In 2018, WWE did the first ever all-women’s pay-per-view event: Evolution.
While the fans of women’s wrestling certainly enjoyed this PPV, this was one of the worst drawing pay-per-views of all time, which is one of the reasons why WWE only did it once. Mickie James confirmed this as well.
However, since WWE doesn’t have to worry about PPV buys / WWE Network buys anymore, since the Network is on Peacock in the US, WWE is open to doing a lot of stuff that they thought wasn’t an option in the past.
On the debut episode of ‘What Do You Want To Talk About?’, Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes asked WWE Women’s Champion Bayley if she wants Evolution 2.
Here’s what Bayley said:
“Yes. Why not? Like we were just saying, there’s so many women. The thing about the first one was we had so many girls from NXT, which they got to showcase on a bigger stage, but they had so many women from the past, it’s kind of like the first few Rumbles, they had a lot of women from the past because we didn’t have enough women to fill up these matches, but now we do.
I think it would be so cool to give everybody on RAW and SmackDown a part of that show, Evolution 2. You can bring girls in from NXT. We just saw Jordynne Grace on NXT, TNA girls, whatever that connection is there, we can bring different girls and you can bring someone in from the past if they’re up for it to do a little something but we have such a stacked roster right now where it’s like, we can hold down a show on our own, another PLE on our own.
It’s been so many years, it’s not like it’s something to do every year where we’re like, alright, we’ve seen it enough times. I think it’s time because it is a different era compared to back then.”
Below are the complete results from Evolution 2018:
– Trish Stratus & Lita def. Mickie James & Alicia Fox (with Alexa Bliss)
– Nia Jax won the 20-woman Battle Royal to earn a Women’s Championship Match
– Toni Storm def. Io Shirai to win the 2018 Mae Young Classic
– Sasha Banks, Bayley & Natalya def. The Riott Squad (Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan)
– Shayna Baszler def. Kairi Sane (c) to win the NXT Women’s Championship
– Becky Lynch (c) def. Charlotte Flair in a Last Woman Standing Match to retain the SmackDown Women’s Championship
– Ronda Rousey (c) def. Nikki Bella (with Brie Bella) to retain the RAW Women’s Championship
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