WWE shocked wrestling fans on this week’s Friday Night SmackDown by announcing that one of the wrestlers coming back to the company for this year’s Women’s Royal Rumble would be reigning Knockouts Champion Mickie James from Impact Wrestling. This was a surprise for many reasons — WWE hardly ever acknowledges the existence of other wrestling promotions much less bring a wrestler in from one for a pay-per-view match and James’ departure from WWE last year led to the infamous “Trash Bag Gate” incident. But now that James successfully defended her title against Deonna Purrazzo at this weekend’s Hard to Kill event, the idea that she’ll be Impact’s reigning women’s champion walking into one of WWE’s biggest annual events is a reality.
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I Claim to be the Wrestling God. He claims to be The Head of the Table. With all this Forbidden Door talk….. what if 🤔….,, @WWERomanReigns
