Rhea Ripley wins NXT Women’s title from Shayna Baszler
NXT has a new Women’s Champion.
Shayna Baszler’s second reign as NXT Women’s Champion came to an end as Rhea Ripley defeated her to win the title on tonight’s NXT. The finish of the match was Ripley hitting an avalanche Riptide off of the second rope after breaking out of Baszler’s Kirifuda Clutch.
This is the second title that Ripley has won in WWE. She was the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion and held that title from August 2018 to January 2019.
Baszler had been NXT Women’s Champion since winning the title from Kairi Sane at WWE Evolution in October 2018.
Ripley was set up as Baszler’s challenger for tonight after pinning her to win the women’s WarGames match at TakeOver last month. Ripley also won the women’s traditional elimination tag match for Team NXT at Survivor Series.
Baszler vs. Ripley was the second of two title matches that took place on tonight’s NXT. Adam Cole retained his NXT Championship against Finn Balor in the opening match after Johnny Gargano made his return to television.
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