Liv Morgan: SmackDown Women's Champion says she hated finish to SummerSlam match

Liv Morgan has commented on the finish to her SummerSlam match with Ronda Rousey, and admitted she hated the way it ended. 

On Saturday night Morgan beat Shayna Baszler at Clash at the Castle in the biggest win of her career so far, following her victory over Rousey at July’s SummerSlam – which came with controversy. 

Despite the referee counting the three count on Ronda, it was later shown that Morgan had tapped out during the sequence and therefore shouldn’t have retained her SmackDown Women’s Championship. 

It was an ending that saw the 28-year-old receive some negative reaction from the WWE fans, with some large boos coming from the crowd on the post-SummerSlam Smackdown – even though she’s considered a babyface. 

Speaking about the match with BT Sport’s Ariel Helwani, Liv said she wasn’t surprised by the response from the WWE fans. 

“It was interesting. It was kind of something that I halfway expected, because I feel like, in a way, the fans felt like I let them down, you know? Because I feel like the ending of the match, because of its controversy, they felt indifferent.

They wanted me, I think, to get a clean, solid win, but I was facing the Baddest Woman on the Planet, who has years, and years, and years, and years, and years of mixed martial arts experience, and I outlasted two armbars and I did my absolute best in that very moment, and so they weren’t happy with the conclusion of the match. But at the end of the day, the referee’s decision is final and I’m still the SmackDown Women’s Champion and the only woman to beat Ronda Rousey twice.”

When pushed to give her own opinion on the finish, the SmackDown Women’s Champion admitted she also wasn’t a fan of the ending of the match. 

I hated it. It’s not the way