Chelsea Green wins interim WWE Women’s Championship in ladder match at SummerSlam 2026
Chelsea Anne Cardona, known in-ring as Chelsea Green, captured the interim WWE Women’s Championship in a ladder match at SummerSlam 2026. She is a Canadian professional wrestler signed to WWE and performs on the SmackDown brand.
Green is 35 years old, born on April 4, 1991, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She made her professional debut in 2014 at age 23 and first joined WWE in 2018. Green returned as a surprise entrant at the 2023 Royal Rumble and adopted a comedic, self-obsessed “entitled” persona with the catchphrase "Do you know who I am?" She has led factions called The Secret Hervice and The Green Regime alongside Piper Niven.
Khel Now described her as one of the company’s most consistent champions in recent years. Her championship résumé includes two reigns as WWE Women’s United States Champion and a run as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion. A social-media post accompanying coverage read: "CHELSEA GREEN IS THE INTERIM WWE WOMEN'S CHAMPION!!!! 🫡 pic.twitter.com/po8ZdKO1QM"
Green is listed at 5 feet 7 inches, which the source gives as 170 centimeters, and is billed at 125 lbs (about 57 kilograms). The article notes she is taller than several peers on the SmackDown women’s roster and attributes her athletic build to a background in fitness training and modelling prior to wrestling.
She is married to fellow professional wrestler Matt Cardona, best known to WWE fans as Zack Ryder. The pair began dating in early 2017, announced their engagement on April 4, 2019 — her 28th birthday — and were married on New Year’s Eve 2021 in Las Vegas. The report states they frequently support each other at shows and public appearances.
Before wrestling Green worked as a fitness trainer, stunt performer and part-time actor in Canada and served as a stunt double on the TV series Wynonna Earp. She had planned to study Kinesiology and decided to pursue wrestling after watching WWE programming and attending a live event in Victoria in 2009. Green trained under Lance Storm and appeared as a contestant on WWE Tough Enough VI, and she has cited former WWE Diva Kelly Kelly as an inspiration.
In 2023 Green announced she had obtained a US green card after an eight-year immigration process spanning five wrestling promotions and four visas. She also holds the record for the fastest elimination in Women’s Royal Rumble history, lasting five seconds after entering at number 20 in the 2023 match. Unlike several peers, she has not publicly documented any tattoos herself, though fans have gotten homemade tattoos of her ring name, logo and likeness—tributes she has acknowledged and encouraged on social media.
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