9 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2018

7. Women’s Triple Threat All Action

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Carmella as SmackDown Women’s Champion has been a poor man’s version of the Honky Tonk Man’s Intercontinental Championship reign. She clearly was outmatched by her opponents but managed to hang onto her title in bouts that underwhelmed.

But with Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch challenging ‘Mella in a triple threat, it was a recipe for success, with the two veterans guiding the fast-paced match through a series of near-falls and submission holds. Lynch hit a top rope legdrop to break up a Figure-Four, and Charlotte nailed a twisting moonsault to the floor. Carmella even busted out a suicide dive and held up her end of the bout.

In the end, it was Charlotte hitting Natural Selection on Becky while she had Carmella in a Disarm-her. Just like that, Charlotte is a seven-time women’s champion. That was all good, but even better, it led to…

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.