Bianca Belair won the Women’s Battle Royal
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — “I’m on my own, against the wall” might be the opening lyrics of Bianca Belair’s entrance song, but those words also tell the story of her triumph in the Worlds Collide’s Women’s Battle Royal. With no allies in sight, and 17 opponents eying the same victory circle, The EST of NXT powered her way to one of the biggest wins of her career.
As talented as Belair is, besting a loaded field of NXT and NXT Superstars was far from the easiest task. The Horsewomen’s Jessamyn Duke & Marina Shafir operated like two wolves from the same pack, joining forces to send other Superstars flying, until a miscommunication caused Shafir to accidentally knock Duke to the floor and out of the match. Former Mae Young Classic competitor Reina González emerged as a huge threat as well, using her Texas-bred brute force to oust multiple Superstars, from Kacy Catanzaro to Kavita Devi.
Aliyah & Vanessa Borne were prominent agitators, too, until they ran into NXT UK powerhouse Piper Niven, who flattened them with a cross body block. Borne & Boujee recovered enough to eliminate the Scot, but admired their handiwork for too long and wound up being dumped to the floor by Io Shirai and NXT U.K. Women’s Champion Toni Storm.
That dual elimination reduced the field to four final competitors: González, Shirai, Storm and Belair.
The Genius of the Sky’s speed helped her stay ahead of, and eventually topple, González, ridding the Battle Royal of its most physically dominant Superstar. Much to the disappointment of the WWE Universe, Storm suffered elimination after Belair countered the Storm Zero.
Dueling chants of “Let’s go Io” and “E-S-T” filled the arena as familiar foes Shirai and Belair came to blows. Although Shirai’s aerial offense put Belair on her heels, The EST of NXT managed to sidestep Shirai’s springboard dropkick and press Shirai high overhead before throwing her out of the ring, leaving now doubt that, on this night, The EST of NXT had the best strategy of all.
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