It Hasn’t Been That Long. WWE Changes Course On Royal Rumble Match.

If you can’t trust your own show, who can you trust? WWE has a lot of television shows, to the point where you might not even know all of them off the top of your head. One of the lesser known shows is Main Event, which is typically just a recap show. As it turned out though there might have been some breaking news on this week’s episode. Amazingly enough, that turned out to be premature.

Just yesterday, it was reported that Asuka vs. Becky Lynch for the SmackDown Women’s Title had been confirmed for next month’s Royal Rumble on Main Event. WWE has already started walking back the news, even though it aired on its own television show. Former General Manager Paige has already announced a retraction on Twitter, acknowledging that the match was announced but saying that she didn’t have the authority to make the match anymore.

Soooo I tried to make one last match before my time as #SDLive GM came to end…but unfortunately @BeckyLynchWWE vs. @WWEAsuka for the Smackdown Women’s Championship is NOT official for #RoyalRumble. #Oops

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) December 21, 2018

It was certainly teased. Check out the tease of this match from earlier this week on SmackDown Live:

Lynch and Flair want the next SmackDown Women's Title Match: SmackDown LIVE, Dec. 18, 2018

Opinion: Maybe they changed their mind, but I really hope this isn’t just for the sake of making the announcement on TV. Does it really make that much of a difference where the match is announced? It seems to be the direction in which they’re heading, but for some reason they don’t want to announce it there. How many people even see Main Event in the first place?

Do you want to see this match? Does it matter that it was announced on Main Event? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 1997 Monday Night Raw Reviews.

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