WWE Evolution

WWE Evolution (2018)

"WWE's First-Ever All-Women's Event"

It will be the first pay-per-view in WWE history to be comprised entirely of women's matches. All of WWE's women's championships will be defended at the event. It will also feature the finals of the 2018 Mae Young Classic tournament

Date of release
2018-10-28
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (26)
Runtime
3h 16m
Genres
Action, Drama
Director
Kevin Dunn

Casting

Interesting facts

The 2018 Evolution was a women's professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the inaugural Evolution and was held exclusively for women from WWE's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown, and developmental brands, NXT and NXT UK. The event took place on October 28, 2018, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. This was WWE's only PPV and livestreaming event to consist solely of women's matches until 2025.

Production

On the July 23, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw, WWE executive Stephanie McMahon announced that for the first time, WWE would hold an all-women's professional wrestling event titled Evolution. The event was scheduled to take place on October 28, 2018, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, featuring women's wrestlers from the main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown, and the developmental brands, NXT and NXT UK.

WWE Hall of Famers Lita, Trish Stratus, and Beth Phoenix were advertised as taking part in the event. It was also announced that the event would host the final of the 2018 Mae Young Classic and that all four of WWE's women's championships at the time would be defended; however, the NXT UK Women's Championship match was later removed from the main card and occurred as a dark match before the show.

WWE's executive vice president Paul "Triple H" Levesque explained that WWE's female performers "deserve[d] the opportunity" for a prominent showcase, and that it "was simply the right time for this to happen". He denied that the event was intended to be as a counterpoint for Crown Jewel—a subsequent major event days later in Saudi Arabia that, per the country's women's rights policies, would not include WWE's female performers at the time.

A documentary special entitled "Road to Evolution" was broadcast on the USA Network ahead of the event, as well as the E! Network following the premiere of the sixth episode of Total Divas's eighth season. Internationally, the special was made available on the WWE Network.

The event comprised seven matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, NXT, and NXT UK brands, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live, and NXT.

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