WWE opened its SummerSlam pay-per-view on Saturday July 30, 2022 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee with the highly anticipated rematch from last year’s show, one that ended in 26 seconds.
Bianca Belair once again came into the big show as champion, this time holding the Raw women’s title, and defended it against Becky Lynch.
But there was no repeat of last year. Instead of a shock finish early, we got a back-and-forth battle between two wrestlers who know each other well and were ready for the offense the other was bringing to the match.
Early on, it looked that Becky Lynch may have hurt her shoulder, but she went ahead and worked the match like normal.
In the end, Belair did enough by kicking out of a Manhandle Slam and going big with a Spanish Fly and following up with a KOD to score the pinfall to retain her title.
After the match, a defeated Becky Lynch offered her hand to Bianca. When she took it, Lynch leaned into her and Belair embraced her.
Bianca Blair Crawford born Bianca Nicole Blair; April 9, 1989) is an American professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Bianca Belair, and is the current Raw Women’s Champion in her first reign.
Blair attended Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she succeeded in many sports such as track. Blair was a track and field athlete, who competed in the hurdles.
She first attended the University of South Carolina and then Texas A&M University, and later did not compete at all for a year, before completing her college career at the University of Tennessee, where she became All-SEC and All-American as well as being named to the SEC’s academic honor roll in 2011 and 2012.
Bianca Belair was also a CrossFit competitor and powerlifter, having appeared in RX magazine, Femme Rouge magazine, and CrossFit.com. Blair was forced to abandon her CrossFit career due to intercostal chondritis, also known as shifting rib syndrome.
