IYO SKY Has Earned This WWE Title Moment

Morgan retained against SKY on Night One of SummerSlam on Aug. 1. With referee Jessika Carr distracted by Perez, Rodriguez knocked SKY off the top rope. Morgan covered for only a two-count afterward, then won with a Codebreaker and Oblivion.

The women’s Money in the Bank ladder match went on without SKY. Perez beat SKY and La Catalina in a triple-threat qualifier on the Sept. 21 Raw, hitting Pop Rox for the pin. Tiffany Stratton captured the briefcase on Oct. 10.

Rodriguez won the Women’s Intercontinental Championship from Sol Ruca on the July 27 Raw at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. Morgan tripped Ruca and then distracted the referee while Perez stopped a Sol Snatcher attempt. SKY came to ringside during the match and threw Morgan into the ring post. A Tejana Bomb still gave Rodriguez the pin.

Ruca got a rematch on the Aug. 31 Raw and went for the Sol Snatcher from the turnbuckle. Lyra Valkyria attacked from the apron while The Judgment Day distracted the referee, and Rodriguez retained with the Tejana Bomb. At a WWE live event in Santiago, Chile, on Sept. 12, Rodriguez kept the belt in a four-way against SKY, Bayley, and Ruca.

The championship has seen eight reigns since Valkyria won the inaugural tournament on Jan. 13, 2025. Becky Lynch accounts for three of them. SKY reached the semifinals of that tournament before losing to Valkyria and has never held the belt. Title runs with the WWE Women’s Championship in 2023 and the Women’s World Championship in 2025 are already on SKY’s résumé.

On the Oct. 23 SmackDown, SKY came over from Raw to neutralize Rodriguez during Green’s title defense against Perez. Morgan, Perez, and Rodriguez attacked Green and SKY after the bell until Stratton ran in for the save. Three days later, Green and SKY ran in to fight The Judgment Day after the group caused a disqualification in Morgan’s Women’s World Championship defense against Lynch.

Morgan came out after Green’s title defense against Nikki Bella on the Oct. 30 SmackDown in Charleston, West Virginia, and Stratton joined the brawl that followed. Green hit Morgan with an Unprettier during the melee. Rodriguez and Perez were beating down Green and Stratton when SKY charged in to clear the ring.

Morgan, Rodriguez, and Perez beat SKY, Green, and Stratton in a six-woman tag match on the Nov. 2 Raw at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Perez distracted Green, and Morgan hit Oblivion for the pin. The announced Crown Jewel card for Nov. 7 in Riyadh has four matches, and none involves SKY or the Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

End Of My IYO SKY Rant

SKY has pinned the Women’s Intercontinental Champion in tag and singles competition a week apart. Rodriguez needed Morgan and Perez to win the belt, Valkyria to keep it against Ruca, and a two-on-one beatdown to get the last word in Fresno. A champion who needs that much help has no business dodging SKY with the title on the line. The Queen of the Ring has done the work.

The Judgment Day has been in SKY’s way since June. Rodriguez knocked SKY off the top rope at SummerSlam, and Perez took the Money in the Bank spot. Since then, SKY has kept running into brawls with the same group to back up Green and Stratton, and the Brooklyn six-woman tag ended with another Judgment Day win. A former WWE Women’s Champion and Women’s World Champion should not be fighting that faction with nothing at stake.

Crown Jewel is in Riyadh, the same city where SKY won Queen of the Ring in June. A title match there, or on Raw soon after, is the obvious next step. No more non-title wins. No more saves for free. The belt belongs on the line.