WWE Women's Tag Team Title Tournament Hit With ANOTHER Injury Pull-Out
Second chance match set for SmackDown to fill now-vacant slot in bracket.
It wouldn't be completely out-of-bounds to call the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship tournament a bit snakebitten after a new development Monday night.
Raw opened with a tournament semifinal match between Asuka & Alexa Bliss and Dakota Kai & Iyo Sky, but the big news was that Toxic Attraction, who won their first-round match against Natalya & Sonya Deville, were being replaced by the winner of a second chance fatal four-way match between the losers of all four first-round matches. That match is taking place on SmackDown Friday.
We later learned that Gigi Dolin apparently sustained an injury in that debut match, leading to Toxic Attraction having to pull out of the tournament. Interestingly, they did not just give Aliyah & Raquel Rodriguez a bye to the finals, nor did Toxic Attraction pull the Freebird Rule and have Mandy Rose sub in for Dolin.
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But that's not the entirety of unrest in this eight-team tournament. Toxic Attraction themselves were replacements in the tourney, subbing for NXT's Zoey Stark & Nikkita Lyons, who were announced but were pulled hours before SmackDown last week due to an injury to Stark.
And of course, all of this follows the reality that the tag titles have been vacant for more than three months, ever since Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out of Raw in May and surrendered the titles.