Chelsea Green Addresses SummerSlam 2026 Ladder Match Competitors Following Interim WWE Women’s Championship Win

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Chelsea Green has opened up about her interim WWE Women’s Championship ladder match win at SummerSlam.

With Rhea Ripley out of action with a knee injury, an interim WWE Women’s Champion was crowned during the August 2 SummerSlam night two event.

Chelsea Green was ultimately victorious, winning the championship ladder match which also featured Lash Legend, Jade Cargill, Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair.

Speaking on WWE Now: SummerSlam Recap, Green reflected on her journey to becoming interim WWE Women’s Champion.

Noting that her internal dialogue was “so not positive” ahead of the match, she explained:

“I feel so jumbled with emotions because, I mean you know, I’ve been at this for 12-13 years. I’ve had so many ups and downs. So many freaking ups and downs and every time I have an up there’s such a terrible down.

“We break the arm three times, we have heart surgery, we break the ankle. Whatever it is, you name it, I think I’ve been through it. But the one thing that’s stayed consistent for the 13 years has been the fan support.

“They have been behind me, riding through all of the ups and downs, through all of the darkness and the times when we were like, this is just never gonna happen. And now, they rode so hard for me, that we had to have this moment.

“We had to have it right now, in Minneapolis, with the ladder match, with a 14-time champion, with the baddest b**ch in wrestling, with Tiffany Stratton – who has been quite possibly the greatest women’s wrestler to come out of the PC, for real.

“And Lash, who is a WNBA star turned wrestler who could kill anybody with her bare hands. And I, what am I? I’m just a girl who wanted to be a wrestler and here we are.

“The internal dialogue was so not positive. It wasn’t negative, it was absolutely not negative because I don’t think I really have… I don’t need to have negative self talk.

“This is Tiffany’s hometown, or Lash deserves this moment so much, and I know how strong she is, she could absolutely do this. Or Jade and Charlotte, we want to see them standing at the top of that ladder fighting, we want to watch that match.

“There was all these things running through my head. Then I did The Undertaker, I rose from the dead, baby.”

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Chelsea Green’s title win seems to be a popular one among wrestlers as well as fans, with former SmackDown head writer Road Dogg questioning why it took so long for others to see her potential, and Charlotte Flair, Tiffany Stratton and other ladder match participants spotted celebrating Green’s win after the bout.

Green’s husband Matt Cardona has now commented on her victory, click here to read more.

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