After 15 months away, Becky Lynch made her surprise return to WWE at SummerSlam on Saturday night.
Lynch took Sasha Banks’s place in the SmackDown women’s championship match at SummerSlam and defeated Bianca Belair to win the title. In a match that lasted under 30 seconds, Lynch punched Belair and pinned her after hitting the Manhandle slam.
This was Lynch’s first appearance on WWE programming since announcing in May 2020 that she was pregnant with her first child and would have to take a break from wrestling. Lynch (real name Rebecca Quin) and fellow WWE star Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez) welcomed the birth of their daughter Roux last December.