Ronda Rousey Wins SmackDown Women's Champion At WWE Extreme Rules
The Rowdy One regains title she lost to Liv Morgan this summer, avenges losses.
Ronda Rousey is your new SmackDown Women's Champion, defeating Liv Morgan at WWE Extreme Rules Saturday night.
With that victory, Rousey is now a two-time blue brand titleholder, having regained the championship she lost to Morgan at Money in the Bank this summer, when Liv cashed in her just-won briefcase on a wounded Ronda. The former UFC star also avenged a controversial loss at SummerSlam where she was pinned but the referee missed Liv tapping out seconds before.
The Extreme Rules match was a weapons-filled affair, with a bat, chairs, a fire extinguisher and a table getting involved. However, the match suffered from several awkward moments where things seemed to fall part as they lost their place or stumbled through a sequence. The result was a match that tried for epic but fell well short.
.@YaOnlyLivvOnce puts The Baddest Woman on the Planet through a table!#ExtremeRules pic.twitter.com/CFPk00SQU5
— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2022
Rousey winning though is the right call here. Morgan's underdog champion character wasn't working, as she was no longer connecting with fans and sounded a lot more whiny than anything else. And as weird as it sounds, Ronda needed the win after losing to Liv twice. A third loss would have led fans to question whether WWE could book properly.
Now, Rousey can go about mauling opponents en route to a possible WrestleMania rematch with a returning Becky Lynch... if' we're going to fantasy book things several months out.