Kay Lee Ray vs. Kris Statlander

[9.0] "A very fun, intense, chaotic title match, that spiraled into some fantastic nonsense at the end. The crowd was so split for this, which I always love to be a part of. There was some great action in here, the strikes and offence in here was brilliant, there were some brutally hard hitting drivers, slams, bombs, and just huge moves, everything landed so well, and KLR and Stat had some awesome chemistry. There were some really nice sequences too, that Guillotine sequence was just incredible, with Stat trying so many times to break it but KLR just keeping it cinched in through the suplex, the rams into the turnbuckle, and everything else, until Stat is eventually able to break it with that massive spinebuster. Really strong action throughout this one, which played so nicely with the split crowd, and then we go into the closing stretch of the match which was just some incredible overbooked nonsense. There was some really fun stuff with Stat kicking out of some insane combinations of moves, first with the destroyer into the gory bomb, and then later with the gory bomb into the Swanton Bomb. Just insane stuff. The finish with KLR going into full heel mode, attempting to use the title, the referee stopping her, so KLR just completely wipes her out, leading to Session Moth Martina running out to stop KLR using the belt, but after Kris misfires a lariat and wipes her out, SMM hits stat with the belt herself. After the 2nd ref comes out, and KLR only secures a 2 count, KLR wipes that referee out too, which leads to... Abi coming out as the third referee! After some more fantastic back and forth with some awesome offence from both, KLR is finally able to secure the win, and wins the strap as a result. The post match with KLR saying there needs to be some changes, and calling out Abi was... interesting? Wonder where it's going, I assume somebody is going to step in and fight on Abi's behalf? Either way, though, looking forward to what comes next, and this match was fantastic."

[7.0] "Overbooked to save face for Statlander. I have come to like her a lot over the past year, but there seems to be this narrative that if an AEW star looses, it needs to be because the EVE wrestler screws them over and is still not on their level."

[8.0] "Overall it was great but i was expecting more from people like these two. They had some nice moments with top notch reversals (especially that finishing one) but the match felt weird, idk if that's just me but i couldn't get behind it and then those ref spots happened. I mean it fits KLR to do that but i wasn't feeling that. At least Kay Lee has become champion again, that's actually amazing and i'm hoping she'll get a lengthy reign. ***, 75"