{"id":20663,"date":"2018-06-21T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=20663"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:01:57","slug":"mae-young-classic-ii-tapings-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/06\/21\/mae-young-classic-ii-tapings-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mae Young Classic II Tapings Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE announced the long awaited tapings dates for the upcoming <strong>Mae Young Classic II<\/strong>, following on the success of last year&#8217;s inaugural Mae Young Classic, that saw some of NXT&#8217;s emerging talent face off against some of the top indie women&#8217;s wrestlers from around the world. Last year&#8217;s two finalists, winner <strong>Kairi Sane<\/strong> and <strong>Shayna Baszler<\/strong>, ended up in NXT shortly after.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are you ready? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaeYoungClassic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MaeYoungClassic<\/a> 2018 will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 8 &amp; Thursday, Aug. 9 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullSail?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FullSail<\/a>, and YOU can secure your tickets beginning tomorrow at 10 AM ET! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaeYoungClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MaeYoungClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9AqV0IGNSO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/9AqV0IGNSO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1009798726112677888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/maeyoungclassic\/article\/mae-young-classic-2018-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE&#8217;s Press Release today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WWE today announced that Mae Young Classic 2018 will take place Wednesday, Aug. 8, and Thursday, Aug. 9, from Full Sail Live in Orlando, Fla., with tickets available tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET\/7 a.m. PT via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxttickets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.nxttickets.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The tournament, named after WWE Hall of Famer and one of the greatest WWE Superstars in history, Mae Young, will once again feature 32 of the top female competitors from 12 countries participating in a single-elimination tournament. The second annual event will stream exclusively on\u00a0WWE Network\u00a0later this summer.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWe are thrilled to once again present the Mae Young Classic and provide a global showcase for 32 of the top female talent from around the world,\u201d said Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque, WWE Executive Vice President, Talent, Live Events &amp; Creative. \u201cLast year\u2019s event was a significant milestone in WWE\u2019s Women\u2019s Evolution, and I am confident this year\u2019s event will break even more barriers.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Additional information on Mae Young Classic 2018 will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While no talents have been announced yet, it&#8217;s been speculated former <strong>PROGRESS<\/strong> Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Toni Storm<\/strong> and former <strong>Stardom<\/strong> star <strong>Io Shirai<\/strong> will be involved, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/06\/14\/tokyo-sports-reporting-meiko-satomura-in-mae-young-classic-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as well as another Joshi legend, <strong>Meiko Satomura<\/strong><\/a>. The LWOPW staff <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/05\/29\/mae-young-classic-ii-a-look-at-who-could-be-in-this-years-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently made our predictions for the possible roster as well.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE announced the long awaited tapings dates for the upcoming Mae Young Classic II, following on the success of last year&#8217;s inaugural Mae Young Classic, that saw some of NXT&#8217;s emerging talent face off against some of the top indie women&#8217;s wrestlers from around the world. Last year&#8217;s two finalists, winner Kairi Sane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":20664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2,317,3,320],"tags":[304,896,598,47],"class_list":["post-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-io-shirai","tag-mae-young-classic","tag-toni-storm","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}