{"id":139177,"date":"2022-05-09T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=139177"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:02:29","slug":"ronda-rousey-wins-wwe-smackdown-womens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/09\/ronda-rousey-wins-wwe-smackdown-womens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey wins WWE Smackdown Women&#8217;s Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2811614012\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Ronda Rousey is the the new WWE Smackdown Women&#8217;s Champion. Rousey defeated Charlotte Flair Sunday night at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/08\/5-8-wwe-backlash-ppv-report-reigns-usos-vs-mcintyre-rk-bro-charlotte-vs-rousey-edge-vs-styles-cody-rhodes-vs-seth-rollins\/\">WrestleMania Backlash<\/a> in an &#8220;I Quit&#8221; Match to win the title, her first on the Smackdown brand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RondaRousey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RondaRousey<\/a> forces <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsCharlotteWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MsCharlotteWWE<\/a> to scream &quot;I QUIT!&quot; at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WMBacklash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WMBacklash<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tLwkU79knO\">pic.twitter.com\/tLwkU79knO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1523481319941894144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rousey and Flair battled all around the arena and using various weapons including kendo sticks, chairs, and other weapons. Both regularly attempted to get the other to say &#8216;I Quit,&#8221; but in the end it was Rousey that got the job done. Rousey executed her patented armbar on Flair, while Flair&#8217;s arm was wedged inside of a steel chair. After a few seconds, Flair screamed &#8220;I Quit&#8221; to give Rousey the victory. Later on the show, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1523487607690129408\">Kayla Braxton<\/a> revealed that Flair suffered a broken arm, something that Rousey said she would do throughout the build to the match.<\/p>\n<p>This is Rousey&#8217;s second run with a women&#8217;s world title in WWE, but her first with the Smackdown Women&#8217;s Championship. Rousey held the Raw Women&#8217;s Championship in 2018 and 2019. She lost the belt to Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 35.<\/p>\n<p>Ronda Rousey returned to the WWE at this year&#8217;s Royal Rumble, after being away from the company for over two years having a baby. Rousey won the Royal Rumble match and faced Charlotte Flair for the Smackdown Women&#8217;s Championship at WrestleMania. Flair defeated Rousey in that match.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/08\/leclairs-wwe-wrestlemania-backlash-2022-report-alt-perspective-detailed-coverage-of-mcintyre-rkbro-vs-bloodline-flair-vs-rousey-rhodes-vs-rollins-more\/\">LECLAIR\u2019S WWE WRESTLEMANIA BACKLASH 2022 REPORT: Alt perspective, detailed coverage of McIntyre &amp; RKBro vs. Bloodline, Flair vs. Rousey, Rhodes vs. Rollins, more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2710414134\"><div id=\"pwtor-1717677349\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ronda Rousey is the the new WWE Smackdown Women&#8217;s Champion. Rousey defeated Charlotte Flair Sunday night at WrestleMania Backlash in an &#8220;I Quit&#8221; Match to win the title, her first on the Smackdown brand. .@RondaRousey <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/09\/ronda-rousey-wins-wwe-smackdown-womens-championship\/\" title=\"Ronda Rousey wins WWE Smackdown Women&#8217;s Championship\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":139178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[564,6548,71],"class_list":["post-139177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-wrestlemania-backlash","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/05\/Ronda-Rousey-SD-Champion.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139179,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139177\/revisions\/139179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}