Going into SummerSlam, Becky Lynch seems to have Natalya pegged as some do-gooder cat lady whose claws aren’t sharp enough to scratch her. The Man may have read her wrong, or maybe insulted her one too many times, because Natalya looked anything but weak following a painful ambush of the Raw Women’s Champion seconds after Lynch had concluded her second match of the night and a non-challenge that may yet get accepted anyway.
In fairness, the attack was turnabout against The Man, who Alexa Bliss revealed had attacked Natalya before the show while the arena was still empty via some acquired footage on “A Moment of Bliss.” Lynch was anything but repentant about the attack; in fact, her bout with Bliss was stopped by the refs when The Goddess seemingly injured her ankle as a result of Becky’s attack. Nikki Cross provoked Lynch into a second match which the champ ended with a Man-handle Slam, at which point Bliss revealed her injury to be a ruse and joined in with Cross for a two-on-one attack.
The Queen of Harts made her move and drove off Bliss and Cross, but that was basically a bonus: She had come for Becky and got what she came for, wrenching The Man into an agonizing Sharpshooter that the champion could not escape. During a post-match interview, Natalya intimated that, given the events of the night, she’d like to make the title match at SummerSlam a Submission Match pitting the Sharpshooter against the Dis-arm-her. But, given that she’s sure Becky doesn’t have the guts to accept, she won’t be issuing that challenge after all.
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