WWE: WWE Women’s World Title Match Contract Signing & Seth Rollins Appearance Set for 3/17 WWE RAW Show, Clarification Update on WWE ID Bookings Rules & Process for WWE ID Matches, More News

Mar 16, 2025

WWE Women’s World Title Match Contract Signing & Seth Rollins Appearance Set for 3/17 WWE RAW Show

WWE RAW brand General Manager Adam Pearce announced two new segments for the card of this Monday’s WWE RAW show at the Forest National in Brussels, Belgium.

This upcoming show will be airing at an earlier than usual start time of 3:00PM EST on Netflix in the United States.

The first new segment announced was a WWE Women’s World Championship match contract signing segment featuring champion IYO SKY and Bianca Belair.

The second new segment announced was Seth Rollins making an appearance on the show.

#WWERaw GM @ScrapDaddyAP runs down what you can expect to see on a STACKED #RawOnNetflix tomorrow with a special start time of 3PM ET/12PM PT! pic.twitter.com/sYxVuksZ7k
— WWE (@WWE) March 16, 2025

Current card for March 17th WWE RAW show:

WWE Intercontinental Championship – Finn Balor vs. Bron Breakker (c)
No Hold Barred match – Penta vs. Ludwig Kaiser
Jey Uso vs. Austin Theory
Dakota Kai vs. Ivy Nile
Bianca Belair and IYO SKY WWE Women’s World Championship match contract signing
John Cena and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes to appear
Seth Rollins to appear

Clarification Update on WWE ID Bookings Rules & Process for WWE ID Matches in Indies

As noted before, Game Changer Wrestling owner Brett Lauderdale denied a report from Dave Meltzer in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter about WWE’s current rules and process when it comes to WWE ID talent being booked for indie events. Lauderdale denied that WWE official Gabe Sapolsky puts together the matches for WWE ID talents and provides indie promotions with a script to use. Lauderdale also denied that WWE provides a travel stipend for their WWE ID talents booked for indie events and promoters having to cover the difference if the travel costs are higher.

Dave Meltzer provided a correction in Sunday’s Daily Update stating that his report was not originally meant to be published as part of the current Wrestling Observer Newsletter issue and instead was an incomplete report. Meltzer reported that the actual full report was meant to be published for this Friday’s issue.

Meltzer reported that those spoken to stated that Sapolsky does give a script to promoters and WWE covers the travel costs only for matches that are promoted by WWE as WWE ID Showcase matches and everyone in the match is an WWE ID talent.

For matches booked that are not official WWE ID showcase matches or if the WWE ID talent is getting booked on their own, then the rules from WWE do not apply for their bookings.

Meltzer also reported that WWE currently does not block matches for their WWE ID talent and they can work indie shows against AEW talent but WWE won’t promote those matches nor feature them on their YouTube channel.

WWE News & Notes

Fanatics and WWE announced that WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin will be making an appearance at their WWE World fan event on April 19-20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As noted before, recent rumors of Shinsuke Nakamura leaving WWE soon were debunked. These rumors originated over claims of the reason why Nakamura dropped his United States Championship to LA Knight on the March 7th WWE SmackDown show was due to him being “benched until further notice” and WWE officials had no plans to renew his contract. The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported in Sunday’s Daily Update that his sources confirmed that Nakamura is not leaving WWE. Meltzer reported that the debunked rumors had claimed that Pro Wrestling Torch’s Wade Keller was the source but those at the Torch stated that Keller never said that.

Bayley has been involved in a storyline feud with Roxanne Perez in recent weeks WWE SmackDown and NXT shows. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated WWE officials currently have plans for Bayley’s feud with Perez to continue. Sapp reported that it is currently not known if Bayley and Perez will be facing off in a match at WrestleMania 41.

CM Punk recently announced on Instagram that he will be making an appearance at this week’s WWE SmackDown show on March 21st in Bologna, Italy.

WWE recently announced that they will be selling custom WWE European Football Legacy Championship belts for thirteen major European football club. These clubs are Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Celtic FC, Rangers FC, BVB Dortmund, Chelsea FC, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa, West Ham United, Manchester United, and Manchester City.

As noted before, WWE is currently working on tentative plans to hold a new all-women’s Evolution event this July. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that the tentative plans for a July 5th date and Uncasville, Connecticut location was something that WWE officials had originally considered for this year’s NXT Great American Bash event. Meltzer reported that venue officials reportedly were originally under the impression that they would be hosting a NXT event and later a new all-women’s event from WWE.

WWE recently revealed the next match in their on-going countdown of their Top 50 matches in WrestleMania history. The 34th spot was the Career Threatening match of Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair from WrestleMania XXIV. The 33rd spot was the WWE Championship match of “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair (c) from WrestleMania VIII. The 32nd spot was the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match of Daniel Bryan vs. Batista vs. Randy Orton (c) from WrestleMania XXX.

WWE also recently released three new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was the full November 9, 1985 episode of NWA WCW. The second new video was a singles match of The Giant vs. Kevin Nash from WCW Uncensored 1998. The third new video was a tag team match of Lex Luger & Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan & Randy Savage from the November 16, 1998 episode of WCW Nitro.

WWE also recently released three new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a WWE Hardcore Championship Thriple Threat match of Kane vs. Big Show vs. Raven (c) from WWE WrestleMania X-Seven. The second new video was the full “WrestleFest ’92 – Bret Hart, Nasty Boys, LOD in action and more!” home video. The third new video was a WWE Championship match of Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Shawn Michaels (c) from WWE WrestleMania XIV.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their NXT Vault channel. The first new video was the full January 15, 2014 episode of WWE NXT. The second new video was a NXT Women’s Championship match of Raquel Gonzalez vs. Io Shirai (c) from NXT Takeover: Stand & Deliver 2021.