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The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship is no longer vacant after Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah defeated Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai in the Raw final.
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#AndNew WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship! ! ! @RaquelWWE & @WWE_Aliyah won WWE #WomensTagTitles on #WWERaw ! pic.twitter.com/xTwPP2sEEd
While Kay and Skye are distracted, Alia does a blind mark on Rodriguez and surprises Kay to roll up and get an overwhelming victory.
This marks WWE’s first Women’s Tag Championship since May 20. Sasha Banks and Naomi at WrestleMania The second night of 38 won the Deadly Four. However, after a creative dispute, Banksy and Naomi met at Raw on May 16 The episode left the company and WWE vacated the title. Five days later, Michael Cole announced on SmackDown that both women had been suspended indefinitely, A competition will be held to determine the new champion. WWE @WWE
Sasha Banks and Naomi have been suspended indefinitely. There will be a future tournament to crown the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion. pic.twitter.com/8xhJe0l5bV
Still, there has been a deafening silence around the women’s hashtag titles for months
However, after Triple H took over as creative director following Vince McMahon’s retirement in July, WWE unveiled an eight-team tournament bracket to crown the new champion.
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Due to injuries and injuries , there were some shuffling and other problems in the teams on the field. The duo of Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark were replaced by NXT compatriots Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne in the first round against Natalya and Sonya Deville.
Dolin and Jayne won that game, but the former was injured in the game, knocking them out. The four teams that lost in the first round were placed in a second-chance lethal quartet to replace them, with Deville and Natalia winning into the semifinals.
Raquel and Aliyah defeated Shotzi Blackheart and Xia Li in the first round. They defeated Deville and Natalya in their final four games on SmackDown on August 6 to reach the final.
Sky and​​Kai got first-round wins over Tamina and Dana Brook, then went on to semifinals Defeat Alexa Bliss and Asuka in . Sky duo Kay entered the competition as the most popular. They return to SummerSlam as part of a new stable led by Bayley. Rodriguez and Aliyah got their first big push to the main lineup with this tournament.
Finally, it’s Rodriguez and Aliyah
Who has the upper hand. While they can celebrate the moment now, the prospect of Banks and Naomi returning to WWE is imminent.
August 8 Sunday Night Main Event ( (h/t Nitish Vashishtha of RingsideNews.com), Dave Meltzer Says Banks and Naomi have agreed to terms that will allow them to return to the company.
After being ignored for so long, WWE The women’s doubles team looks like a good place to move forward. Rodriguez and Aliyah are sitting on the top of the mountain with many challengers waiting for them.
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