5 Opponents for Becky Lynch after WrestleMania 36

Becky Lynch defended her RAW Women's Championship at WrestleMania 36 against Shayna Baszler, and in an empty Performance Center, The Man retained her title.

Lynch has now held the title for one full year, having won it last year at WrestleMania 35 in a triple threat match against Charlotte Flair and Baszler's close friend, Ronda Rousey.

Lynch has wrestled and defeated almost everyone on the RAW roster. It now remains to be seen what plans WWE has in store for her in the weeks and months to follow.

With that, let's take a look at five possible opponents for Becky Lynch after WrestleMania 36:

#5 Bianca Belair

Becky Lynch has dominated the RAW roster, so much so that WWE had to push an NXT Superstar in Shayna Baszler to face her at WrestleMania. We could see WWE push yet another NXT Superstar to RAW and have her face off against Becky Lynch.

One strong candidate from NXT is Bianca Belair. Belair impressed in the women's Royal Rumble match earlier this year. And, I have a feeling that she's someone that Paul Heyman would love to have on the Red brand.

Belair said earlier this year that although she is happy at NXT, she would love to move to RAW or SmackDown. During her appearance on Lillian Garcia's podcast, this is what she said about getting called up to the main roster:

"I'm a homegrown talent, so of course with NXT, I hold it near and dear to my heart...I look forward to hopefully one day going to Raw or SmackDown. I hope it comes soon, but I know that I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, and it'll come."

NXT creative head Triple H too spoke about Belair and how RAW Executive Director Paul Heyman or SmackDown Executive Director Bruce Prichard could be interested in bringing her to their brand:

"But yeah, you don’t have to look past just looking at Keith Lee. You see what he looks like, who he is, his personality and what he does in the ring and you go, ‘Can I have him please?’ Same thing with Bianca Belair in the Rumble or her personality in promos."

Belair is an athletic wrestler, while her promos could possibly match with The Man's too, which will make this an interesting contest if it happens.

#4 Kairi Sane

One of the few Superstars that Becky Lynch has not had a singles program with from the RAW roster is one-half of the Kabuki Warriors tag team, Kairi Sane. Lynch has feuded with Sane's partner Asuka, and I don't think WWE will want to revisit that feud right now.

The Kabuki Warriors lost their Women's Tag Team titles at WrestleMania 36, as the team of Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross regained their title. WWE could perhaps move the Kabuki Warriors away from that feud.

Since being called up to the main roster last year, Sane has only worked as a tag team with Asuka, but perhaps this is her time to have a singles run. The former NXT Women's Champion is a fantastic wrestler who is acrobatic, agile and quick, and could put on a good match in the ring. But, her promo work may not be up to scratch because her English is not good.

Perhaps WWE could assign a manager who can match with Lynch's verbal confrontations.

#3 Nia Jax

Former RAW Women's Champion Nia Jax has been on the sidelines for a year as she had to have surgery done on her knees. Jax last featured in a WWE match at last year's WrestleMania but is now ready and raring to go after recovering from her injury.

Jax has been putting out posts on social media indicating that she's fit and ready to go. But, WWE's creative team does not have anything in store for her yet. There was some talk about moving her to SmackDown but WWE have one storyline that they still haven't completed on RAW.

Jax was, in part, responsible for Becky Lynch's rise to mega-stardom after the former RAW Women's Champion broke Lynch's nose and left her concussed after a punch to the face. Lynch's nonchalant look despite suffering a serious injury and bleeding from her nose was a picture that won the hearts of WWE fans.

Although Lynch eliminated Jax in the women's Royal Rumble match months later, WWE has to put the two in a full-blown feud and put a lid on that story.

#2 Ronda Rousey

This is a left-field choice considering Ronda Rousey has not been on WWE television for a year. But there has been talk about Rousey re-signing with WWE, which makes me wonder if this is a possibility.

Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue recently revealed that Rousey has been having negotiations with WWE over a new contract:

"We look at Ronda Rousey, who is a possibility to return soon. She is potentially approaching what would have been the end of the three-year contract that WWE initially announced that she had but I can also say with confidence that contract negotiations are ongoing for a brand new contract that would essentially start around the time of this year's WrestleMania."

If Rousey does re-sign with WWE, Lynch could get her wish of having a one-on-one match with Rousey, which was the original plan for WrestleMania 35. With the uncertain times that we are in, there's a possibility that we may not see WWE programming for a few months. This means that Lynch need not even have to enter into a new feud anytime soon and could feud with Rousey if and when she returns to WWE.

#1 Shayna Baszler

The manner in which Shayna Baszler lost was surprising. She had the upper hand throughout the match and even had Lynch in a Kirifuda Clutch before the RAW Women's Champion countered, arched her back and got the win. It wasn't a convincing win for Lynch, and I have a feeling this is not the last time we will see these two fight in the ring.

After the match, Lynch gave an interview where she praised Baszler and clearly indicated that Baszler wants more of her and she told her to challenge her once again:

"Well, Shayna has a problem. She thinks she has my number, but she certainly doesn't. But if she has a problem with that finish tonight, just tell her to not go missing. She knows where to find me, I'll be holding down the fort every single week."

We could see these two continue the feud whenever RAW is on the air next and perhaps a rematch is on the cards later this year at SummerSlam.

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