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Becky Lynch won the main event of WrestleMania 35 in 2019, a Winner Takes All Triple Threat Match against Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair. In that match, Lynch won both the "Raw" Women's Championship and the "SmackDown" Women's Championship.Lynch then took a 15-month hiatus from 2020 to 2021 to go on maternity leave. She and Seth Rollins had a daughter in December 2020. She returned to action at the SummerSlam in 2021, but the following year, at SummerSlam, she suffered a separated shoulder (while finishing her match with Bianca Belair) and missed several months.Now healthy, Lynch will fight Rhea Ripley on Saturday for the Women's World Championship.
– As noted by Fightful Select, today marks the day Ronda Rousey’s original WWE contract was slated to expire, according to a statement from WWE given to TMZ in January 2019 following rumors that Rousey would be leaving the company soon. A WWE spokesperson released a statement at the time, saying, “Ronda Rousey is under contract with WWE until April 10, 2021. Whether she wants to start a family is a private matter.”
Rousey would end up taking a hiatus from WWE programming following the WrestleMania 35 main event, when she lost the Raw women’s title to Becky Lynch in a Winner Takes All Triple Threat Match against Lynch and Charlotte Flair. She has not appeared on WWE TV since that time.