During Monday night’s episode of “Raw,” a confrontation backstage between Sol Ruca and WWE Intercontinental Women’s Champion Becky Lynch arrange a match between the 2 this weekend for Saturday Night’s Predominant Event. The one catch was Lynch refused Ruca’s challenge to place her championship on the road, making it a non-title match.
On Tuesday, nonetheless, WWE appeared to reverse course, promoting Ruca vs. Lynch for the Intercontinental Women’s Title on social media. Now on Wednesday, it appears WWE is changing their mind once more. In a post on X, Fightful noted that WWE isn’t any longer promoting Ruca vs. Lynch as a championship match, officially making the match a non-title affair as of this writing.
WWE isn’t any longer promoting Sol Ruca vs Becky Lynch for the WWE Women’s IC Championship at SNME like they did yesterday. pic.twitter.com/9IlmtAbmOn
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) May 20, 2026
Except for the change in promoting, WWE has made no mention on their broadcasts regarding the changes to Ruca and Lynch’s match. It just isn’t the primary time, nonetheless, that WWE has appeared indecisive a couple of potential Saturday Night’s Predominant Event title bout. Back in December, WWE originally announced a match between WWE World Tag Team Champions AJ Style and Dragon Lee against Leon Slater and Je’Von Evans as a non-title match. The match was later advertised as a title match, just for WWE to reverse course again, with Lee and Styles ultimately not putting the titles on the road.
Regardless, the match will function arguably the most important test of Ruca’s profession up to now, and a probability to realize momentum. The previous NXT Women’s North American Champion was called as much as “Raw” shortly after WrestleMania 42, but has since struggled to search out her footing, losing two consecutive matches to Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan and former Women’s Champion IYO SKY.