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The WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal Match was history making as it was the first match of its kind for women on 'The Grandest Stage of Them All'.
Sure it went through a ton of controversy with its name, but on the night the focus was on the female Superstars of WWE and boy did they deliver.
The following women were already announced to compete in the match - Lana, Naomi, Liv Morgan, Ruby Riott, Sarah Logan, Natalya, Dana Brooke, Carmella, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch Mickie James, Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose.
With fourteen announced women for the twenty-strong WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal, we knew there'd be six surprise entrants. The Bella Twins denied it would be them, and rumors suggested that Trish Stratus could have been in it but, we did get the following NXT stars Peyton Royce, Dakota Kai, Taynara Conti, Kavita Devi, Bianca Belair and Kairi Sane making their main roster debuts.
The match starts with all of the women turning on Carmella, making her the first woman to be eliminated, afterward, it's Dana Brooke's turn to suffer the wrath of the rest of the match competitors as she became the second to be eliminated.
The Superstars from NXT teamed up for a while to overcome several of the women including, eliminating both members of Absolution. This led to the six women standing tall together and chanting NXT
The Riott Squad managed to rally and eventually managed to whittle down the NXT ladies as well as several other members until it basically came down to Riott Squad and Bayley and Sasha Banks. Bayley and Sasha teamed up to eliminate the Riott Squad members eventually coming face to face.
Bayley triumphed in the confrontation with her former best friend but Naomi re-entered the match having not officially been eliminated. Naomi made short work of Bayley and eliminated her to become the winner of the inaugural Women's Battle Royal winner.
I would have preferred a less screwy finish, but I did enjoy seeing the NXT women banding together. It's the first real sense of an NXT vs main roster feud we've seen since Nexxus, and I'm all in to see more of it!
