Mercedes Martinez vs. Tessa Blanchard

[7.0] "Drama before the first pin-fall where Blanchard was selling on the outside was pretty good, but imo it was thanks to convincing offense from Martinez in the first ~10 minutes instead of Blanchard's tryhard attempts to work babyface - it didn't feel natural in real time and it still feels the same years later. At ~15 minute mark Martinez scored first pinfall and the match was becoming all about Blanchard being a valiant babyface, making a comeback and getting the win in the last seconds, but she's just not a likeable babyface. She knows what to do, how to do it, and it's still not enough. It also didn't help that Martinez wasn't trying to be more intense in order to bring all the fire and desperation that Blanchard had. Overall - good, but not great match."

[10.0] "It gets overshadow by their much longer rematch, but this is still an incredible match between both women with brilliant in ring work and psychology between them and they made a lot with a half hour."

[8.0] "Great match, now overshadowed by the fact they had an even longer iron man match a few months later, but this one is well worth watching too."

[8.0] "It was a very good match, the part of the attempt of a countout actually brought the idea of the iron man match... it was a really great effort to give sense to the meaning of such stipulation and everything was good from this point. Great finish too ****1/4"