Sasha Banks vs Bianca Belair
WWE WrestleMania 37, Night 1 — April 10, 2021 · Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL
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The Story
Bianca Belair won the SmackDown Women's Championship — her first world title — pinning Sasha Banks in a match that main-evented Night 1 of WrestleMania 37: the first WrestleMania ever headlined by two Black women.
The staging alone carried weight. This was the first sizable live crowd of the pandemic era, and WWE placed two Black women at the very top of its biggest show — a landmark for representation on that stage. Banks, the veteran genius, played the perfect measuring stick for Belair, the electric athlete WWE had been building toward a moment exactly like this.
The match built to a genuinely iconic image: Belair's Kiss of Death, delivered after weaponizing her own braid, dropping Banks for the three-count and the title. The coronation launched Belair as a franchise face and stands as a signpost of how far the women's division had traveled from the NXT-era revolution captured in Bayley vs Sasha at TakeOver: Brooklyn.