
In TLC’s opening match R-Truth & Carmella defeated the team of Alicia Fox & Jinder Mahal to win the second annual Mixed Match Challenge. The dance breaking duo were declared victorious after former SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella made Alicia Fox tap.
Both Carmella and R-Truth have now earned the opportunity to enter their respective Royal Rumble matches at #30. The team also received an all expense paid vacation to anywhere in the world, but after their victory R-Truth claimed to have already taken care of those details and announced that the two would be going somewhere ‘tropical’: WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
R-Truth and Carmella succeed last year’s Mixed Match Challenge winners Asuka & The Miz. While last year’s victorious duo did not receive the #30 spots in the 2018 Royal Rumble, Asuka did go on to win the first ever Women’s Royal Rumble and parlayed her historic victory into a SmackDown Women’s Championship match against Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 34.
There have only been three Superstars in history to win the Royal Rumble from the #30 spot: The Undertaker, John Cena, and Triple H.
Readers may stay with WrestleZone throughout the evening for full TLC coverage.
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: WWE superstar Carmella poses for photographs during her visit to One World Observatory in advance of SummerSlam on August 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)
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Carmella, Daniel Bryan & The Usos
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: (L-R) General manager of SmackDown Daniel Bryan, WWE superstars Carmella, Jimmy Uso and Hall of Famer Jey Uso pose for photographs during their visit to One World Observatory in advance of SummerSlam on August 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: WWE superstar Carmella poses for photographs during her visit to One World Observatory in advance of SummerSlam on August 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: WWE superstar Carmella poses for photographs during her visit to One World Observatory in advance of SummerSlam on August 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: WWE superstar Carmella speaks with the media during her visit to One World Observatory in advance of SummerSlam on August 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: WWE superstar Carmella speaks with the media during her visit to One World Observatory in advance of SummerSlam on August 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)