We are just weeks away from WWE’s second most significant PLE, The Royal Rumble. As we know, the road to WrestleMania starts at Royal Rumble. Much like every year, Royal Rumble is always full of mysteries and surprises and WWE is doing a good job of not letting the cat out of the bag early. Last year, two huge female superstars made their triumphant returns. Becky Lynch recovered from her grave shoulder injury and made her presence felt at Survivor Series WarGames. The Man joined team Belair and defeated team Bayley.
On the other hand, Charlotte Flair made her shocking return on the last edition of SmackDown and captured the SmackDown Women’s Championship after defeating Ronda Rousey. The queen is now the Women’s Champion for the 14th time.
Before her victory over Ronda on SmackDown, Flair was last seen competing with the Rowdy One in May in an I Quit Match in a losing effort. With WrestleMania 39 fast approaching, plans for the grandest stage have been leaked.
Major WrestleMania 39 spoilers for the women’s division
After securing the SmackDown Women’s Championship, it appears that Charlotte Flair will reportedly hold on to her throne until WrestleMania 39. A source revealed to Xero News that the current Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair will challenge Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 39 for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.
However, the match is not going to be a Champion Vs Champion as the source also revealed that Belair will drop her strap to either Becky Lynch or Rhea Ripley at WWE’s Elimination Chamber PLE.
The report also states that either Ripley or Lynch is booked to win the rumble. As a result, it will boil down to a match between Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 39 for the Raw Women’s Championship.
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As for Ronda Rousey, the Rowdy One will reportedly step aside from the main title picture and focus on having a run as a tag team competitor alongside Shayna Baszler.
Rousey and Baszler are seemingly being pushed to compete for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships either at WrestleMania or shortly after. However, at this point, all these plans are only speculations. It remains to be seen if the rumors turn out to be true.
Charlotte Flair was taken aback by fans’ reaction to her return
Charlotte Flair was written off from WWE TV after she suffered from a fracture of the radius in May. After making her grand return, fans were happy to see Flair regaining her throne as Champion as Rousey’s reign had become insipid.
Although Charlotte is a highly polarizing talent, her return was met with high spirits among the fans. Speaking on WWE’s “The Bump”, The Queen expressed what she felt after getting a shocking response from the fans at her return.
“It really made me emotional, and being back and I think after being gone for eight months, the things that I worried about before I don’t worry about as much.” Said Flair.
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