Noteable by its absence, however, is the match that should be on there and is on the list of many people’s greatest women’s matches of all time, Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch for the NXT Women’s Championship at NXT Takeover Unstoppable. The list of matches players will be able to go through in the Showcase this year feature some of the most legendary women’s matches of all time, let alone in recent times, including the catalyst for everything (and my favourite match of all time), Sasha Banks vs Bayley for the NXT Women’s Championship at NXT Takeover Brooklyn 2015. And if so, 2K20 could not intentionally fallen into the perfect bit of marketing to tie into the game as a result if it tried.

Flair and Banks’ rivalry a few years ago gave the women’s revolution a more serious feel around it, Bayley and Banks’ rivalry in NXT is legendary, Lynch and Banks’ relationship on-screen has been, lets say, mixed: friends, reluctant allies and now massive rivals ahead of the pair’s match at Clash of Champions next Sunday.Īnd that’s to say the least of Flair and Lynch, once best friends but now the bitterest of enemies whose rivalry this past year has gone above the beyond as it gave the latter her now famous moniker of ‘The Man’ and who both put on the women’s MOTY at Evolution last year.īut despite many variants of the four together in tag action or in multi-women matches such as triple threats or fatal 4 ways, all four women haven’t shared the ring competitively since the Fatal 4 Way at NXT Takeover: Rival in 2015 or at all since their curtain call at NXT Takeover Brooklyn 2015.

In many variations throughout their time in NXT or WWE’s main roster, the Four Horsewomen have faced each other. Not just within WWE, but to the wider industry.Īnd honestly, 2K, who’ve today detailed what to expect for this year’s showcase, could not have picked better marketing around it if events pan out the way they are expected to following what happened on Monday Night Raw and last night’s Smackdown Live. With that in mind, WWE 2K20’s showcase mode will focus on the Horsewomen (not to be confused with the Faux Horsewomen of Ronda Rousey, Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke and Marina Shafir, all of whom are currently under WWE in some form or another) and how all four changed women’s wrestling. The collective known as the Four Horsewomen, named after a legendary group of wrestlers led by iconic 16x world champion Ric Flair, would change how women’s wrestling was perceived both internally and externally within WWE and the wrestling industry: Bayley, Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch and Ric’s daughter Charlotte Flair. And all-women’s event Evolution wasn’t just an incredible feel good show as it was the show of last year, even if it felt like it was put on for PR in light of WWE going to Saudi Arabia so soon after the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, to say of women being unable to wrestle there.īut from 2014, four young women started a quiet revolution within NXT that blew up in a massive way. Johnny Gargano – Tommaso Ciampa’s feud and the former’s arc to the NXT Championship between mid-2017 through to April of this year had the best storytelling across any medium last year. Now, that’s not to say there’s not been incredible periods within WWE over the past few years. The tail end of the Attitude Era with The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, etc being a super high period, the ‘LOLCENAWINS’ nearly making me despair, Daniel Bryan’s legendary arc through to Wrestlemania 30 reminding me of my love for it, the general quality of the product recently sticking out like a sore thumb to the point I’m no longer watching live Monday Night Raw or Smackdown Live, well, live (though the 1am UK starts certainly don’t help either). I’ve gone through periods as a wrestling fan where I’ve loved it and then nearly fell out of it only for something – or someone – to remind me why I loved it again. I make no bones about not hiding that and I have no shame in being one, although I will admit there are troublesome and problematic aspects of it that super make me question it at times. I, not unlike a good swarm of people who work in the games industry around the world, am a wrestling fan, specifically of WWE (though I do dabble with others like New Japan and AEW, but WWE is my primary place).

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