The absence of a Women’s United States Championship bout on the WWE SummerSlam 2025 match card has attracted negative attention.
Popular SmackDown star and the inaugural Women’s US Champion, Chelsea Green, recently decided to vent out her frustrations over the decision to keep the current champion, Giulia, and her United States Title out of the SummerSlam 2025 match card.
Green had won the title in December 2024 and lost it eventually to Zelina Vega on the April 25 episode of SmackDown. Following a brief run with the strap, Vega lost the championship to Giulia on the June 27 episode of the blue brand.
While the Women’s Intercontinental Championship from RAW is set to be defended at SummerSlam, the same cannot be said for Giulia’s title. Speaking with The Ringer Wrestling Show, Chelsea Green expressed her angst and frustrations over the title’s creative direction:
It definitely makes me upset. I feel like I really put in work with that title. When I first got that title, I did not stop working. I won it before Christmas, I worked through Christmas and literally every single day until I dropped the title. So, it does make me upset. I feel like I laid the groundwork for this title to mean something and unfortunately we’ve taken a step back from that but that’s not the girls’ fault. That’s just a fact that there’s so much good wrestling right now that we don’t even know how to fit in on TV. Am I making excuses? Yes! Because you can always fit something on TV.
You saw me lose, even though I had that title for like four months straight. I didn’t even win a match and I was only on TV maybe two to three minutes every week, but it was still there and being shown. I do make sure that every time Giulia shows up onTV, I hype her up. She should still feel amazing for holding that title, whether it’s being used on TV and being defended or not. I do feel like we could do more with it.
She’s such an amazing wrestler, she’s insane. She’s so good. I do feel like there’s something there, I feel like she should feud with Zelina [Vega] but like really feud, like really give us something to tune into. I would be okay feuding with her but I’ve said this before, let me not continue to put my hands where it doesn’t belong.
We’re two champions removed from me, let her have her moment because I already know people keep talking about my reign with the title because we haven’t really seen much since. Poor Zelina had to feud with me until the end of time, until she lost the title. I just think that Giulia has the platform to possibly have girls come up from NXT or RAW or bring girls in that haven’t been working to feud with her. I just hope we can do that.”
[H/T: Fightful]
Giulia is now scheduled to defend her title against Vega on the August 1 episode of SmackDown.
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