Bianca Belair sounds confident ahead of this one, but we’ll see how it plays out. She’s out of the gate quickly, trying to ground IYO SKY and then knocking her down. Belair smashes SKY into the apron a few times, then pulls off a stalling vertical suplex and her handspring moonsault for a near fall.
A dropkick sends SKY back into the corner, but she dodges a corner charge and starts working over Belair’s right leg. The champ continues that strategy, pausing only for a quick cover.
IYO smashes Bianca’s face into the canvas before returning to her leg assault, then pulls off a double stomp to the chest. Back to the right leg goes SKY, this time with a leglock on the mat. Belair manages to use several repeated right hands to free herself.
SKY tries for a legdrop off the top rope but finds no one home. She also misses a jump into the corner, and Belair treats her to a fallaway slam. But Bianca is selling her right knee a lot, even as she pulls off three body slams in a row.
A tilt-a-whirl gutbuster allows Belair to cover for two, albeit slowly due to her knee. Bianca ends up in the Tree of Woe, where SKY delivers a dropkick to the knee. IYO covers but only gets two …
… so she immediately returns to a stretch muffler on the right leg. Belair shows off her crazy power with an overhead release suplex for two. Another power move gets the same result for Bianca, who stays down a bit trying to recover her strength.
After SKY’s next near fall, the champ seems a little put off that Bayley is out at ringside. The champ barely escapes a KOD attempt, guillotining her challenger on the top rope and smashing Bianca in the face with knee shots.
SKY pulls off a top rope moonsault to the floor, landing hard in the process. She hits a springboard dropkick back in the ring and covers but only gets two again.
Bayley looks nervous as Belair gets the next two count, but SKY is able to avoid a handspring moonsault. Belair hits a facebuster, but Bayley is on the apron to distract the ref and prevent the count. She takes a right from Bianca for that, then a springboard plancha to boot. SKY makes it worse by accidentally clocking here teammate before she’s sent into the barricade.
It looks like Bayley is going to suffer an even worse fate, but someone arrives to hit Belair with a back elbow … it’s a returning Kairi Sane. That allows SKY to get her Over the Moonsault in, which is enough for her to retain the title.
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