{"id":23711,"date":"2018-08-10T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=23711"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:40:10","slug":"full-brackets-for-mae-young-classic-revealed-non-spoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/10\/full-brackets-for-mae-young-classic-revealed-non-spoiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Brackets for Mae Young Classic Revealed (NON-SPOILER)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE wrapped up filming for the <strong>Mae Young Classic<\/strong> last night, although <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/08\/09\/breaking-serious-injury-at-mae-young-classic-tapings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not without tragedy<\/a>. But by all accounts, the tournament was a huge success and fans online praised the work of all involved. It was revealed that the Mae Young Classic will make it&#8217;s return to the WWE Network on August 29, but instead of having bulk episodes loaded up like last year, it would be a weekly show, airing directly after NXT on Wednesday nights at 9pm. The August 29 date will be the launch, starting with the traditional <em><strong>Bracketology<\/strong><\/em> special, with the first set of matches from round one starting on September 5 the following week. It was also revealed that the announce team will be lead by <strong>Michael Cole<\/strong>, with color commentary by <strong>Beth Phoenix<\/strong> and <strong>Renee Young<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaeYoungClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MaeYoungClassic<\/a> premieres Wednesday, September 5, at 9\/8c immediately following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWENXT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWENXT<\/a> streaming only on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWENetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWENetwork<\/a>! Are you ready <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelCole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MichaelCole<\/a> @ReneeYoungWWE &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBethPhoenix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheBethPhoenix<\/a>?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XsOo4nj0Ld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/XsOo4nj0Ld<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mae Young Classic (@MaeYoungClassic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaeYoungClassic\/status\/1027197192120004608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Without spoiling any of the tournament results, we can tell you what the brackets will look like for the 2018 edition and it really shows the depth of this year&#8217;s tournament. Much like last year, there&#8217;s definitely some dream matches, but for those who have seen the spoilers, there were some upsets galore. And while some have been vocal about some of those upsets, with such a loaded roster this year, realistically 28 of the 32 women had legitimate chances of winning it and first round losses in a tournament are never a bad thing or a burial &#8211; other tournaments like the <strong>New Japan Cup<\/strong> or <strong>PWG<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Battle of Los Angeles<\/strong> have shown that the matches can be as important as the results.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mae Young Classic 2018 Brackets<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22400\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22400\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/mae-young-classic-2018-wwe-logo-e1531938004509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FIELD 1 (Winner Faces Field 2 Winner in Finals at WWE Evolution)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK A (Winner faces Block B Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Meiko Satomura vs. Killer Kelly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Madison (Ashley) Rayne vs. Mercedes Martinez<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK B (Winner faces Block A Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lacey Lane vs. Vanessa Kraven<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taynara Conti vs. Jessie Eleban<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK C (Winner faces Block D Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Toni Storm vs. Jinny<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Evers (Rachael Ellering) vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK D (Winner faces Block C Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mia Yim vs. Allysin Kay (Sienna)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaitlyn vs. Kavita Devi<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FIELD 2 (Winner Faces Field 1 Winner in Finals at WWE Evolution)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK E (Winner faces Block F Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tegan Nox vs. Zatara<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Isla Dawn vs. Nicole Matthews<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK F (Winner faces Block E Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rhea Ripley vs. MJ Jenkins<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kacy Catanzaro vs. Reina Gonzalez<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK G (Winner faces Block H Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Io Shirai vs. Xia Brookside<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Zeuxis vs. Aerial Monroe<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BLOCK H (Winner faces Block G Winner)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deonna Purrazzo vs. Priscilla Kelly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Karen Q vs. Xia Li<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE wrapped up filming for the Mae Young Classic last night, although not without tragedy. But by all accounts, the tournament was a huge success and fans online praised the work of all involved. It was revealed that the Mae Young Classic will make it&#8217;s return to the WWE Network on August 29, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":23713,"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":[3199,304,1594,896,2318,3086,598],"class_list":["post-23711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-brackets","tag-io-shirai","tag-madison-rayne","tag-mae-young-classic","tag-meiko-satomura","tag-tegan-nox","tag-toni-storm"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711","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=23711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}