Paddy Power has revealed the betting odds for the Women’s Royal Rumble match ahead of tonight’s event in Philadelphia. Asuka is still the odds on favorite to win the match, followed by Ronda Rousey. Rousey denied reports earlier this week that she would participate in the match.

Here are the top ten for the match:

Asuka: 11/8
Ronda Rousey: 6/4
Stephanie McMahon: 10/3
Becky Lynch: 6/1
Nia Jax: 6/1
Nikki Bella: 12/1
Sasha Banks: 12/1
Charlotte Flair: 14/1
Alexa Bliss: 16/1
Bayley: 16/1

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Sky Sports recently interviewed Sasha Banks. Here are some highlights from the interview:

Sasha Banks on the case for women’s tag team titles: “I would love that. I think we have enough women on the roster now to actually have a women’s tag division. We’ve been given multiple storylines but at the same time, it’s very hard to accomplish something if you’re not actually fighting for anything. Only one woman can go after the women’s championship and I think if we had tag team championships we’d be able to create way more interesting storylines. We have tag matches all the time, every single week, so I say why not get a championship involved in that?”

Sasha Banks on her rivalry with Bayley: “That rivalry with Bayley is something I would love to pick back up because she has my number and that annoys me. I am the greatest women’s wrestler ever and I want to show the world that. I’m in no rush for it. I plan on being in WWE for a long time and that’s something we can pick up at any time.”

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Russo is joined on today’s show by Big Vito.

Russo mentions that rumours are circulating regarding the status of Paige’s in-ring career. Apparently she has been forced to retire after taking a kick to the back area from Sasha Banks at a recent live event, and Russo thinks this entire thing could have been avoided.

He doesn’t want to criticize Sasha Banks too heavily because she probably already feels terrible about this situation. However, over the last couple years he’s seen Sting and now Paige forced into retirement due to reckless in-ring work that should have never happened.

Russo recalls watching Seth Rollins throwing Sting around like a rag doll during their match a couple of years ago. He’s sure Sting agreed to do whatever Rollins wanted during the match, but Rollins should have been smarter and protected Sting, given that Sting was in his mid-50s at the time.

Fast-forwarding to today, it was known that Paige has had issues with her neck and spine for the last little while. Instead of protecting her opponent as her job description outlines, Banks kicked Paige right in the back from behind. Russo points out that part of working in the wrestling business is protecting your opponent, and much like Rollins with Sting, Banks failed to protect Paige during this match.

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Paige took to her Twitter account for the first time since of the news broke that she may be forced into early retirement after suffering an injury in a match against Sasha Banks three weeks ago. She simply posted a photo of herself, which doesn’t give much insight to her situation.

pic.twitter.com/Jd6mjbLNGp

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) January 15, 2018

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WWE announced that Lana will team with Rusev for the upcoming Mixed Match Challenge series.

It's going to be a VERY Happy #RusevDay on @WWE Mixed Match Challenge when @RusevBUL teams up with his wife @LanaWWE! #WWEMMC pic.twitter.com/IAOLBcquGl

— WWE (@WWE) January 4, 2018

Here is the updated list of teams for the show:

* Bobby Roode & Charlotte
* Braun Strowman & Alexa Bliss
* Finn Balor & Sasha Banks
* Lana & Rusev

Mixed Match Challenge kicks off on Tuesday, January 16th directly after SmackDown Live on Facebook Watch.

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Austin welcomes Sasha Banks and Bayley to the show.

Bayley mentions that her and Banks have been working a lot of live events as a tag team recently, but they haven’t really been told that they’re going to be a team moving forward. Banks thinks they work well together but they haven’t really implemented any ‘team’ moves yet so she thinks they can do more of that in the future. They both enjoy working with each other as a team, but they also miss working solo matches from time to time.

Austin mentions that when you break into the wrestling business at first you travel with multiple people from town to town. As you begin to make more money you start to travel alone or you find one other person to travel with. Banks and Bayley inform that they’ve paired up and they travel everywhere together. Their routine includes arriving in the town for that night’s show, eating breakfast, finding a coffee shop and then hitting the gym.

Banks informs that they’re not particular when it comes to finding hotels, and as long as the room is reasonable they’d prefer to save their money and rent cheaper rooms. She does admit that they had a terrible experience sharing a room together in a 2-star hotel one time, where they shared a twin bed with only one thin blanket. They slept with all their clothes on because they were concerned with the cleanliness of the bed.

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As previously reporter, Paige appeared to be injured at Wednesday’s WWE Live Event at MSG during a six-women tag match. The bout ended up being stopped after Paige was kicked by Sasha Banks in the face.

According to Mick Foley, Paige is okay coming out of the event. He sent out the following on Twitter regarding Paige’s status:

I am so happy to be hearing that @RealPaigeWWE is doing much better after a scary moment at the Nassau Coliseum show.

— Mick Foley (@RealMickFoley) December 28, 2017

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Correspondents at tonight’s WWE Live Event in Long Island, NY sent word that Paige may have been legitimately hurt.

Paige was involved in a six-women tag match that was was stopped and a stretcher was brought to ringside after she was kicked in the face by Sasha Banks. Paige was down for several minutes after the incident. She was eventually able to walk out of the arena on her own.

Paige injured during match at #WWEUniondale. Scary moment as stretcher brought out. This was a shoot, not a part of the show. #WWELI #WWE pic.twitter.com/6LRYqoiOfE

— Nick Hirshon (@nickhirshon) December 28, 2017

We will keep you updated if we hear anything else regarding his condition following tonight’s show.

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X-Pac opens today’s show speaking about WWE’s suspension of Rich Swann amidst domestic violence allegations. He hopes that the reports aren’t true because if they are this is a terribly tragic situation for many reasons. He recalls WWE suspending Kevin Nash for a similar set of circumstances right before his Hall of Fame induction a couple of years ago, so there’s no denying that WWE is steadfast when it comes to their zero tolerance policy regarding domestic violence.

X-Pac thought the recent interaction between Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega in Japan did wonders in building hype towards their match at WrestleKingdom 12. He wonders if we’ll see a rematch between these two when NJPW visits the United States in the new year.

He points out that Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss made history last week by wrestling a match in India. The women have been doing incredible things over the last couple of years and they continue to break down barriers. Being the first two women to wrestle in India must have been an amazing feeling for those two women.

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Austin welcomes Sasha Banks to the show.

Banks informs that she spent the early years of her life moving from city to city, accommodating her brother who has autism. Her mother and her would spend a lot of their time caring for him, but her getaway was watching wrestling for a few hours each week.

She feels like she’s been training to be a wrestler her entire life. As a teenager she’d rent wrestling movies and take bumps on her mattress. She mentions that she never really had a backup plan other than becoming a professional wrestler and Austin says that he didn’t either, even though neither of them would recommend that.

She began training in MMA at a young age, training in Judo, Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu, but she didn’t like getting punched in the face so she started training to become a professional wrestler when she turned 18. Initially she was afraid to take bumps but she had a pep talk with herself, encouraging herself to follow her dream and stick with it. She absolutely loves taking bumps now, and she still loves the business very much.

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