5 Things Paige can do when she returns to SmackDown this week & confronts Bayley

One of the more interesting developments in recent times concerns Paige, who is scheduled to make a return to SmackDown this week. Jeff Hardy too will be making a return on this week's show, so it is one to watch.

But in the case of Paige, things are a lot more interesting because she is not an active competitor. Why is she coming back and what could possibly be in store for fans once she does return?

I will list 5 possibilities across 5 pages about Paige (that's quite a mouthful). Please feel free to voice your thoughts and comments in the space below.

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#5 Paige becomes Bayley's opponent at WrestleMania 36

The reason that this option is so low in the list is because while everyone would love to hear the good news that Paige is cleared and that she can compete in the ring once again, the fact of the matter is that miracles do not always happen. It happened in the case of Daniel Bryan and it happened in the case of Edge but whether or not Paige will wrestle again, remains to be seen, ladies, and gentlemen.

Paige has been wrestling from the time that she was a kid and I know for a fact that she can go in the ring. It only needs to be greenlit from the doctor and she will be able to have a match that is worthy of WrestleMania because she was born to wrestle. And Bayley is a fantastic dance partner because she can take most of the bumps in the contest.

Imagine the roar of the crowd if Paige shows up this week on SmackDown and announces that she will be returning to the ring for yet another match against the current WWE SmackDown Women's Champion.

#4 Paige brings back Ronda Rousey as her manager

In an interview with Sportskeeda's own Gary Cassidy, Paige was very vocal about the fact that she wants to manage Ronda Rousey. The other name that she mentioned in this regard is none other than Nia Jax, another woman who is on the bench at the moment, waiting to be called back.

While both women were heels during their last run in the company, in Ronda Rousey's case she could always come back as a babyface because absence makes the heart grow fonder and more importantly, Bayley is a complete heel at this point in time on WWE SmackDown. Nia Jax too could come back as a babyface but I don't think she plays a good guy as well as she does a bad guy, from what I have seen of her thus far.

Ronda Rousey, in particular, would be a great opponent for Bayley come WrestleMania and may make this an even bigger match than Becky Lynch vs. Shayna Baszler, I guess. What do you guys think?

#3 Paige confronts Bayley and asks her to change her ways for good, Bayley attacks

Paige is one of the most beloved babyfaces in WWE at the moment and the audience identifies with her because she is not perfect and has made mistakes, but she's owned up to them all. So, in a sense, she is a real role model, something that Bayley and Sasha Banks are claiming to be as well.

Bear in mind that her career ended with a stray kick from Sasha Banks, and while this may be a sensitive topic to bring up, WWE has used real-life situations to tell stories in the past. So, when Paige comes out and tells Bayley that a Champion is supposed to behave in a certain manner, Bayley and Banks could gang up on Paige and be on the verge of delivering a deadly blow, when a babyface runs out for the save.

And in doing so, she becomes an immediate hero and voila, you have a title feud for WrestleMania for the SmackDown Women's Championship.

#2 Paige announces that she is the WrestleMania host

Yes, among all of the possibilities listed, this just seems to be the tamest, does it not? But at the same time, there's only so much that Paige can do unless the plans involve her coming back for the long haul. So she comes back to cut a promo on Bayley but goes on to announce that she is the WrestleMania host.

Alexa Bliss was the WrestleMania host last year and while Paige may not necessarily be Alexa Bliss on the microphone, she is a very good promo. I think she can definitely do a commendable job as the WrestleMania host and kick off the proceedings in style if that's her job. Now that there is a mainstream film about her as well, WWE can definitely use that to their advantage and maybe get new eyeballs on the product because of the same.

I would have said that she could also be going into the Hall of Fame, but with the Bellas going in already, I doubt that'll be the case this year.

#1 Paige tries to help her Absolution buddies break into the title picture

In case you guys don't remember, Paige was a part of a very short-lived faction in WWE that was known as Absolution. It also included Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville, two women who are a part of SmackDown at the moment, but they're not in the title picture at all.

What if Paige is coming back to tell Bayley that her two buddies- Rose and Deville, or even one of them will enter the title picture soon? What this does essentially is open up a whole variety of possibilities and could include the likes of Dolph Ziggler and Otis too.

Even though Mandy Rose may be dating a heel, at no point has she herself behaved like one, and with Paige thrown into the picture, she will be a definite babyface when she steps into the ring to take on Bayley at WrestleMania 36 for the SmackDown Women's Championship if that is indeed the road that WWE wants to go down this year.