Iyo Sky Stuns Rhea Ripley And Bianca Belair In WrestleMania Show Stealer

Iyo Sky is still the Women’s World Champion.

With Charlotte Flair winning the Royal Rumble and challenging Tiffany Stratton, WrestleMania plans for the Women’s Championship were set well in advance. However, things were very different over on Monday Night Raw.

On Raw’s premiere on Netflix, Rhea Ripley regained the Women’s World Championship after finally getting revenge on Liv Morgan. But unfortunately for the Aussie star, her redemption run lasted only a little over 50 days.

With Ripley in possession of the gold, Bianca Belair won the Elimination Chamber to earn her shot at the title at WrestleMania. This saw Belair seated at ringside two days later when Ripley defended the title on Raw against Iyo Sky.

As the match reached its conclusion, Ripley was distracted by Belair and subsequently lost to Sky in shocking fashion. Since then, Ripley has become almost unhinged in her pursuit of revenge, something not helped by Belair calling for a double DQ while serving as special referee in a rematch with Sky.

The increasingly chaotic situation saw General Manager Adam Pearce make the WrestleMania match a Triple Threat. Not that it did much to control the action.

Iyo Sky Survives

Come showtime, Belair was booed heavily during the introductions while Sky, and particularly Ripley, were cheered to the rafters.

To her credit, Belair embraced the boos and pushed Ripley and Sky to their respective limits. The match was fought at a frantic pace, with neither woman able to gain a sustained advantage.

On more than one occasion, Ripley, Belair, and Sky appeared to have the match won, only to be thwarted at the last second. In a match where every move topped the last, Sky went for broke in the corner and attempted to hit Ripley with an avalanche poison-rana. Still, the former champion had other ideas, flipping her opponent over her head into the corner post.

Back in the ring, Ripley and Belair met in another fierce exchange that saw the latter slip out of a Rip-Tide before hitting Ripley with her braid. Belair followed up with a KOD and seemed to have the match won, but Sky fell from the sky with a huge moonsault, and pinned Belair to escape with her championship intact.