{"id":131009,"date":"2025-02-16T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=131009"},"modified":"2025-02-16T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:11:49","slug":"intercontinental-championship-no-1-contenders-match-added-to-wwe-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/16\/intercontinental-championship-no-1-contenders-match-added-to-wwe-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercontinental Championship No.1 Contender&#8217;s Match Added To WWE Raw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Raw will feature a WWE Women&#8217;s Intercontinental Championship number one contender&#8217;s match during the show from Charlotte, NC on February 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Fans had been promised a four-match card featuring both men and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/14\/wwe-elimination-chamber-2025-current-champion-joins-womens-bout\/\" target=\"_self\">women&#8217;s WWE Elimination Chamber<\/a> qualifier matches. AJ Styles will also return to action against Dominik Mysterio, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/14\/pentas-wwe-debut-wrestlers-react-to-newest-raw-star\/\" target=\"_self\">Penta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/24\/netflix-pete-dunne-wwe-promo\/\" target=\"_self\">Pete Dunne<\/a> continue their feud.<\/p>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/13\/preview-wwe-raw-2-17-25\/\" target=\"_self\">WWE Raw preview here<\/a>. But continue on to find out who will be competing for the first shot at Lyra Valkyria.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Intercontinental Championship No.1 Contender <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dakota Kai and Ivy Nile will battle to decide who challenges Valkyria for her title. The winner of the match will get the honor of being the Irish champion&#8217;s first challenger for the Women&#8217;s Intercontinental Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Valkyria beat Kai in the final of the Women&#8217;s Intercontinental Championship tournament to become the inaugural holder of the gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nile has been placed under strict instructions by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/06\/23\/chad-gable-is-alive-will-compete-in-mitb-match-on-wwe-raw\/\" target=\"_self\">Chad Gable<\/a><\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to win the title before he returns from his excursion to master the dark arts of lucha libre.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Belair &amp; Naomi To Confront Lead Suspects in Jade Cargill Whodunit <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Meanwhile, the Women&#8217;s Tag Team Champions have also been added to WWE Raw. Bianca Belair and Naomi will make an appearance following the news that Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez could be responsible for the attack on their friend Jade Cargill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CCTV footage showing Morgan and Rodriguez fleeing the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">scene of the crime<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was shown on WWE Smackdown. As a result, Belair and Naomi will appear on WWE Raw to confront the duo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Naomi qualifies for the Chamber against Chelsea Green: SmackDown highlights, Feb. 14, 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQL4gelEzG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The extra female presence on WWE Raw is needed as WWE is lacking storylines for its women leading into WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/14\/michelle-mccool-wwe-hall-of-fame-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">Michelle McCool was revealed as the 2nd entrant into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2025 this week.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sami Zayn will also now make an appearance on WWE Raw. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The number one contender&#8217;s match has been added to the four-match card for this week&#8217;s WWE Raw. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/13\/preview-wwe-raw-2-17-25\/\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> our full preview for WWE Raw on Netflix here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HRsfdab0gD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/13\/will-wwe-wrestlemania-41-win-be-gunthers-defining-moment\/\" target=\"_self\">Will WWE WrestleMania 41 Win Be Gunther&#8217;s Defining Moment?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Will WWE WrestleMania 41 Win Be Gunther&#8217;s Defining Moment?&#8221; &#8212; Last Word on Pro Wrestling\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/13\/will-wwe-wrestlemania-41-win-be-gunthers-defining-moment\/embed\/#?secret=pH4Sjkyq6i#?secret=HRsfdab0gD\" data-secret=\"HRsfdab0gD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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 WWE programming on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Network<\/a>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The CW<\/a>\u00a0(NXT), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>\u00a0(archives and premium live event streaming). 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AJ Styles will also return to action against Dominik Mysterio, and Penta and Pete Dunne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":129017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[12,2192,25,4,3],"tags":[7448,2042,8348,8664,406],"class_list":["post-131009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-biance-belair","tag-dakota-kai","tag-ivy-nile","tag-lyra-valkyria","tag-naomi"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131009","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\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131015,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131009\/revisions\/131015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}