AEW reveals bracket for inaugural Women's World Tag Team Championship

All Elite Wrestling unveiled the bracket for its tournament to crown the inaugural AEW Womens World Tag Team Champions on the October 22 episode of Dynamite, and the eight-team field will begin first-round matches next Wednesday at the Bayou Music Center in Houston. The announcement coincides with comments from ROH Womens World Champion Athena, who said the promotion’s president has considered staging an all-womens event but that the timing must be right.

The tournament bracket sets up these first-round pairings: Queen Aminata and Jamie Hayter versus Julia Hart and Skye Blue of the Sisters of Sin; Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron versus Mercedes Moné and Athena; Alex Windsor and Riho versus Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa; and Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford versus Tay Melo and Anna Jay. Queen Aminata and Hayter earned the right to pick their first-round opponents by winning a four-way match on Dynamite and selected the Sisters of Sin. Moné and Athena formalized their partnership in a backstage segment, and Nightingale and Cameron have begun referring to themselves as Babes of Wrath.

Athena said in a recent interview that Tony Khan has "absolutely thought about" holding an...