{"id":194062,"date":"2025-03-05T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=194062"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:14:50","slug":"parkss-take-why-did-iyo-sky-beat-rhea-ripley-for-the-womens-title-why-did-she-have-such-a-meltdown-and-what-could-it-mean-for-wrestlemania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/03\/05\/parkss-take-why-did-iyo-sky-beat-rhea-ripley-for-the-womens-title-why-did-she-have-such-a-meltdown-and-what-could-it-mean-for-wrestlemania\/","title":{"rendered":"PARKS&#8217;S TAKE: Why did Iyo Sky beat Rhea Ripley for the Women&#8217;s Title, why did she have such a meltdown, and what could it mean for WrestleMania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3980505777\" 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>It&#8217;s rare for a major title to change hands this close to WrestleMania, after Elimination Chamber. Yet, that&#8217;s exactly what happened Monday night on Raw.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2291 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StaffParks09_120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"138\" \/>With Royal Rumble winner Bianca Belair taking in the action from ringside, Iyo Sky defeated Rhea Ripley to become Women&#8217;s World Champion, ending Ripley&#8217;s latest reign after just 56 days. It&#8217;s the kind of booking that gives the impression Ripley was needing time off for whatever reason. To this point, no reports of anything like that have surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>This sets up Sky vs. Belair for WrestleMania, a match that is sure to be spectacular. Of course, Ripley vs. Belair would&#8217;ve been tremendous as well.<\/p>\n<p>The way the finish unfolded leaves open the possibility of a Triple Threat: Ripley vs. Sky vs. Belair. That&#8217;s a lot less appetizing than whatever version of a singles match we could get, but it does put three deserving talents on center stage for a potential WrestleMania moment. It would somewhat water down Belair&#8217;s Rumble win, where she was presumed to earn a one-on-one match with the champion.<\/p>\n<p><em>ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOW&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Check out the latest episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Post-show covering the latest episode of Raw: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/wwe-raw-post-show-3-3-keller-adams-talk-cena-turn-fallout-punk-unleashing-on-rock-rhea-loss-with-live-chat-emails-live-callers--64687459\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to stream (or search \u201cwade Keller\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=64687459&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The question then is, &#8220;Why now?&#8221; If a Triple Threat was in the offing, why not just go in with Ripley as champion and have Sky and Belair as the challengers? It would&#8217;ve perhaps been a bit more difficult to write Sky into the match; difficult, but possible. The answer may lie in the post-match interview with a distraught Ripley that was being shared on social media after her loss. It&#8217;s a side of Ripley we&#8217;ve not often seen before, and it unlocks more of her character for the audience to latch onto. Her current character is popular, no doubt, though there don&#8217;t seem to be many more mountains left for her to climb in that iteration of Rhea Ripley.<\/p>\n<p>Iyo Sky&#8217;s title win was a surprise for sure and threw a wrench into the expected WrestleMania card. Whether she finds a way into the Women&#8217;s World Title match or not, Ripley will definitely have something important to do on the show. 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Yet, that&#8217;s exactly what happened Monday night on Raw. With Royal Rumble winner Bianca Belair taking in the action <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/03\/05\/parkss-take-why-did-iyo-sky-beat-rhea-ripley-for-the-womens-title-why-did-she-have-such-a-meltdown-and-what-could-it-mean-for-wrestlemania\/\" title=\"PARKS&#8217;S TAKE: Why did Iyo Sky beat Rhea Ripley for the Women&#8217;s Title, why did she have such a meltdown, and what could it mean for WrestleMania?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194064,"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":[52,57,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-takes_parks","category-opinion_stafftakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-05-at-2.12.05\u202fPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194062","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194065,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194062\/revisions\/194065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}