Dusty Classic & Women’s Dusty Classic Matches Taking Place On 205 Live

Two Dusty Classic matches will take place this Friday.

This week the first round of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic wraps up as the Women’s tournament kicks off. Interesting thought, one match from each tournament will be taking place this week on 205 Live.

WWE has announced that in the Men’s tournament Timothy Thatcher and Tommaso Ciampa will take on Tony Nese and Ariya Daivari. In the Women’s tournament, Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell will be taking on Gigi Dolin and Cora Jade. This will be the first-ever women’s match on 205 Live.

History will be made on Friday’s edition of 205 Live, as Gigi Dolin and Cora Jade will combine forces against Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell in what will be the first-ever women’s match on the purple brand, while Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher team up against Tony Nese and Ariya Daivari two days after nearly tearing each other to shreds on NXT in the Fight Pit.

LeRae and Hartwell will likely enter their Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Match as the favorites, having aligned after LeRae took the impressionable Hartwell under her wing to form The Way alongside Johnny Gargano and Austin Theory.

They would be wise not to take their opponents lightly, however, as Gigi Dolin and Cora Jade step onto the purple brand with nothing to lose and a golden opportunity to turn some heads in the eight-team tournament.

Speaking of new teams, Ciampa and Thatcher will form a seemingly tenuous alliance for their Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Match after a pair of savage bouts against one another, as Ciampa defeated Thatcher at NXT TakeOver: WarGames before “The Professor of Pain” got payback with a win in the Fight Pit.

This match with Thatcher and Ciampa is the final match in the 1st round of the Men’s Dusty Cup and the LeRae and Hartwell match is the second match in the first round of the Women’s Dusty Cup.