

It was also announced that the event would host the final of the 2018 Mae Young Classic and that all four of WWE's women's championships at the time would be defended however, the NXT UK Women's Championship match was later removed from the main card and occurred as a dark match before the show. Hall of Famers Lita, Trish Stratus, and Beth Phoenix were advertised as taking part in the event. It was scheduled to take place on October 28, 2018, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in Uniondale, New York, replacing the previously planned Clash of Champions. On the Jepisode of Monday Night Raw, WWE executive Stephanie McMahon announced that for the first time, WWE would hold an all-women's pay-per-view and WWE Network event called Evolution.

In other prominent matches, Toni Storm defeated Io Shirai to win the 2018 Mae Young Classic, and Shayna Baszler defeated Kairi Sane to become the first two-time NXT Women's Champion. In the penultimate match, Becky Lynch defeated Charlotte Flair in a Last Woman Standing match to retain the SmackDown Women's Championship. In the main event, Ronda Rousey defeated Nikki Bella by submission to retain the Raw Women's Championship. It also featured the final of the 2018 Mae Young Classic tournament. Three of WWE's then-four women's championships were defended on the main card the fourth was defended in a dark match before the show. The main card consisted of seven matches.

It was the first and currently only WWE pay-per-view to consist solely of women's matches.

It took place on October 28, 2018, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in Uniondale, New York. WWE Evolution was a women's professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event, produced by WWE for their Raw, SmackDown, NXT, and NXT UK brand divisions. Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
