My Thoughts and Words 365.

This article was prewritten in December but I kept pushing it to this week. Every column this week including the list will be a Royal Rumble article. Tomorrow the article will rank each of the Royal Rumble matches. Expect personal bias. This is a significant match. We had the first Royal Rumble match for men 31 years ago. It's amazing with all the great women signed on in the past they would have had one before. But women's wrestling in WWE is actually better now than it ever has been. Charlotte, Natalya, Asuka, Bayley, Sasha Banks, etc. You have a ton of great divas in developmental like Ember Moon, Peyton Royce, Nikki Cross, etc. And now they are getting more legitimized with singings of some of the best women around the world including Candice LeRae, Kairi Sane, etc. Not to mention legitimate fighters like Shanya Baszler and a potential Ronda Rousey signing.(Two of MMA's 4 Horsewomen. A 3rd Horsewoman is married to NXT star Roderick Strong.) And it isn't just in t...

The WWE has been killing it over the pasts two years bringing in outside talent and making tournaments work. The CWC, or Cruiserweight Classic was excellent. They signed several talents from there including finalists Gran Metalik & TJ Perkins. Then they had their Women's tournament where they again signed finalists Shayna Baszler & Kairi Sane among others. Even their in house tournaments like the Dusty Rhodes Memorial Classic work. So why doesn't the WWE Mixed Match Challenge work? Several reasons. The first reason is the rule of men vs men and women vs women kills tag team wrestling. This has been a standard for many years and rarely is it broken.(Beth Phoenix, Awesome Kong, & Chyna wrestling men. Gerald Briscoe & Pat Patterson wrestling women.) For good reason too. The WWE is a PG rated product. They are a PC company for the most part. Occasionally they have story lines that go south. So men hitting women wouldn't necessarily look right in the eyes of mo...