Wrestling Undertaker Assets

LeRae comin' Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein The next class to enter the Performance Center has formally been announced, and the worst kept secrets in wrestling have been unveiled formally. WWE has announced today that Ricochet and War Machine (the tag team featuring Raymond Rowe and Hanson, not the scumbag MMA fighter who is in jail for abusing ex-girlfriend Christy Mack) will report to the Performance Center. Candice LeRae is also signed and expected to be formally announced later today. LeRae wrestled in the Mae Young Classic and has made a few enhancement appearances for NXT before making her soft debut with the company in a dark match before the latest round of tapings for the developmental/premium brand. Ricochet, who has also wrestled as Helios in Chikara and Prince Puma in Lucha Underground, is the biggest catch this round and perhaps the biggest signing since taking on Kevin Steen. He's a well-traveled wrestler whose aerial exploits are both celebrated and bemoaned b...

Are the new debuts a portent for a women's Rumble? Photo Credit: WWE.com If you want a trendy rumored explanation for why Liv Morgan, Ruby Riot, Sarah Logan, Sonya Deville, and Mandy Rose were brought up to the main roster to do exactly the same things just on different shows, it's because WWE wants to do a women's Royal Rumble match at some point. Whether it's in Philadelphia at the actual Rumble or in New York, either at Barclay's Center or the Hammerstein Ballroom during the RAW 25th Anniversary Special, the hot topic is to bring gender equity to the thirty-wrestler over-the-top staggered-entry battle royale in the same way the company did for the Money in the Bank ladder match. As it stands right now, with the five new entrants on the roster plus the returning Paige, the number of active female competitors on both RAW and Smackdown stands at 21. If you remove the two Champions, you're left with 19 competitors. You don't get to 30, but it's not a reac...