At SummerSlam, Becky Lynch successfully defended her Women’s Intercontinental Championship against Lyra Valkyria in a no-disqualification match that turned into a brutal brawl. The match saw both competitors using weapons and outside elements, showcasing intense physicality and resilience. Lynch’s victory solidified her position as the champion, preventing Valkyria from challenging for the title.
The match was a slugfest from the beginning, with Valkyria starting off with flying fists, but one miscue allowed Lynch to take advantage. The two took the fight to the outside and Lynch and Valkyria got extreme with weapons in hand. Valkyria and Lynch were using every inch of the outside space, with Valkyria even tossing Lynch into the still photographer at one point. However, the challenger took her eyes off Lynch for one second, allowing the champ to take advantage and pull out a chain to wrap around her face. The fight began to get more vicious from there, with Lynch bringing Valkyria back into the ring and laying the beatdown. Lynch then found a toolbox and a chair after already slapping her opponent with a kendo stick. The fight began to get more vicious from there, with a chair shot and a toolbox driven into Valkyria’s face being next. Lynch pulled a zip tie out of the toolbox and Valkyria’s hands together, with nowhere to go, Valkyria also had to eat a wrench from Lynch as well.
However, even as Lynch delivered the smackdown, Valkyria kept kicking out of the pin, showing there was still fight in Valkyria throughout the match. Her resilience showed up and it was overmatched, at least for a few minutes. With her hands still tied, she hit a no-hand moonsault on Lynch. It appeared Lynch was going to go back on the offensive but after she tossed Valkyria outside of the ring, she disappeared. Lynch went looking for her but she was nowhere to found. She looked underneath the ring and found herself getting sprayed with a fire extinguisher. Valkyria was able to get her hands untied with the few seconds she had alone. She was pulling out all the stops and hit the Nightwing off the steel steps and onto the floor. Still, they were outside of the ring and no pin attempt was made.
Some how, it got more brutal from there. Lynch put Valkyria in between a chair and did some damage. Just as she was going to hit a defenseless Valkyria with a crowbar, Bayley appeared and took it out of her hands. Bayley was nearly goaded into hitting Valkyria with the crowbar. But Bayley and Lynch started to brawl. Bayley yelled at Lynch,