asuka won the women's 2018 royal rumble.
asuka won the women's 2018 royal rumble.
who won the women's 2018 royal rumble?
asuka
on january 28, 2018, naomi competed in the inaugural women's royal rumble match at the 2018 royal rumble, entering at number 20 and lasting 06:49 before she was eliminated by nia jax. on the wrestlemania 34 kickoff show, naomi went on to win the inaugural wrestlemania women's battle royal by eliminating bayley. in june, naomi competed in her first money in the bank ladder match at the money in the bank pay–per–view, where she and the other six competitors were defeated by alexa bliss. in september, naomi aligned with asuka, and the two began a rivalry against the iiconics (billie kay and peyton royce). this led to a tag team match between the two teams on october 6 at wwe super show-down, where asuka and naomi were defeated. three weeks later, she took part in the first ever all women's pay–per–view, evolution on october 28, competing in a women's battle royal match, which was won by jax. in november at survivor series, naomi competed in a traditional elimination tag team match as part of team smackdown, where she was the first woman eliminated from the match by tamina. in december, naomi received her first title shot in over a year as she unsuccessfully challenged her former ally asuka for the smackdown women's championship.
naomi (wrestler)
the royal rumble match traditionally involves 30 wrestlers and usually lasts an hour (the 2011 edition had a 40-man field). the greatest royal rumble (the only edition to have a 50-man field) was the longest, lasting one hour and 17 minutes of a five-hour pay-per-view event while the first televised rumble match in 1988 involved only 20 men and lasted 33 minutes of the two-hour broadcast. the 1998 royal rumble nominally had the traditional 30-man field, but only 28 individual wrestlers competed as mick foley entered the royal rumble match three different times—first as his cactus jack gimmick, then as his mankind gimmick, and finally as his dude love gimmick. the 2018 royal rumble was the first to include a women's royal rumble match, contested under the same rules as the men's match, including having 30 participants.
royal rumble match