LAS VEGAS – Iyo Sky will stroll into WrestleMania as a girls’s champion for the second straight 12 months, however the match on Sunday night time will likely be much more difficult than it was in Philadelphia.
Sky defeated Rhea Ripley for the Girls’s World Championship weeks earlier than WrestleMania 41, and it was thought she would solely be defending it in opposition to Bianca Belair. Nevertheless, Ripley inserted herself into the match, making it a triple risk for the title.
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Iyo Sky in the course of the Girls’s Royal Rumble in the course of the WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Feb. 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures)
Since then, Ripley and Belair have taken turns pushing Sky out of the best way as they talked trash with one another. Sky, although shorter than them, made clear she wasn’t going to take any extra disrespect from the 2 former champions.
Dakota Kai, a longtime good friend of Sky’s and former Harm CTRL stablemate, instructed Fox Information Digital she didn’t perceive the place the disrespect got here from.
“She’s champion right now, you know what I mean? But I think with Rhea and Bianca, they’re so caught up in the issues that they have, they’re not even considering her a threat, but she’s champion for a reason,” Kai stated forward of WrestleMania 41 Night time 2. “She’s been my favourite for years even earlier than she was on the Stardom scene.
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Iyo Sky wins the SmackDown Women’s Championship in 2023. (WWE)
“I additionally assume Iyo thrives being the underdog although. I feel she’s going to tug out a number of stops on Sunday to indicate them like, ‘Hey, you’ve been overlooking me these previous couple of weeks, I’m champion for a motive.'”
Sky lost to Bayley in a women’s title match at WrestleMania 40. Bayley was cast out of Damage CTRL in the weeks after she won the 2024 women’s Royal Rumble match.
Kai suggested that Bayley’s win was a driving force for Sky.
“She’s coming into WrestleMania once more as champion, and he or she undoubtedly desires to retain it clearly – who wouldn’t? I feel, for her, she undoubtedly has one thing to show to return out of the match on prime, which she is,” she stated.
Bianca Belair makes her entrance to the ring for a Money in the Bank qualifying triple threat match during WWE SmackDown at Allstate Arena on June 21, 2024, in Rosemont, Illinois. (Getty Images)
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Sky will look to walk out of Allegiant Stadium as champion.
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