Chelsea Green won the WWE Women’s Interim Championship as the biggest fan favorite of the match. Embattled by a combination of (mostly) fake and real outrage, Triple H has come under fire for booking the same people in the main event. The sportsbooks had familiar face Charlotte Flair winning her 15th world championship, but Chelsea Green upset the applecart while exciting WWE’s fickle fanbase with a career-defining win. Chelsea Green will likely feud with Rhea Ripley assuming Ripley is able to return soon.

Earlier this month, WWE announced a rare WWE Interim Women’s Championship while current women’s champion Rhea Ripley recovered from injury. The chase for the WWE Women’s Championship intertwined multiple feuds during qualifying matches, but no feud cast a bigger shadow than Jade Cargill vs. Charlotte Flair (-500), who was the biggest favorite to win her 15th world championship, one behind her legendary father Ric Flair.

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Cargill and her best friend Alexa Bliss have been at war with Jade Cargill, B-Fab and Michin, and in a ladder match, that feud was more than guaranteed to culminate in a significant spot in the match, if not decide this contest outright.

Chelsea Green Wins WWE Women’s Interim Title Ladder Match

• Tiffany Stratton, another hometown favorite, donned the color of the Minnesota Vikings. She was followed by Jade Cargill, who also wore purple—not in honor of Minnesota’s zero-Super-Bowl-winning football team—but in homage to Minnesota native Prince.

• Chelsea Green received the biggest pop among the combatants as she walked out third. Chelsea invited eight friends to the match, but they couldn’t make it because there was an airline strike in Canada. Poor Chelsea. Green was followed by Lash Legend and Charlotte Flair.

• Charlotte Flair and Jade Cargill brawled immediately, with Jade Cargill getting the jump on Flair. Lash Legend powerbombed Tiffany Stratton into a ladder. Stratton’s friend Chelsea Green tried a suicide dive, but Legend caught Green and ragdolled her. Legend sent Chelsea Green over the barricade as fans chanted “Chelsea” while Lash Legend dominated the opening minutes.

• Charlotte Flair’s gear was dedicated to a young WWE fan named Scarlett who recently succumbed to brain cancer. Charlotte faced off with Lash Legend, and Lash got the better of Charlotte by slamming her on a ladder. Now it was time for a showdown between Lash Legend and Jade Cargill.

• Jade Cargill and Lash Legend faced off as US Bank Stadium cheered, but Green and Stratton broke it up and neutralized the Black amazons with 10-count punches. Cargill and Legend hit stereo pump kicks and started throwing hands, but Charlotte reentered the fray and shoved Cargill out of the ring with a ladder.

• Lash Legend dropped Charlotte with a military press and setup a ladder to retrieve the title. Stratton stopped Legend with a Codebreaker as she faced off with her old opp Charlotte.

• Chelsea Green went for the title as fans cheered, but Cargill had other ideas and delivered Jaded on a ladder in the corner. Jade Cargill went for the belt, but Stratton stopped Jade with a Backstabber. Tiffany was intercepted by Charlotte Flair, who got the better of Tiffany Stratton in a fist fight.

• Lash Legend powerbombed Tiffany on a ladder from the second rope. Charlotte saw an opening and grabbed the title but Jade Cargill removed the ladder. Jade and Lash both pulled Charlotte from the top and barely caught her. Lash once again took control with a pump kick on Jade.

• Tiffany Stratton tried to grab the title, but Chelsea Green entered the ring and apologetically pushed Stratton into the field. With everybody taken out, US Bank Stadium wildly chanted “Chelsea” as Green scaled the ladder.

• B-Fab and Michin interrupted to huge heat and dragged Chelsea off the ladder. The Baddies helped Jade Cargill recover and climb the ladder. Fans chanted “BS.” Charlotte Flair ran wild on the Baddies and met Jade Cargill atop the ladder as fans chanted for Chelsea.

• Chelsea’s four opponents all fell off the ladder, opening the door for Chelsea Green who rose up from the dead to take the title.

Chelsea Green’s Feel-Good Win A Boon For Triple H

With only so many spots for fan favorites to succeed, the likes of LA Knight, Jacob Fatu, Carmelo Hayes, Ilja Dragunov, Giulia and even Chelsea Green have been subjects of “glass ceiling” talk. This was brought up during last night’s press conference after WWE SummerSlam Night 1.

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“You really have to do something. The narrative of, ‘It’s my turn.’ There are no turns. That’s not how it works,” said Triple H. “You earn the spot. If somebody is getting over more than somebody else, we’d move that person into the spot and move the other person down.”

Green is often the most popular woman in any match she competes in—due to a powerful combination of character work, charisma and wrestling—but she usually comes up short.

WWE shrewdly booked this ladder match to look like another close-but-no-cigar moment for Chelsea, and it worked. Some fans chanted “BS” as it looked like either Charlotte Flair or heel Jade Cargill was going to take the interim title. In the end, Chelsea Green finally prevailed with a feel-good win in Minnesota.

This article was originally published on Forbes.com