Champion vs. Champion: SmackDown’s Becky Lynch Calls Out Ronda Rousey
Two of the most hyped matches on WWE’s first all-women pay-per-view were the RAW Women’s Championship match between Ronda Rousey and Nikki Bella and the SmackDown Women’s Championship match between Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair. In fact, the latter was the first ever main roster WWE Last Woman Standing match.
In that match, Lynch incapacitated her opponent to the point that she could not stand to answer a ten-count by the referee, retaining her title in the process. Backstage, she and Rousey sized each other up. A Champion vs. Champion match between them was soon announced for WWE Survivor Series on November 18.
But on this week’s episode of SmackDown LIVE, the “Irish Lass Kicker” cut her first promo on the “Baddest Woman on the Planet.” After saying her Evolution match proved she is “the man” of both the RAW and SmackDown locker rooms, she addressed Rousey:
“Ronda, you call yourself the ‘Baddest Woman on the Planet,’ but what planet? Because every single woman that you’ve stepped in the ring with was already beaten before the opening bell. But that’s not how I’m built. I have traveled the world to smash people like you. So let me get this straight. I didn’t come here to cosplay or talk about a reality TV show, I’m just walking into Survivor Series to rip your arm off.”
After that, Lynch dropped the mic and raised her title high, showing no trepidation