It was announced earlier this week that Bobby Roode and Charlotte would be pairing up for the upcoming Mixed Match Challenge series that will air on Facebook Watch directly after SmackDown Live for the next several weeks.

BREAKING: @MsCharlotteWWE and @REALBobbyRoode have been named a team by #SDLive General Manager @WWEDanielBryan for @WWE Mixed Match Challenge! #WWEMMC https://t.co/G1f66a7Qmo

— WWE (@WWE) January 3, 2018

Dave Meltzer reported in the latest issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE decided to pair the two together so that they could be called “The Robe Warriors.”

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WWE announced the Mixed Match Challenge brackets for the upcoming Facebook Watch series. Here is what they sent out:

“WWE Mixed Match Challenge will premiere this Tuesday night at 10 ET/7 PT, exclusively on Facebook Watch. As first revealed by Cathy Kelley on Facebook, the full bracket has now been established.

All six first-round matches will feature a Raw team taking on a SmackDown LIVE team. On the Jan. 16 premiere, Finn Bálor & Sasha Banks will go head-to-head against Shinsuke Nakamura & Natalya.

In the ensuing weeks, the remaining first-round matches will be carried out as follows:

Week 2: The Miz & Asuka vs. Big E & Carmella

Week 3: Braun Strowman & Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. Sami Zayn & Becky Lynch

Week 4: Goldust & Alicia Fox vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champion Jimmy Uso and Naomi

Week 5: Elias & Bayley vs. Rusev & Lana

Week 6: Apollo Crews & Nia Jax vs. Bobby Roode & SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair

The semi-finals will include a special “second chance fan vote” in which the WWE Universe will have the ability to give an eliminated team a second chance in the tournament.

Don’t miss a moment of the ground-breaking tournament when it premieres this Tuesday, Jan. 16, exclusively on Facebook Watch at 10 ET/7 PT. Follow the official WWE Mixed Match Challenge Facebook page for all updates.”

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Vince McMahon is “pulling out all the stops” for the new Facebook Watch show, WWE Mixed Match Challenge.

According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, McMahon wants to impress Facebook’s top executives and get attention of other streaming services so that WWE can have more doors open to them in 2019 when their TV contract with NBC Universal expires.

Mixed Match Challenge is not expected to tie into on-going storylines on RAW or SmackDown.

Nix Jax and Enzo Amore are expected to team up on the show and it’s very possible that other real-life couples such as Jimmy Uso & Noami and Lana & Rusev team up on the show.

Facebook will be paying WWE for the distribution rights to the show, which will have a 12 week run. WWE wants to see how the revenue pans out for this show.

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Starting January 16th and for the next 12 weeks after, 205 Live will be moving to a new start time of 10:30PM. In it’s place, WWE Mix Match Challenge will air in it’s spot until the new Facebook Watch series concludes.

More details about WWE’s new Mix Match Challenge show can be read at this link.

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