A tale as old as time played out on SmackDown this week, can they coexist?
Ahead of them challenging Asuka for the WWE Women’s Title Bianca Belair and Charlotte Flair teamed up to face the WWE Women’s Tag Twam Champions Sonya Deville and Chelsea Green.
The final moments of the match had Flair get a blind tag as Belair had Green up and ready for the KOD. Flair hit a big boot on Green causing her to fall off of Belair’s shoulder. The two argue before Flair pins Green to get the victory.
The champion Asuka appears later in a locker room segment between IYO SKY and Bayley. Asuka says that if SKY considers to cash in on her then she will regret that decision forever.
SKY responds saying it doesn’t matter who wins at SummerSlam because she will be leaving as WWE Women’s Champion.
Prior to the July 21 episode of SmackDown, it was confirmed that Asuka will face both Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair in a Triple Threat at SummerSlam for the WWE Women’s Title. Flair would be in action following this announcement against a woman who will be paying very close attention to that Triple Threat – Ms. Money in the Bank IYO SKY.
The match between the two was very back and forth and was given plenty of time. The match started to breakdown when Bayley came off of commentary to cause a distraction to Flair. SKY took advantage and went for a Sunset Flip Powerbomb off the top rope. Flair was able to kick out.
A montage of Shotzi cutting her hair from last week with her maniacal laugh played on the big screen which freaked out Bayley. She kept looking around and told SKY she had to go as she retreated to backstage. SKY being left alone continued to fight off Flair.
The two continue to get near falls back and forth by trading moonsaults and even submissions. It came down to Natural Selection to put away SKY as Flair emerged victorious. Her celebration didn’t take place though as the WWE Women’s Champion Asuka attacked Flair from behind getting the last laugh.
Moments later in the women’s locker room we saw Bayley and SKY arguing about what happened out at the ring. Bayley kept telling SKY that they need to go and to worry about it later. It was then that Bayley saw her luggage was sliced up and there was a photo of her with scissors stabbed into it. Bayley and SKY fled out of the locker room.
NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton was in the crowd for the show and was seen on camera before the women’s match. She also had a dark match before the show versus Kiana James. Stratton won and reportedly played the baby face role.
WWE has announced that the WWE Women’s Championship will be defended in a Triple Threat at SummerSlam on Aug. 5. The champion, Asuka, will defend against both Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair. Since Asuka defeated Belair at Night of Champions in May and since being the first woman to hold the new belt, Belair and … Read more
Bianca Belair will finally get her rematch against Asuka for the WWE Women’s Championship on July 14th’s SmackDown. On the July 7 episode, Asuka made her way to the ring for a promo. Before she could say much, Belair’s music hit. Belair rushed to the ring and took down Asuka. As she continues to beat … Read more
Charlotte Flair took on Asuka for the WWE Women’s Championship last Friday on SmackDown. The match ended in a disqualification when Bianca Belair interfered. Over the weekend was Money in the Bank on Saturday. There was a rumor going around that Flair was going to replace someone, more specifically Zelina Vega, in the Money in … Read more
Charlotte Flair entered this week’s SmackDown in the United Kingdom attempting to become a 15-time champion. She faced a familiar foe in Asuka for the WWE Women’s Championship.
One woman who wasn’t in the match but has been upset that she hasn’t received her rematch is Bianca Belair. Adam Pearce had previously told her that she could not be at ringside for this match, so she played the game and purchased a ticket to be front row.
The final moments of the match had both Flair and Asuka on the outside. Asuka was at the barricade in front of Belair. Flair went for a big boot and Asuka pulled Belair in the way which is who Flair hit instead. Moments later once Belair composed herself, she hopped the barricade and went right after Asuka causing the disqualification. Belair continued her attack on Flair who warned her about putting her hand in her face.
Belair would stand tall in the end after hitting a KOD on both Asuka and Flair on top of the commentary table.
The other women’s match of the night was Bayley vs. Shotzi. A match that was cut last week happened tonight and it had Bayley’s spot in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match on the line. If Shotzi would have won then she would have replaced Bayley.
