Rhea Ripley is a four-time women's champion in WWE. The 'Eradicator' defeated Jade Cargill in a match-of-the-night candidate at WrestleMania 42 Night 2 at Allegiant Stadium, finishing with her Riptide for a clean three-count, but the decisive moment came at ringside when IYO SKY hit a springboard moonsault to wipe out B-Fab and Michin.
Cargill had ridden the ringside advantage from the opening bell, with B-Fab and Michin repeatedly distracting the referee and pulling Ripley out of late pinning predicaments. The planned ejection of Cargill's associates was undercut by an interrupted communication from official Chad Patton, and the match was at a genuine tipping point when IYO's music hit.
SKY's run-in was not a face turn, exactly, but a result of her own storyline with Cargill from SmackDown in March, when Cargill attacked her at a Raw-SmackDown invitational. The Japanese star used the springboard moonsault, landing on both B-Fab and Michin on the floor, and then stood over the downed duo just long enough for the crowd to read the beat. Ripley hit Cargill with the Riptide moments later to claim the title.
The loss was Cargill's first at a WrestleMania since joining WWE, and the first pinfall defeat of her main-roster run. She entered the match as the defending champion having beaten Bianca Belair, Liv Morgan and Naomi on the way to Las Vegas. The title change flips the women's division heading into the summer and opens up a Summer Slam rematch, with IYO SKY now a likely third partner in a triple threat build.
Ripley looked genuinely moved in the ring after the bell, and her post-match backstage comment, caught on WWE's social-media pass, was simply 'I got it back'. The four-title tally moves her past Asuka and onto the second rung of the post-2016 women's era behind Charlotte Flair, who remains the all-time leader with 14 combined reigns.
The Women's Championship match had been given the penultimate slot on the Night 2 card, ahead of the Reigns-Punk main event, a placement that WWE creative has historically used to signal the division's long-term direction. With Ripley holding the belt, Cargill chasing and SKY now in the picture, WWE has set up perhaps its strongest women's three-way programme since the Charlotte-Sasha-Bayley era of the late 2010s.