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Following the explosive Tuesday night edition of SmackDown Live, it was on Sunday that the WWE Universe in attendance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, swayed with their chants as momentum shifted back-and-forth between Charlotte Flair and Scarlett Bordeaux. By now, it'd become fairly obvious that Bordeaux was the more stronger, powerful Superstar of the duo--however, Charlotte enjoyed the speed, flexibility and overall wrestling advantage over her foe.
Despite having managed to trap Bordeaux in the Figure-Eight submission hold on not one but two occasions, Charlotte failed to secure the tap--as Chris Jericho cheered on his protege; while Ric Flair with a worried look on his face, watched his daughter fight tooth and nail. Charlotte tried everything--the Spear, the Natural Selection as well as her aforementioned Figure-Eight submission finisher--but to no avail...Bordeaux was simply too strong, as the Romanian physical specimen used her tree-trunk legs to power out of every hold and pinfall attempt.
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Over the course of this grueling showdown, Bordeaux managed to connect with the Codebreaker on Charlotte, on a couple of occasions--in fact, she'd secured a near-fall on the second attempt. Nevertheless, Bordeaux seemed in control, but took her eyes off her foe--which in turn resulted in her getting placed into the Figure-Eight again! The match seemed to be done with, and very well would've been, if it weren't for Jericho running over to Ric Flair and threatening to punch the latter--thereby distracting Charlotte.
Needless to say, Charlotte let go of the hold and hurried out the ring to stop Jericho, who by now, had let go of Ric's collar. Charlotte then rolled back into the ring, and Bordeaux immediately took advantage of her distracted opponent; nailing The Queen with the Codebreaker for the third time in the match, and putting her down for the 1-2-3...Scarlett Bordeaux was then revealed to be the new WWE SmackDown Women's Champion, by ring-announcer JoJo Offerman...