Given the quality of its predecessors, it was going to be difficult for the SmackDown Women's Championship Match between Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey to live up to the bar set by Rhodes vs. Rollins and Belair vs. Lynch, but it certainly tried.

Not always the prettiest match, and suffering from a lack of flow early on, it recovered nicely down the stretch en route to The Queen successfully retaining her title following a referee bump a big boot to the face.

The fans struggled to get invested early, if for no other reason than being burned out by the previous two encounters.

Flair, in particular, won them back. The second-generation star is an all-timer and worked overtime to make sure the match lived up to its billing as one of the main events of the night. Even if it was obvious that there is a better match to be had between the two down the road.