting this Monday night on <em><strong>Raw<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Tag Team Championship has been in a state of uncertainty ever since former champions, <strong>Sasha Banks<\/strong> and <strong>Naomi<\/strong> walked out of the company, reportedly over a difference of opinion when it came to creative direction. While Banks and Naomi may return, WWE has decided they will need to crown a new champion in the meantime. The tournament will begin on Monday night, though as of now, the teams that will be taking part have been undetermined.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS: A tournament to crown new WWE Women&#39;s Tag Team Champions will begin Monday on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWERaw<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Who would you like to see enter the tournament? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SmackDown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pH6kKH7Bun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pH6kKH7Bun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1555731880904884224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"main-wrapper\">\n<section class=\"body page wrestling\">\n<div class=\"inner blog\">\n<div class=\"column main\">\n<div class=\"posts\">\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Of course, the women&#8217;s tag team division has certainly not gone away in the last few months, even if it has remained a bit dormant due to the absence of champions. But recently at <em><strong>SummerSlam<\/strong><\/em> and the following Raw, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/08\/01\/first-impressions-of-the-triple-h-era-womens-division-shines-united-states-championship-brought-to-the-forefront\/\" target=\"_self\">WWE placed a strong emphasis on the women&#8217;s division<\/a> and the talented wrestlers in it. Friday night&#8217;s<em><strong> SmackDown<\/strong><\/em> continued this theme, but the focus was largely on the singles division as a gauntlet match determined <strong>Liv Morgan<\/strong>&#8216;s opponent at the upcoming <em><strong>Clash at the Castl<\/strong><\/em>e. That, however, doesn&#8217;t mean that there aren&#8217;t trios waiting in the wings on both the red and blue brands.<\/p>\n<p>Both rosters have a strong group of women who are undoubtedly waiting for an opportunity. With <strong>Triple H<\/strong> in charge, there is hope that this division will rise to a level that it never quite reached previously. That all begins with the tournament starting next week on Raw.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cls-video-container-qixf5NIQ\" class=\"adthrive\">\n<div id=\"adthrive-collapse-container\" class=\"adthrive-player-container adthrive-collapse-player\">\n<div id=\"adthrive-collapse-position\" class=\"adthrive-player-position adthrive-player-without-wrapper-text\">\n<div id=\"qixf5NIQ\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-playing jw-stretch-uniform jw-flag-aspect-mode jw-breakpoint-3 jw-floating-dismissible jw-flag-ads-googleima jw-flag-ads jw-flag-user-inactive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video Player\" aria-describedby=\"jw-shortcuts-tooltip-explanation\">\n<div class=\"jw-aspect jw-reset\"><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant&#8217;s reign at the top is about to come to an end as WWE announced that a tournament to crown new women&#8217;s tag team champions will take place starting this Monday night on Raw. The Women&#8217;s Tag Team Championship has been in a state of uncertainty ever since former champions, Sasha Banks and Naomi walked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":115080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,2192,25,26,317,4,3,320],"tags":[406,159,7092],"class_list":["post-115079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-smackdown","category-women","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-naomi","tag-sasha-banks","tag-wwe-womens-tag-team-championship"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}