Bayley would win the match and remain in MITB. The final moments had IYO SKY help her Damage CTRL partner by placing her foot on the rope as Shotzi was near a count of three. This distracted Shotzi and then the referee who tried to get SKY to back off. While the official wasn’t looking, Bayley raked the eyes of Shotzi and hit her with Rose Plant to get the three count.
After the match and moments later backstage, Shotzi came running up to Damage CTRL saying she isn’t finished with them yet. The numbers game was too much for Shotzi who was taken down on top of a table. Bayley grabbed a pair of scissors as SKY held down Shotzi and cut a chunk of her hair. Bayley left with the hair in hand.
In a promo backstage, AJ Styles accepted a challenge from Karrion Kross and stated that if his woman (Scarlett) was to get involved then he has someone who can stop that as Michin appeared.
Money in the Bank takes place tomorrow at 3PM ET due to the event taking place in the UK. Diva Dirt will have a Discussion Post to talk about the show live, come join.
Charlotte Flair returned to the ring for the first time since WrestleMania on the June 23 episode of SmackDown. One week away from Flair challenging Asuka for the WWE Women’s Championship, she faced Lacey Evans.
In a short match and after Evans did her part in taunting the crowd, Flair won after applying the Figure Eight. After the match, Flair still had the submission applied as Asuka attacked her challenger. She left Flair laying in the ring as she retreated up the ramp.
Flair will be challenging Asuka next week in the UK the night before Money in the Bank.
Bianca Belair has been taking her power into her own hands and told Flair last week she will be at ringside during the title match. She wants whoever walks out as champion. This week, Belair is back in Adam Pearce’s office who says she is banned from ringside but promises her she will get her rematch.
There was a match cut from this weeks SmackDown and it was Bayley vs. Shotzi. If Shotzi won then she would have replaced Bayley in the MITB match. Now it seems Bayley will remain in the match.
It has been advertised for this Monday’s Raw on June 26 that all six members of the MITB match will meet in a Summit segment.
For the results of the Women’s Tag Team Unification Match and the return of Liv Morgan you can click here.
On the June 16 episode of SmackDown, Shotzi talked her way into a second chance to enter the Money in the Bank Ladder Match. This came after IYO SKY suffered a loss to Zelina Vega. SKY took on Vega in singles action with Bayley by ringside. The finals moment of the match had Bayley causing … Read more
The Raw Women’s Championship is now a thing of the past. Asuka is now the WWE Women’s Champion. The belt style is duplicate to the Undisputed WWE Universal Title belt that was presented to Roman Reigns last week. It just includes the white belt. There is no confirmation as of yet if the new title … Read more
A report has been provided by Fightful Select that states both Charlotte Flair and Liv Morgan will be filming an upcoming wrestling-based movie. It films in Louisville, Kentucky in June. The movie stars Emily Bett Rickards as Mildred Burke and the movie highlights her life, career, and marriage. Burke is the first NWA World Women’s … Read more
Charlotte Flair had arguably the best match over WrestleMania weekend in her loss against Rhea Ripley for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Flair gave it everything she had in the ring but wasn’t able to avoid Ripley’s dominance in the end. A report that is coming out by PWInsider is stating what may be next for … Read more
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“If you didn’t know the future of women’s wrestling is Rhea Ripley, now you know.” – Trish Stratus WWE WrestleMania 39 is set to feature the latest chapter in the rivalry between Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair when “The Nightmare” challenges “The Queen” for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. It wasn’t a rematch that many fans … Read more
In case you missed SmackDown this week, some things actually happened unlike weeks past. First, WWE confirmed that there will be a Fatal 4-way tag team bout at WrestleMania where four teams will compete in the WrestleMania Showcase. The first team to stamp their ticket is Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez. The team defeated Emma … Read more
It is being reported by the Wrestling Observer that the SmackDown Women’s Championship will be determined in the main event of WrestleMania on night one. Night one of the event takes place on Saturday, April 1. The match has been set since right after Royal Rumble when Rhea Ripley challenged the current champion, Charlotte Flair. … Read more
