Backstage Notes On CANCELLED WWE WrestleMania 37 Match
Things were always very different for a certain WrestleMania 37 match with title implications.
The Tag Team Turmoil match announced for WrestleMania 37 on this week's episode of Raw was almost a pre-WrestleMania 15-style battle royale that would have crowned two individual winners to wrestle for the Women's Tag Team Championships the following night.
Per WrestleVotes, the original idea would have seen the battle royal's last two surviving wrestlers form a thrown-together tag team a la Test and D'Lo Brown prior to 'Mania 15, with the duo advancing to face Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler the following evening.
Original idea prior to the Women’s Tag Team Turmoil match being decided on was to have the annual Women’s Battle Royal where the final 2 would be “winners” & form a tag team the next night. Much like the WM 15 Battle Royal that Test & D’Lo won, then lost later to Owen & Jarrett.
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Rather than going with this, WWE has instead booked a four-way tag bout pitting The Riott Squad, Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose, Natalya and Tamina, and Lana and Naomi against each other on night one, with the victorious team facing Jax and Baszler 24 hours later.
A since-deleted social media post suggests that Billie Kay and Carmella will be added to Tag Team Turmoil before the weekend.
Given that the current women's tag scene is comprised almost exclusively of hastily assembled tandems, perhaps it's best WWE didn't push this to the forefront by going with the battle royal. There's also the bad omen of Test and Brown, who lost their Tag Team Title match to Jeff Jarrett and Owen Hart in four minutes, though it's hard to see any of the women's tandems listed above toppling Jax and Baszler anyway.