Women's Tournament Participant Predictions

This week it was announced that the Women's Tournament will have 32 participants and will be in July and end on August 22, 2017. This will be similar to what the company has recently done with the WWE Cruiserweight Classic and the WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament.Who will be participants in this tournament, this is my participant predictions here are 15 women that I think will participate in the tournament.Hope you enjoy my list and please share who you think will be in the tournament and who you want to be in the tournament. 

1.Candice LeRae

Arguably one of the indie circuits top women stars. She became the first woman to compete in PWG’s prestigious Battle of Los Angeles in 2014. She’s got more guts than most men, with athleticism and charisma to boot. She’s also recently married to NXT Superstar Johnny Gargano.Although she is currently in NXT, LeRae made her debut competing in a battle royal to determine the new #1 contender for Asuka‘s NXT Women's Championship.

2.Kairi Hojo

Many international wrestling fans consider Hojo one of, if not the best women’s wrestler in the world. March 2017, Housako signed a three-year deal with WWE. In 2016, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter called Hojo and her fellow Stardom workers Io Shirai and Mayu Iwatani "three of the best wrestlers in the world".

3.TESSA BLANCHARD

She’s a third generation wrestler. Her father is WWE Hall of Famer and Four Horseman Tully Blanchard, and her grandfather is Joe Blanchard, former NWA wrestler and the stepdaughter of Magnum TA. she’s already made a few enhancement appearances for NXT, she one of the top women’s wrestlers on the North American indie circuit.

4.KIMBER LEE

Kimber Lee was created in the brutality of CZW and has toiled for much of the past few years competing in intergender matches. She is the first woman to capture a major indie’s top belt when she won CHIKARA‘s Grand Championship last year. She recently had a tryout at the Performance Center for WWE.Much like Candice LeRae, she was a participant in the number 1 contender battle royal for the NXT Women's Championship. 

 5.IO SHIRAI

Considered by many as the top female performer in Japan, she’s also wrestled in Mexico for both AAA and CMLL, as well as being former stablemates with current NXT Women’s Champion, Asuka in WWRS’ Triple Tails faction. Another odds-on favorite to win the tournament. It's been reported that she has given her notice to World Wonder Ring Stardom and is heading to WWE.

6.VELVET SKY

Velvet sky is a former two-time TNA Women's Knockout Champion and is a former TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion as part of The Beautiful People (with Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich), with the group defending the title under the Freebird rule. On April 22, 2016, Sky left the company for the third time and she returned to the Independent scene. SHE is currently dating Mark LoMonaco, better known as Bubba Ray Dudley in WWE and Bully Ray in TNA.

7. JESSICKA HAVOK

She previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she competed under the ring name Havok and is a former one-time TNA Knockouts Champion. She regularly performed for several independent promotions, including Shine Wrestling and Women Superstars Uncensored, where she is a former two-time WSU Champion. 

8.THEA TRINIDAD

She is best known for her work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where she performed under the ring name Rosita. She currently works for other independent promotions under her real name. In TNA, she was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Sarita.Trinidad will portray AJ Lee in the upcoming film Fighting with My Family. She's engaged to fellow professional wrestler and WWE Superstar Austin Aries.

 9.SEXY STAR

 She was best known for her work in AAA, where she was a former two-time AAA Reina de Reinas Champion and a one-time AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion. She worked for Lucha Underground, where she was a former Lucha Underground Champion and Gift of the Gods Champion. She is the first woman to win the Lucha Underground Championship.  Sexy Star stunned fans when she announced she was retiring from professional wrestling. She wrapped up her recording for future seasons of Lucha Underground and left wrestling behind her to become a boxer. While a full-time return to the ring may be out of the cards, a couple of matches in an international tournament on the WWE Network may be enough to entice her back for a match or two.

10.Angelina Love

a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling under the ring name Angelina Love. In TNA, she has held the Knockouts Championship a record-tying six times and was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Winter. Outside of TNA, she works under the ring name Angel Williams. The Beautiful People original member along with Velvet Sky.

11.Victoria

Victoria debuted in June 2002, and four months later she was pushed to win the WWE Women's Championship, a title she would go on to hold twice in her wrestling career. After leaving WWE in 2009, Varon debuted in TNA later that year as Tara. In TNA, she became a five-time TNA Knockouts Champion, making her a seven-time Women's Champion overall.She was also a one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, with Brooke Tessmacher, collectively known as TnT. She currently is on the independent scene. 

12.Crazy Mary Dobson

On October 19, 2016, WWE.com announced that Bridges was among those signed to developmental contracts and they would be training at the WWE Performance Center. On November 17, Bridges made her NXT debut at the WrestleMania 33 Ticket Party, defeating Macey Estrella. Bridges made her first televised appearance for NXT on January 11, 2017, in a Tag team match, under the name Sarah Bridges, Bridges teamed with Macey Evans, in a losing effort. Though prior she was working for WWE in various appearances and matches. She is still with the company so who know maybe we are a couple months away from seeing Crazy Mary Dobson in the ring with other talented women.

 13.Bea Priestley

Bea Priestley has been turning heads in the UK wrestling scene and in her series of matches with Nixon Newell where great and showcased what she can do there is no doubt she will go far and it does help that she is a champion, WCPW Women's Champion that is which she won from Nixon Newells. She has to be on WWE's radar and if she is not she will be soon. 

14.Nixon Newell

She is best known for her work on the British independent circuit, competing for promotions such as Attack! Pro Wrestling, Progress, Fight Club: Pro and What Culture Pro Wrestling (WCPW) she currently works for all of these promotions.Newell is the inaugural WCPW Women's champion though she did lose the title to Bea Priestley who is the current champion.

15.Ivelisse

 She is currently signed to Lucha Underground under the ring name Ivelisse, where she once held the Lucha Underground Trios Championship, with Son of Havoc and Angélico. She was signed to WWE between 2011 and 2012 under the ring name Sofia Cortez, where she was a contestant on the fifth season of WWE Tough Enough, but was eliminated due to injury. Despite this, she was signed to a contract and appeared in WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling as well as WWE NXT. She is also known for her work on the independent circuit, most notably for Shine Wrestling where she is currently champion.