WWE: Full Bracket Revealed for WWE Speed Women’s Title Tournament, NXT Officials Impressed with Tavion Heights’ Work in NOAH, Bobby Lashley

Full Bracket Revealed for WWE Speed Women’s Title Tournament

As noted before, WWE will be debuting a new Women’s championship belt for their WWE Speed brand and will be holding a new tournament starting this September to crown the inaugural champion.

WWE recently announced the full bracket and first round matchups for their upcoming WWE Speed Women’s Championship tournament, which starts on September 4th.

Full bracket and First Round matches for WWE Speed Women’s Championship tournament:

• Lyra Valkyria vs. IYO SKY
• Naomi vs. Blair Davenport
• Elektra Lopez vs. Kairi Sane
• Candice LeRae vs. Piper Niven

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Backstage WWE Update on Tavion Heights Current Work for NOAH’s N-1 Victory Tournament

NXT talents Tavion Heights and Josh Briggs are currently working in Japan for this year’s N-1 Victory tournament for Pro Wrestling NOAH.

Fightful Select’s Corey Brennan reported that his sources stated that WWE NXT officials have been “very happy” with the performances and development of Heights during his current run for NOAH in the N-1 Victory tournament.

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Bobby Lashley Clarifies His Comments About Vince McMahon & Triple H’s Different Views of Him as a Star in WWE

As noted before, Bobby Lashley stated in an interview earlier this month with The Laboratory with Plaz podcast about how he had a better working relationship with Vince McMahon than with WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque and how McMahon saw him as a bigger star than Levesque during his time in the company.

Lone Star 92.5’s The Bo And Them Show held a recent interview with Lashley. One of the topics discussed included Lashley clarifying his recent comments about his working relationships with McMahon and Levesque and the differences in how they viewed him as a star in WWE.

“When you look at any interview I’ve ever done, I’m never a negative person. I never bad mouth anyone. I never bad mouth the business. I left WWE in 2008. You can’t see any article where I said anything bad about the people there. I said something where I said I have more of a relationship with Vince than Triple H. Everyone was going after me. It was a very simple, innocent comment. What it was, was, when Vince was here, I had more conversations with him. I don’t know what anybody does in their personal life. When we’re at work, that’s the only thing I concentrate on. When we were there, Vince was always trying to pull a different side of me. There are different things that I did when I was in the wrestling business at that time when Vince was in charge where people were like, ‘Why is Bobby doing that?’ What Vince told me was, ‘I want to see different layers of you.’ Everybody saw me as ‘I want to kill people and wreck people.’ He was like, ‘There is so much more to you. I want to make you feel uncomfortable on TV so we can get those different layers.’ I had a different relationship with Vince. When Triple H came on, we never really had a chance to sit down. He didn’t get a chance to get to know me.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com