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A WWE star has officially been added to a championship match at this weekend’s SummerSlam premium live event.
A few weeks ago, it was announced that a knee injury would keep WWE Women’s Rhea Ripley out of action through SummerSlam, unable to defend her title on the show.
In her absence, WWE confirmed there would be a five-woman ladder match to determine an Interim WWE Women’s Champion, taking place at SummerSlam.
On tonight’s SmackDown, two days before the ladder match takes place on night two of SummerSlam, the final entrant was determined.
A qualification match between Lash Legend and Giulia was won by Legend, so she joins the five-woman field to determine the Interim WWE Women’s Champion.
The other four women in the match are Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill, Chelsea Green and Tiffany Stratton.
Cargill and Stratton have both been WWE Women’s Champion in the past, while Flair has of course been a champion many times over but has yet to hold the current version of the WWE Women’s Title.
Legend and Green haven’t been WWE Women’s Champion, but Legend has been a Tag Team Champion with Nia Jax, and Green has been Women’s United States Champion.
Cargill and Flair both qualified against Nia Jax to get into the ladder match, Green defeated Kiana James, and Stratton defeated Jacy Jayne.
Given the fact this match will be for the Interim championship, the winner will likely face Rhea Ripley to determine the ‘real’ champion when she returns – unless of course the Interim title changes hands before then.
As noted, the ladder match takes place on night two of SummerSlam, which is Sunday, August 2 and will be headlined by Roman Reigns vs Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship.
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