WWE Planning on Women’s Tournament This Summer

Triple H was recently interviewed on the Fox Sports “Wrestling Compadres” podcast and was asked if WWE was still planning on a women’s tournament, in the same vein as the Cruiserweight tournament and United Kingdom tournament.

Triple H mentioned that the plan for now was to have a women’s tournament this summer and it has been an issue of trying to fit it in on the schedule. He also mentioned that WWE would “scour the globe” to find talent for the tournament.

A transcript is below and you can also listen to his answer in the Soundcloud clip below, starting at the 21:30 mark.

Question: Last on the show, Stephanie McMahon mentioned an idea for the women’s talent that you were working on. Has there been any further development on that?

Triple H: Yeah. That’s another one of my big passions, to go do that, the women’s tournament, and yeah, we’re down the road a bit of… The harder thing now, in a changing landscape, is I feel like sometimes in WWE… Like, Tuesday, I’m like, this is where we’re going, right? No, changing it? Yes. On Wednesday morning you get the call like, we’re not doing that anymore. We’re going this way now. So, you look at the landscape and how much it’s changed in the last year. NXT: TakeOvers are now attached to the big 4 PPVs. Raw and SmackDown have split brands and have PPVs of their own. And when you look at the big calendar, where do you stick an event? And you have to look for a space where you go, “do it here. No, that’s not good. You’ve got the holiday and this…”

So it’s really just been a process with the women, of us finding the right time and space. [The UK tournament] worked out great with the little gap before Rumble. The women we’re probably going to do this summer, is what I’m hoping. That’s the plan anyway. And much like the cruisers, the plan is to scour the globe and maybe find the girls that are out there doing this that no one has heard of, that no one has seen, that are like these diamonds that are waiting, and bring them up. And let’s see what they can do and entertain people with the tournament and let them be exposed to these new talents and at the same time, just massively increase the opportunity and the talent pool for us.