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A lot of important things happened on WWE SmackDown this week including King Corbin bullying members of the audience and the production staff and Goldberg challenging The Fiend for a Universal Championship match in Saudi Arabia. However, the show would end with SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley taking Carmella out in the middle of the ring.
So, why was Carmella chosen ahead of other notable contenders including Alexa Bliss and Naomi? I will try and answer the question in this article and I welcome your comments and your views in the section below as well.
Also, I'd like to know if you think the SmackDown Women's Championship scenario is as exciting as the title picture on RAW is. Do you believe that Becky Lynch is a stronger or a weaker Champion than Bayley?
Feel free to speak your mind and voice your thoughts, dear reader.
#5 Friends since their NXT days
A lot of times, the best of friends can create magic in the ring when called upon to do so. If you remember the series of excellent matches between Dolph Ziggler and The Miz, it was based on the fact that the two men are good friends in real life. The same is true for Randy Orton working with Edge, as they are two men who have a great friendship and a lot of respect for each other's work.
Bayley and Carmella have a lot of respect for one another as well and a friendship that goes back to their days in NXT. They will obviously want to elevate one another by putting on great matches. And while I have no inside knowledge of the same, I'm almost certain that Bayley and Carmella must have been vocal about wanting to work together.
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#4 Carmella's popularity soared after her 24/7 exploits
Even the most serious 'pro wrestling' fan that believes that comedy has no place in wrestling must have smiled from ear to ear based on Carmella's exploits with R-Truth. It was a very weird pairing when it happened but somehow it made all the sense in the world, as Carmella would climb on R-Truth's back as he ran across the arena to escape the people who wanted to capture his title.
Carmella even went on to win the 24/7 Championship on two occasions and even though she's been a former Money in the Bank winner and SmackDown Women's Champion, it is this run that really set her apart from the pack. She proved to the world and especially to her boss Vince McMahon that she can do just about anything, including comedy segments.
Because of how popular she became, it was only natural that she would be next in line for a title shot. One wonders if Mandy Rose could get the same kind of treatment because she's willing to do all those comedy segments with Otis.
#3 A chance for Carmella to be in the Championship picture, but as a babyface
How many of us can ever forget Carmella's run with James Ellsworth, as the ultimate despicable heel? And how many of us would have assumed that she would be the breakout star from the faction that also contained Enzo and Big Cass, right?
Well, as has been mentioned, this is a chance for her to become the Champion or at least challenge for the Championship, but to have the crowd rooting for her again. This time, she will not have James Ellsworth by her side climbing ladders to win Money in the Bank contracts for her.
And let's be honest, heel Carmella was very different from the Carmella we have come to know and love since then. And she can be the perfect foil to Bayley who seems to have embraced the darker path because the audience would naturally be rooting for her.
Who would have thought a few years back that Carmella would be a babyface and Bayley, a heel?
#2 A title change would allow Sasha Banks to enter the picture
Sasha Banks is the ultimate troll and while a lot of theories abound about why she hasn't been on WWE SmackDown in recent times, it does seem like she is okay judging from her comments and the posts she makes.
I do believe that she is just biding her time until she can step in to cause the right kind of impact, making a splash in the SmackDown Women's Championship picture. But I do believe that in case there's a title change, Sasha Banks could return to stake her claim!
And then at WrestleMania, we could have a multi-woman match featuring Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Naomi challenging the Champion, Carmella, for her SmackDown Women's Championship. I really think that this is the case because Sasha Banks is too valuable an asset to merely be portrayed as a sidekick. And that has been the case with her for the longest time, ever since Bayley went heel.
We could see some interesting surprises on the road to WrestleMania 36.
#1 Alexa Bliss may be needed for the Women's Tag Team Championships, Naomi for WrestleMania
Let me begin this section of the article by saying that I mean no disrespect at all to Dana Brooke, but she was never in the same league as the other women in the match. I would have been very shocked indeed if it had been her going on to face Bayley for the Championship.
However, Alexa Bliss is certainly always going to be a potential contender for the Championship but right now, I have a feeling that she and Nikki Cross could be next in line to face The Kabuki Warriors and bolster the forgotten Women's Tag Team Championship picture.
And maybe Bayley goes on to defeat Carmella and faces Naomi for the title at WrestleMania 36. This is certainly a possibility especially if you consider how creative Naomi's entrances tend to be, which could definitely lend itself to a very memorable WrestleMania 36 spectacle.
And hence, maybe Carmella is only a filler feud until WrestleMania 36 comes around.
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