{"id":53868,"date":"2018-01-11T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=53868"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:06:09","slug":"wwe-mixed-match-challenge-brackets-released-added-twist-tournament-w-kellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/01\/11\/wwe-mixed-match-challenge-brackets-released-added-twist-tournament-w-kellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Mixed Match Challenge brackets released, added twist in tournament (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2629367016\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>WWE has announced the brackets for the Mixed Match Challenge. The brackets include a chance for fans to vote a losing team back into the tournament to be part of the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>-WEEK 1: Finn Balor &amp; Sasha Banks vs. Shinsuke Nakamura &amp; Natala<br \/>\n-WEEL 2: The Miz &amp; Asuka vs. Big E &amp; Carmella<\/p>\n<p>-WEEK 3: Braun Strowman &amp; Alexa Bliss vs.\u00a0Sami Zayn &amp; Becky Lynch<br \/>\n-WEEK 4: Goldust &amp; Alicia Fox vs.\u00a0Jimmy Uso &amp; Naomi<\/p>\n<p>-WEEK 5: Elias &amp; Bayley vs. Rusev &amp; Lana<br \/>\n-WEEK 6: Apollo Crews &amp; Nia Jax vs. Bobby Roode &amp; Charlotte Flair<\/p>\n<p>So the winners of Week 1 and Week 2 faces off against the winners of Week 3 and Week 4, and the winners of Week 5 and Week 6 face the team the fans vote back in.<\/p>\n<p>The brackets are set up to have wrestlers from Raw face wrestlers from Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The show premiers Jan. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The match taped on Smackdown this week appeared to be a qualification match. You can see results of that in our HOLT report here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/01\/10\/2-9-wwe-smackdown-holt-report-happened-off-air-mixed-match-challenge-taping-crowd-reactions-attendance\/\">2\/9 WWE Smackdown HOLT Report: What happened off-air, Mixed Match Challenge taping, crowd reactions, attendance<\/a><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1799566764\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: Looking at the brackets, my total guess on the finals would be Roode &amp; Charlotte vs. Miz &amp; Asuka. My hunch is if Strowman &amp; Bliss lose, they&#8217;ll be voted back in, with Rusev &amp; Lana also in the running. It&#8217;s difficult to predict\u00a0<\/em><i>since WWE might be planning a couple angles that would work their way onto the main\u00a0shows, such as perhaps a heel turn by Roode.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3318569680\"><div id=\"pwtor-2565219271\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WWE has announced the brackets for the Mixed Match Challenge. The brackets include a chance for fans to vote a losing team back into the tournament to be part of the semi-finals. -WEEK 1: Finn <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/01\/11\/wwe-mixed-match-challenge-brackets-released-added-twist-tournament-w-kellers-analysis\/\" title=\"WWE Mixed Match Challenge brackets released, added twist in tournament (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/01\/MixedMatchChallenge_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53870,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53868\/revisions\/53870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}