Becky Lynch Wins The SmackDown Women’s Championship After Incredible Match

Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair built up one of the greatest rivalries in WWE, and they wrote the next chapter of that rivalry at WWE Hell in a Cell 2018 when Becky defeated Charlotte for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.

At SummerSlam, Becky Lynch had the SmackDown Women’s Championship won. She had it! Carmella was trapped in the Dis-Arm-Her with absolutely nowhere to go in the middle of the ring, and it looked like Becky was going to walk away with her second title victory after waiting almost two years for a real opportunity.

Instead, Charlotte Flair snatched the win away from Becky, hitting her former best friend with “Natural Selection” and picking up the pinfall to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship for herself. Understandably, Becky snapped after the match, and the crowd was 100% in her corner.

They’ve never left her side since.

At Hell in a Cell, Becky and Charlotte had the unenviable task of following a gruesome, brutal, and thoroughly entertaining spectacle between bitter enemies Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy.

But they didn’t just follow Orton vs. Hardy. They surpassed it.

This was an incredible match from start to finish. I absolutely love it when best friends battle each other in the ring, because the chemistry is always so good. These two knew each other’s moves perfectly well, and they had counters for everything.

That played into the finish, because Becky won in surprising fashion. After working on Charlotte’s arm throughout the match with nasty Dis-Arm-Her submissions, she countered Charlotte’s spear into a pin for the 1-2-3. And her second SmackDown Women’s Championship victory.

Becky wanted the win so badly, and you could tell just by the way this match was laid out. She kept going for those submissions, and the work paid off for her. Because all of that arm damage prevented Charlotte from having enough strength to kick out of that spear counter.

After the match, Charlotte tried to show some respect for Becky, but Lynch was having none of it. She’s grown tired of Flair taking her spotlight, and that wasn’t going to happen yet again. Becky walked away from Charlotte with the title in her hand.

I can’t wait to see what’s next for these two, and they could really up the ante at Evolution. Furthermore, Becky’s victory means that we could see an incredible Armbar vs. Armbar match between her and Ronda Rousey, who are two of the greatest wrestlers on the roster.

This was a special match, and I’m sure fans will keep watching it for years and years to come. Becky and Charlotte have told the perfect story as two former best friends who fell out for complicated reasons. Charlotte couldn’t see how much the title meant to Becky, and Becky needed to move on from someone who she felt was holding her back.

Lynch is the bad-ass antihero. Charlotte is the strong woman who has winning in her blood. This story isn’t over by any means, but, damn, did they put on a classic from an in-ring and story-telling standpoint.