Paige Turns the Tables on Nikki Bella in Sacramento

Paige got her payback Friday night on SmackDown at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, beating Nikki Bella with the same kind of shortcut Bella had used against her a month earlier. After a rapid series of pinning attempts, Paige trapped Bella in a roll-up with her foot on the ropes for leverage, and the referee counted three at about the nine-minute mark. The win evened a bitter series between former allies whose friendship collapsed after their SummerSlam trios loss to Fatal Influence on August 1, when Nikki and Brie Bella turned on Paige. Bella won their first singles meeting on September 11 with a roll-up that also relied on the ropes.

Bella did not wait for the bell. She jumped Paige at the start and took the fight to the floor, where both women were driven into the barricades, and when Bella tried to retreat up the stage, Paige chased her down and threw her back into the ring. Bella turned it around by snapping Paige across the ropes and sending her from the apron to the floor. Paige rallied with a fisherman suplex, survived an STF by reaching the bottom rope, then hit an Attitude Adjustment that drew only a two count. Bella answered with a running forearm for a near fall of her own before the rolling pin exchanges decided it.