Over the weekend on Feb. 25, WWE’s main roster had a live house show event in Champaign, Ill. It was a Road to WrestleMania Supershow and included women from both Raw and SmackDown. And also Zoey Stark from NXT. The results from the event are as follows: Also on Feb. 25, NXT had a live … Read more
After the Feb. 24 episode of SmackDown two women’s matches are booked for next weeks show. First, after a match between Natalya and Shayna Baszler ended with Natalya tapping out, Baszler and Ronda Rousey wanted to inflict more pain. As Baszler held back Natalya, Rousey went for a running knee to the face but was … Read more
Akin to the Power 25 Rankings that WWE used to post, Diva-Dirt is announcing the debut of its own Power 15 rankings where we will evaluate all of the women’s wrestling across WWE, AEW, and Impact from the week and attempt our own ranking. (Note: We are including Royal Rumble in this week’s rankings) This … Read more
The winner of the 2023 Royal Rumble, Rhea Ripley, had an important decision to make on the Jan. 30 episode of Raw. Who was she going to face at WrestleMania 39? The Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair or the SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair. Ripley took to the ring to make her decision. She cited … Read more
The 2023 Royal Rumble is almost here! One of the fan’s favorite events of the year will take place this Saturday and it will hold the sixth women’s Royal Rumble match. A favorite match type of many, for women’s wrestling fans we weren’t able to have the full joy of the women participating in this … Read more
Currently in WWE as champions, we have Bianca Belair as the Raw Women’s Champion and more recently Charlotte Flair crowned as the SmackDown Women’s Champion. Flair made her return at the end of December and became a 14-time women’s champion after defeating Ronda Rousey in quick fashion. Rousey had just retained the gold against Raquel … Read more
For those that missed the Jan. 13 episode of SmackDown, there were two women’s matches and a segment involving SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair continuing a feud with Sonya Deville.
The first women we saw during the night was a backstage segment between Liv Morgan, Maxxine Dupri, Emma, and Raquel Rodriguez. In the locker room, both Emma and Maxxine were questioning Morgan’s desire to enter the Royal Rumble in the number one position. Emma was giving her advice more out of care whereas Maxxine pretty much said she was dumb to want to enter at number one.
Rodriguez would enter the conversation and agree with both Emma and Maxxine. Morgan took offense to this and said she recently had her palm read. She wanted Rodriguez to take a look at her palm but instead, Morgan slapped her across the face. Rodriguez said she is tired of people not realizing she is the strongest woman in the locker room. This led to a match between the two later in the night. Rodriguez also declared herself for the Rumble.
The first match was between Tegan Nox and Xia Li. It was a quick affair between the two only lasting a few minutes. The winner of the match would be Nox after she avoided a spinning kick from Li. Nox hit the Shiniest Wizard to get the pinfall victory.
Valhalla was involved in a Viking Raiders vignette calling out Drew McIntyre & Sheamus.
The second match as mentioned earlier was Morgan facing Rodriguez. Lasting a bit longer than the first women’s match, this one went to Rodriguez. As the match came to its conclusion, Morgan pulled out a table despite this not being any type of stipulation match. She set it up and placed Rodriguez on top of it on the outside. As Morgan climbed to the top, Rodriguez would roll off the table and got back in the ring. Still on the turnbuckle, Morgan went to hit a crossbody but was swatted down by Rodriguez. Rodriguez followed up with the Tejana Bomb to get the pin.
Lastly, Sonya Deville was backstage in Adam Pearce’s office demanding a rematch for the SmackDown Women’s Title against Charlotte Flair. Deville failed to get the victory last week and wants another match. Pearce explained to her that’s not how it works, she just lost and has to go to the back of the line. Deville wouldn’t accept this and said she will get her rematch essentially her way.
Moments later after a commercial break, Deville attacked Flair backstage and the two entered into a brawl. The brawl was broken up multiple times by officials but it did last a few minutes.
Updated list of 2023 Women’s Royal Rumble Participants –
Liv Morgan
Candice LeRae
Rhea Ripley
Raquel Rodriguez
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