Rhea Ripley is the new WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion.
Ripley defeated Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania Night One at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday night, to become the new champion.
Below is an excerpt from Mike Tedesco’s WrestleMania Night One recap of how it all went down.
Flair and Ripley exchange blows from their knees. The crowd is going wild for this. They light each other up with vicious forearms before Ripley kicks her in the head. Flair then kicks Ripley in the face and applies the Figure Four Leglock! Ripley immediately gets to the bottom rope and screams at Flair. Flair is frustrated that she finally got her father’s Hall of Fame signature hold applied and it’s immediately broken up. Ripley is on the apron. Flair shoves her into the ring post and pulls her up to the top rope. Flair goes for an exploder superplex, but Ripley elbows out and bounces her off the ring post. Flair isn’t moving. Ripley smiles and sees her opening. Ripley climbs to the second rope and hits the limp, unconscious Charlotte Flair with a Riptide for the win!