WWE: NXT Women’s Title Tournament Bracket, Night of Champions Current Card, MLW Lawsuit Update

May 9, 2023

WWE Announces Full Bracket for NXT Women’s Title Tournament

As noted before, this past Tuesday’s NXT show featured Indi Hartwell relinquishing her NXT Women’s Championship due to her being drafted to WWE’s RAW brand. Hartwell also revealed that a tournament would be held to crown a new NXT Women’s Championship starting with this Tuesday’s NXT show.

WWE recently announced the full field of competitors and bracket for their upcoming NXT Women’s Championship tournament.

Full First Round matches for NXT Women’s Championship tournament:

Gigi Dolin vs. Tiffany Stratton
Roxanne Perez vs. Jacy Jayne
Lyra Valkyria vs. Kiana James
Fallon Henley vs. Cora Jade

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— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) May 9, 2023

Two Matches Announced for Night of Champions 2023 & Current Card

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Jacksonville, Florida featured two new matches officially announced for the card of WWE’s Night of Champions 2023 event, which takes place on May 27th in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The first new match announced was a single match of Cody Rhodes vs. Brock Lesnar. During a First Round Triple Threat match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, Brock Lesnar made a surprise appearance attacking Cody Rhodes and taking him out of the match. This resulted in Finn Balor pinning The Miz and advancing to the Finals of the RAW side of the tournament. Following the match, Lesnar continued his attack on Rhodes and gave a promo challenging Rhodes to a match at this month’s Night of Champions event. In a backstage interview segment later in the show, Rhodes gave his thoughts about Lesnar’s attack on him earlier and accepted the match challenge.

The second and final new match announced was a WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Finals match of Seth Rollins vs. TBA. Rollins earned a spot in the finals of WWE’s World title tournament following his victory over Finn Balor in the Finals of the RAW side of the tournament. Earlier in the show, Rollins defeated Shinsuke Nakamura and Damian Priest in a First Round Triple Threat match for the tournament.

Current card for WWE Night of Champions 2023:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Finals – Seth Rollins vs. winner of SmackDown’s bracket side
Brock Lesnar vs. Cody Rhodes

MLW Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against WWE Update

As noted before, Major League Wrestling’s original antitrust lawsuit against WWE was dismissed this past February and had filed a new amended lawsuit this past March.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that a court hearing for MLW’s amended lawsuit is currently scheduled to take place on July 20th before the U.S. District Court California Northern District, San Jose based on recent court records.

Johnson reported that this hearing will determine if the court will grant or deny WWE’s recent motion to have MLW’s amended lawsuit be officially dismissed.