Bayley has an Egyptian motif for her ring walk, as well as a new theme that sounds like a remix on the original Damage CTRL music. IYO SKY has a hyper version of her usual entrance, and while her teammates accompany her to the stage, they don’t come to ringside.
What starts as a few lockups spills to the floor, where SKY is fine with turning it to strikes instead. Back in the ring, the champ yells but runs into trouble by the ropes. Bayley launches into a nice suicide dive that is right on target. She rolls SKY back inside and covers for two.
Bayley misses a baseball slide kick and gets her right knee smashed into the post, followed by a leglock that tortures that same knee. The announcers frame this battle as one of familiarity born from their time together as teammates.
The crowd starts singing Bayley’s traditional song as the fight goes toward the timekeeper’s area, where Bayley catches SKY coming off the barricade and slams her onto the floor. A running knee is on target for Bayley before she fires away with punches in the corner.
A side slam puts SKY down, and Bayley earns another near fall. But IYO takes back momentum and nails a moonsault to the floor, yelling out in triumph again. A missile dropkick and a kick to the back of the neck are next, but Bayley kicks out at two.
Bayley is selling the pain to her knee, but she’s still able to execute a sunset flip powerbomb and use a small package for a near fall. SKY fires back with a bridging German suplex, then another in impressive fashion even though it’s only good for two.
SKY wants a moonsault but catches knees, though Bayley maybe shouldn’t have used her knees that way. The challenger tries for a top rope elbow, but SKY moves and applies a crossface. Bayley pivots for a pinning predicament that makes the champ break the hold, but SKY reapplies it seconds later.
Bayley is dragged back to the center of the ring, where SKY switches to an STF. Hopping on one leg once she frees herself, Bayley nails the Bayley-to-Belly and still can’t keep the champ down for three.
A quick conversation while they’re locked up ends when SKY blasts Bayley with a forearm. Bayley slaps the champ and gets slapped even harder in return. They stand and trade, with SKY rolling up Bayley for two and adding more punishment on top of it.
SKY hits the Over the Moonsault and covers, and even Michael Cole is glad Bayley manages to kick out. Bayley shrugs off a moonsault and hits the Rose Plant, but SKY more or less no sells it.
Bayley is feeling the energy from the crowd, hitting a side suplex and following with a top rope elbow. A second Rose Plant is on the mark, and Bayley has done it.
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