carmella won the smackdown women's championship at wrestlemania.
carmella won the smackdown women's championship at wrestlemania.
who won the smackdown women's championship at wrestlemania?
carmella
after two months of inactivity, naomi made her return on the january 24, 2017, episode of "smackdown live", igniting a feud with bliss. she went on to pin bliss in tag team matches on two separate occasions at the royal rumble and on "smackdown live". on february 12, naomi competed against bliss at elimination chamber, where she was victorious, becoming the smackdown women's champion for the first time in her career as well as the first african-american woman to capture the title. the following tuesday, she was forced to relinquish the title due to a legitimate injury she sustained during the match. on april 2, naomi made her in-ring return in a six-pack challenge in her hometown of orlando at wrestlemania 33, where she made bliss submit, successfully regaining the smackdown women's championship. two days later, naomi defeated bliss in a rematch to retain the championship, ending the feud between the two. on the april 18 episode of "smackdown live", naomi was defeated by charlotte flair in a non-title match, resulting in flair earning a match for the smackdown women's championship the following week, which ended in a no contest after an interference by natalya, carmella, and tamina. on may 21, naomi, flair, and lynch were defeated by natalya, carmella, and tamina in a six-woman tag team match at backlash. on june 18, naomi defeated lana to retain the smackdown women's championship at money in the bank. she then went on to retain the title over lana two more times on the june 27 and july 4 episodes of "smackdown live". in july, naomi debuted a customized title belt with glow-in-the-dark lights of various colors. on august 20 at summerslam, naomi dropped the smackdown women's championship to natalya, ending her reign at 140 days. on november 19 at survivor series, naomi competed in a 5-on-5 elimination tag team match, where she eliminated raw team captain alicia fox, before she herself was eliminated by sasha banks, with her team ultimately losing the match.
naomi (wrestler)
at wrestlemania 35, becky lynch defeated ronda rousey and charlotte flair in a winner takes all triple threat match to win both the raw and smackdown women's championships. she was then double booked to defend both championships at money in the bank. for the raw women's championship, nxt call-up lacey evans attacked the double champion on both "raw" and "smackdown" following wrestlemania. evans was subsequently drafted to raw during the superstar shake-up and defeated natalya to earn a raw women's championship match. for the smackdown women's championship, former champion charlotte flair took offense that she lost her title despite not being the one who was pinned at wrestlemania. lynch exclaimed that she would not freely give flair a rematch and demanded new challengers. among the named challengers was new smackdown draftee bayley. flair then defeated bayley to earn a smackdown women's championship match.
money in the bank (2019)