One night before Jacy Jayne defends her NXT Women’s Championship against Jordynne Grace in singles motion at Sunday’s WWE Evolution, she will probably be in tag team motion against the team of Grace and Blake Monroe alongside her Fatal Influence teammate Fallon Henley. Grace has been pursuing the ladies’s title since before she was even an official member of the WWE roster, crossing over from TNA to make the challenge when Roxanne Perez was still champion. She then attempted to dethrone Stephanie Vaquer at each Stand & Deliver and Battleground before Vaquer dropped the title to Jayne on May 27, after which Grace again shifted her attention to the brand new titleholder.
Meanwhile, Monroe is a comparatively latest addition to the roster and is making her televised in-ring debut for the corporate, having crossed over from rival AEW despite entering 2025 as that promotion’s Women’s World Champion. This will probably be her first substantial motion since dropping that title to Toni Storm within the “Hollywood Ending” match at AEW Revolution in March, and she or he’s already within the vicinity of the NXT Women’s Champion, with a chance to stake her claim to the title — especially should she pick up the win Saturday. But before we glance to the longer term, let’s look back on the past: that is the story to date.
Blake Monroe’s debut and alliance with Jordynne Grace
Grace was among the many names to stake their claim to the NXT women’s title during Jayne’s celebration the week after she dethroned Vaquer, alongside Thea Hail, Jaida Parker, Kelani Jordan, Lash Legend, Zaria, Izzi Dame, Lola Vice, and the debuting Monroe. On the June 17 episode of “NXT,” Monroe was joined by General Manager Ava to sign her contract within the ring, prompting Jayne and Fatal Influence to interrupt — much in the identical way, they argued, she had done to Jayne during her celebration. Talking quickly turned to violence as Monroe slapped Jayne across the face, only to suffer the indignity of Henley and Jayne putting her through a table.
Elsewhere, Grace had earned her spot in the ultimate four-way of an Eliminator Tournament with the Evolution title shot on the road; she defeated Vice to qualify from the primary round, and every week on from Monroe’s contract signing, she was victorious over Parker, Legend, and Dame. She had little or no time to have fun the victory, nevertheless, emerging the week after that to deal with her incumbent title match before over again Fatal Influence emerged and swiftly sought to beat down Jayne’s latest challenger. Monroe wound up making the save as Grace looked to fall victim to the numbers game, prompting Ava to announce the tag team match with Grace and Monroe teaming to tackle Jayne and Henley, a prelude to the title match the subsequent night with the looming cloud of a rumored heel activate the way in which.