{"id":37921,"date":"2019-02-09T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=37921"},"modified":"2019-02-09T01:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T06:10:25","slug":"wwe-announces-intergender-match-at-upcoming-live-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/09\/wwe-announces-intergender-match-at-upcoming-live-event\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Announces Intergender Match At Upcoming Live Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After appearing in the men&#8217;s <strong>Royal Rumble<\/strong> match last month, <strong>Nia Jax<\/strong> appeared on <strong><em>Raw<\/em><\/strong> the next night on January 29, 2019, to confront and attack <strong>Dean Ambrose<\/strong>. At first, fans wondered where this might be heading with the WWE&#8217;s reluctance to feature intergender wrestling on their programming. But while it may never make it to air, the WWE has announced at least one intergender match in its impending future, as Twitter user @flairsnia posted a video from local programming advertising an &#8220;intergender special attraction&#8221; match of Nia Jax facing off one-on-one against the former WWE World Champion in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 22, 2019, on the <strong><em>Road to WrestleMania<\/em><\/strong> tour.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/flairsnia\/status\/1094050471986298880<\/p>\n<p>By the late 1990s, intergender wrestling was widespread amongst the Big Three &#8211; WWF, WCW, and ECW &#8211; with <strong>Luna Vachon<\/strong> facing <strong>Stevie Richards<\/strong> in ECW, to <strong>Chyna<\/strong> and <strong>Jacqueline<\/strong> in the WWF, and Jacqueline and <strong>Madusa<\/strong> in WCW. By the early 2000s, <strong>Molly Holly<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Lita<\/strong> also fought men, but by the mid-2000s, intergender became more of a punishment or a joke match, such as contests like <strong>Kane<\/strong> vs <strong>Trish Stratus<\/strong>, <strong>Umaga<\/strong> vs <strong>Maria Kanellis<\/strong>,<strong> Carlito<\/strong> vs <strong>Victoria<\/strong> or <strong>Santino Marella<\/strong> in the Women&#8217;s Battle Royal at <strong>WrestleMania<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chyna wins her first Intercontinental Championship: No Mercy 1999\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIs3Iw52SqY?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>But on the indie circuit, intergender wrestling saw a boom, thanks largely in part to the groundbreaking work of <strong>LuFisto<\/strong> in <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)<\/strong> and others, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/01\/20\/worlds-cutest-tag-team-and-the-rise-of-intergender-tag-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the work of the intergender tag team, <strong>The World&#8217;s Cutest Tag Team<\/strong><\/a>, featuring <strong>Joey Ryan<\/strong> and <strong>Candice LeRae<\/strong>. Now intergender wrestling is commonplace on the indies, yet in the WWE, it&#8217;s still somewhat taboo. And when it did rear it&#8217;s head again last year, it was the James Ellsworth whipping boy tour, that saw Becky Lynch make easy work of her opponent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Becky Lynch vs. James Ellsworth: SmackDown LIVE, Nov. 7, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VrZuRqUYJmw?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>WWE Live Events are often previews of upcoming programs for television, as wrestlers feel each other out and get in rhythm for a TV program, and a story has been set in motion on\u00a0<em>Raw<\/em> for such a match to air. The question will be whether or not the WWE decides to pull the trigger and before Dean Ambrose&#8217;s tenure with the company ends in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After appearing in the men&#8217;s Royal Rumble match last month, Nia Jax appeared on Raw the next night on January 29, 2019, to confront and attack Dean Ambrose. At first, fans wondered where this might be heading with the WWE&#8217;s reluctance to feature intergender wrestling on their programming. 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