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Rowdiest Wrestlemania in years!

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  Ronda Rousey (pictured) cashed in her ticket to the Wrestlemania main event by winning this year's women's Royal Rumble event. (Photo Credit: Yahoo Sports ) Wrestlemania38 is around the corner, and the weather in Dallas Texas is expected to be Rowdy: with flashes of Ronda Rousey hailing blows at a champion of her choosing.   Combat sports veteran, and the only woman in history thus far to have held both Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Wrestling Entertainment women’s championships in history: Ronda Rousey made an impressive return to the WWE at this year’s Royal Rumble – impactfully entering at number 28, and deservingly winning the entire event. The women’s Royal Rumble match was certainly a splash-festival of talent, ambition and a strong sense of hunger to be in the main event at Wrestlemania.   There were no disappointing moments, and the match was absolute quality. Although Ronda Rousey ate the ringside apron courtesy of Rhea Ripley – which was among the fe

Naomi’s villainous Deville feud

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  This saga is nowhere near 'in the past', and wrestling fans may wait for Wrestlemania to see an end to the feud between Naomi (left) and Sonya Deville (right).  (Photo Credit: WWE ) World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Naomi has, for months, been embroiled in an entertaining (where not heart-breaking) feud with WWE official Sonya Deville – whom she met twice in the ring this week on WWE Tv: first in a winning effort on Friday night Smackdown, and again in the Royal Rumble. Sonya Deville entered the Rumble at number 11, and chose to wait for Naomi at the commentary table.   She left the commentator’s desk when number 13, the returning Cameron and long-time friend of Naomi, entered the Rumble. Deville would then savagely eliminate Cameron moments before Naomi would enter the Rumble at number 14 – kickstarting round two of the amazing Sonya Deville versus Naomi fight in a 24 hour cycle. Naomi would waste no time in clocking Sonya Deville’s number, and eliminating the WWE

An Historic Universal Reign to be proud of

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  And Still... (Photo Credit: The Sun ) The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Universal Champion Roman Reigns completely upped the ante at this year’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view event in his hyper-physical and personal title defense match-up against his former shield stable-mate Seth “Fricken” Rollins. Rollins – who brilliantly portrays a maniacal villain on WWE television – came out through the audience in The Shield order (through the crowd), with the Shield’s song playing (visibly to Reigns’ chagrin), dressed in the all-black The Shield ring-wear, clearly winning the psychological aspect to his universal championship title match against the Tribal Chief. From the starting bell ring, it seemed that “The Visionary” Rollins had Reigns’ number – driving the defending champion through the commentator’s desk with an impressive one-man triple powerbomb.  He followed this amazing feat with a buckle-bomb on the champion, positioning Reigns for what could be regarded as the quickest Roll