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The 2018 WWE Mae Young Classic tournament is scheduled for August 8 and 9, 2018 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. This post will contain the bracket information for the lineup of matches as well as my predictions for the tournament's winners.

The Mae Young Classic 2018 spoilers and results will be updated along with the tapings, while this page will be altered to reflect newer opinions whenever more information is announced and the tournament has begun..

WWE Mae Young Classic 2018 Tournament

The following are the participants of the tournament in alphabetical order:

Aerial Monroe
Allysin Kay
Ashley Rayne (Madison Rayne)
Deonna Purrazzo
Hiroyo Matsumoto
Io Shirai
Isla Dawn
Jessie Elaban
Jinny
Kacy Catanzaro
Kaitlyn
Karen Q
Kavita Devi
Killer Kelly
Lacey Lane
Meiko Satomura
Mercedes Martinez
Mia Yim
MJ Jenkins
Nicole Matthews
Priscilla Kelly
Rachel Evers
Reina González
Rhea Ripley
Taynara Conti
Tegan Nox
Toni Storm
Vanessa Kraven
Xia Brookside
Xia Li
Zatara
Zeuxis

* Possible candidates for alternates include, but aren't limited to: Crystal, Jessamyn Duke, Marina Shafir, Shadia Bseiso, Vernice Gabriel




Since I was unaware of a good number of these women, my first look at them was in the Parade of Champions special.

For those who want to know, I had obviously been exposed to the people from last year's tournament (Kavita Devi, Mercedes Martinez, Mia Yim, Rachel Evers, Reina Gonzalez, Rhea Ripley, Taynara Conti, Toni Storm and Xia Li) as well as Kaitlyn, Ashley Rayne and Deonna Purrazzo, and momentarily the women from the NXT UK tournament special (Isla Dawn, Jinny and Killer Kelly). The rest were just names and faces for the most part.

I actually didn't get any good read on any of them as potential winners, so my gut reaction was to just throw my hands up in the air and say "I don't know, they seemed to make a big deal abut Io Shirai and Tegan Nox. Let's go with one of those two."


Since the tapings are going to spoil mostly everything, it's hard for me to give predictions without even knowing the bracket structure at the time. However, in a general sense, I'd say Io Shirai stands out to me as the potential winner.