Damage CTRL Articles - Page 2

Lita has been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in 2000, when she debuted on SmackDown in March following a short-yet-sweet tenure in ECW in 1999. Since her debut, she’s wrestled 328 matches for The Fed, won four singles championships, and became a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, […]

After taking care of business against Damage CTRL in an impromptu trio match on Monday Night RAW, Bianca Belair was feeling pretty good hanging out with her tag team partners, Liv Morgan, and Raquel Rodriguez. All three women secured wins over prospective challengers for their straps, and for Belair, specifically, she got valuable reps against […]

When Dakota Kai took the ring against Bianca Belair for a non-title match on Monday Night RAW, the bout effectively served two purposes for Damage CTRL. Sure, Kai certainly wanted to pull out of a win, as it would have placed her near the front of the line for a shot at the RAW Women’s […]

As things presently stand, Damage CTRL aren’t exactly in the best spot within the WWE Universe. They’ve lost every major match they’ve been in over the past two months, have no championship belts, losing the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships to Lita and Becky Lynch before WrestleMania 39, and could very well be broken up […]

While Bayley really should probably be focusing her time on her forthcoming match Dakota Kai and IYO SKY against Becky Lynch, Lita, and Trish Stratus, while discussing WrestleMania 39 on the Ring Wrestling Show, the leader of Damage CTRL just couldn’t help herself from bringing up her former best friend in WWE, Sasha Banks, and […]

After securing a momentous win on RAW, besting Dakota Kai and IYO SKY of Damage CTRL for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship belts, Lita, Becky Lynch, and their assistant in the match, Trish Stratus, were riding high, taking promotional pictures, posting on social media, and having a conversation with Cathey Kelley about what the […]

The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship was first won in February of 2019, when The Boss ‘N’ Hug Connection, Bayley and Sasha Banks, won the newly christened straps in a Tag Team Elimination Chamber match in Houston, Texas. Since then, 17 different teams have held the straps, with the title famously being vacant from May […]

Tamina has been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in 2009, when she signed on to become a member of FCW. Initially working under the name Sarona Snuka, a name she used for a few matches in World Xtreme Wrestling before landing in developmental, Tamina has gone on to work […]

Though she wasn’t booked for the Elimination Chamber, Bayley still made her way up to Canada to give WWE fans a celebration of her Damage CTRL friends, Dakota Kai and IYO SKY. Discussing their collective accomplishments on the RAW return of Ding Dong, Hello! – the second DDH of 2023 after debuting the show on […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, Becky Lynch and Bayley were finally afforded a chance to go toe-to-toe in a steel cage on RAW for the entire WWE Universe to see. Expecting a one-on-one match following a backstage beatdown on Dakota Kai on the previous edition of RAW, Lynch did find herself in a match […]

After being advertised to wrestle in a cage match against Becky Lynch at RAW XXX, Bayley shocked the professional wrestling world by marching down to the ring with her Damage CTRL pals, Dakota Kai and IYO SKY, to put a beatdown on the former WWE champ. Fans gasped, Corey Graves and Kevin Patrick were shocked, […]

Since Damage CTRL made their collective debut as a unit at SummerSlam 2022, the faction has taken the WWE Universe by storm. Despite being “designated” to the RAW roster, the faction has routinely popped up on both Mondays and Fridays thanks in no small part to the team of Dakota Kai and IYO SKY winning […]

When Damage CTRL made the rare appearance on WWE SmackDown to promote… their loss in the opening WarGames match at Survivor Series(?), it grew a huge reaction from the Buffalo fans in attendance, though maybe not in the way Bayley, Dakota Kai, and IYO SKY may have hoped. Fans cheered when Becky Lynch’s name was […]

To paraphrase an old saying, when in a WWE WarGames Match, do as the WarGames do. After reinvigorating the WarGames format in NXT during his run as the head booker, Triple H shocked the world once more when he announced that Survivor Series would feature not one but two of the double-ringed cage matches, one […]

Though it feels like just this month the WWE Universe invaded Saudi Arabia for a Roman Reigns-Logan Paul-led card at Crown Jewel – don’t check your calender, it was this month – Paul “Triple H” Levesque and his creative team are back at it again and this time, they’re bringing an extra ring for good […]

And just like that, the final spot in the 2022 WarGames match is set, as none other than “Big Tim” Becky Lynch will team up with her WWE SummerSlam opponent-turned-friend Bianca Belair, Alexa Bliss, Asuka – who she has a very long and expansive history with – and Mia Yim in their double-caged encounter with […]

Mia Yim is a very popular performer in the WWE Universe. Though she hadn’t technically recorded her first win in the ring since returning from Impact a changed woman, once she secured the W against Tamina in a relatively one-sided singles victory, the services of The OC’s “Rhea Ripley neutralizer” inflated like the price of […]

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Nikki Cross didn’t just want to be a hero to the WWE Universe but something more; she wanted to be super. She had the Hurricane Helms-approved mask, the tights, and an unbreakable smile in the hopes of inspiring kids young and old to live their best […]

Heading into the second match at WWE Crown Jewel, a rematch of the Women’s Tag Team Championship match run on RAW that saw the Damage CTRL duo of Dakota Kai and IYO SKY dethroned as champs, Alexa Bliss had more than just the match on her mind. Wrestling with Asuka, her impromptu partner who helped […]

Just when you thought the shape of the WWE Universe was more or less set heading into Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia, Paul “Triple H” Levesque messed around and decided to switch the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships on a whim to give Asuka and Alexa Bliss a massive win over the Damage CTRL duo […]

Shotzi and Raquel Rodriguez have been an impromptu tag team in WWE for about a month. Though they’ve only technically worked two tag team matches as a unit, one of which was a three-on-three bout with Damage CTRL that also featured NXT rising star Roxanne Perez, the duo have rapidly come together as a plucky […]

In the second of two championship matches booked for Extreme Rules, WWE presented fans with one simple question: who would be the face of RAW? Would it remain Bianca Belair, the uber babyface who represents the company on College GameDay, in Target commercials, and as the face of more than a few charities? Or Bayley, […]

After enjoying a shared hatred for the Damage CTRL trio of Bayley, Dakota Kai, and IYO SKY, Raquel Rodriquez and Shotzi don’t-call-her-Blackheart finally shared the ring in a right proper match versus Xia Li and Sonya DeVille, Meghan Morant of SmackDown and the SmackDown LowDown asked the duo if they aimed to make a statement […]

For the second time in as many shows, Shotzi came to the aid of her fellow former NXT star Raquel Rodriquez while she attempted to best a member of WWE’s Damage CTRL, in a match that would routinely turn into a 3-on-1 affair. But why? Is Shotzi looking to join forces with Rodriquez? Could a […]

Bayley’s return to the WWE Universe has been a resounding success. Her return following the first match at SummerSlam generated a massive pop, her ability to play a crowd as a talker was sorely missed, and her decision to bring back two former NXT standouts, Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky, for the ride ushered in […]