{"id":809168,"date":"2026-07-18T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809168\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:37:10","slug":"interim-wwe-womens-champion-to-be-crowned-at-summerslam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809168\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim WWE Women&#8217;s Champion to be crowned at SummerSlam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interim WWE Women\u2019s Champion will be crowned at SummerSlam.<\/p>\n<p>Raw GM Adam Pearce made the announcement shortly before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/results\/wwe-smackdown-live-results-fallout-from-gunthers-attack-on-nick-aldis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday\u2019s episode of SmackDown<\/a>. He noted that current champion Rhea Ripley was recovering from a torn meniscus. Pearce said that while Ripley is close to returning, she won\u2019t be cleared for SummerSlam. So in the meantime, five women will compete in qualifying matches for a ladder match that will determine the new interim champion in Minneapolis. When Ripley returns, a unification match will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Ripley hasn\u2019t been seen on WWE television in over a month. She last wrestled during the European summer tour on June 4, teaming with Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton in a winning effort against Fatal Influence. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/rhea-ripley-provides-injury-update-says-timeline-to-return-up-in-the-air\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent interview<\/a>, she acknowledged the meniscus tear and noted that her situation was \u201ckind of a little bit up in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WWE SummerSlam (August 1 &amp; 2)<\/p>\n<p>WWE Championship: CM Punk defends against Cody Rhodes<\/p>\n<p>World Heavyweight title: Roman Reigns defends against Seth Rollins<\/p>\n<p>Hell in a Cell: Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s World Champion Liv Morgan defends against IYO SKY<\/p>\n<p>Five-way ladder match for interim WWE Women\u2019s Championship: Participants TBA<\/p>\n<p>WWE Intercontinental title: Penta defends against Chad Gable<\/p>\n<p>LA Knight, Solo Sikoa, and Royce Keys vs. Jacob Fatu and The Usos (challenge issued)<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"preferred-source-link\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Google Icon\" class=\"google-icon\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/author\/bryan-rose\/\" title=\"Bryan Rose\" class=\"gms-profile-image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784342230_163_5f0b051bb8f236fb6c4e8d1cc07a86fcbf674f20845dbd09a5587ee26e241589.png\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Bryan Rose\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Bryan Rose<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Rose is an editor from California that has been covering professional wrestling for well over a decade. He officially joined F4WOnline as an editor in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/danhausen-to-lead-uncursing-parade-through-new-york-city\/?utm_source=navigation-previous&amp;utm_medium=internal\" class=\"gms-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An interim WWE Women\u2019s Champion will be crowned at SummerSlam. Raw GM Adam Pearce made the announcement shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-809168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}