Cover for a deep two but Shayna Baszler puts Ronda’s foot on the ropes! Referee Dan Engler catches her and admonishes her but does not eject her! Raquel scoops her up, hard into the turnbuckles, setting her up top, big right hands, jockeying for position and Rousey gets the armbar!
Falling off the turnbuckles, she keeps her grip...
Ronda Rousey wins by submission with her armbar, retaining the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship.
Post-match, Charlotte Flair makes her return!
She gets in the ring and Ronda runs her mouth at her. Charlotte challenges her tonight!
Ronda puts the title down between them and says she’s in luck because she’s feeling spicy! Shayna tries to talk sense into her but Rousey’s gonna fight!
Charlotte Flair vs. Ronda Rousey (c) (WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship)
Charlotte with a boot out the gates... SO CLOSE! She turns and takes Baszler out, spear to Ronda, countered with the armbar, Flair posts and rolls her over...
Charlotte Flair wins the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship by pinfall with a schoolboy.
The Bloodline are chatting in Roman’s office.
Roman says if Sami delivers on ten percent of how he was talking it’s gonna be an easy night at the office and Zayn is confident.
And so we go to break.
Back from commercial, we get a recap of Charlotte Flair’s return and title win.
We get a recap of Dominik Mysterio’s Christmas shenanigans.
Backstage, New Day try to get Top Dolla to jump a broom but he’s good-natured about the teasing about his jumping problem. Maximum Male Models and Madcap Moss have jokes too, and Ricochet chimes in to point out it’s not as easy as he makes it look, and that’s all Dolla can stand!
He shoves the One and Only, there’s lots of shouting, and we cut away.
Imperium make their entrance to send us to break.
Back from commercial, we get a recap of our opening segment.
In the ring, Imperium cut a promo about GUNTHER’s dominance as Intercontinental Champion and we get a recap to boot.