WWE Speed Women’s Championship Tournament Set, Winner to Face Sol Ruca at No Mercy – The competitors for the first-ever WWE Speed Women’s Championship tournament under the NXT umbrella have been revealed.
During the August 26 episode of NXT, Ava announced that WWE main roster star Candice LeRae will represent the company in the opening round as she faces TNA’s Xia Brookside next week. The other first-round match will see AAA’s Faby Apache square off against NXT’s Laney Reid. The winners will then face each other, with the victor earning a championship opportunity against Sol Ruca at NXT No Mercy on September 27.
It was announced at NXT’s Heatwave event over the weekend that the Speed titles would be coming to the brand. Ruca has been seen with the championship in recent weeks, but never showed her championship on television until recently. She won the title back on April 11.
The future of the men’s title hasn’t been brought up on NXT programming. That championship is held by El Grande Americano, who has yet to appear on television wearing the title.
New episodes of WWE Speed stopped after July 9, with WWE providing no information on when the series will return. A recent report by Dave Meltzer seemed to indicate that the show had been dropped, despite WWE signing a two-year deal with X to air Speed exclusively on the platform.
WWE Speed Women’s Championship Tournament Set
