5 things that could happen on RAW next week

#1 The women get some time to shine

Alexa Bliss fights off Absolution for the second straight week to save Mickie

This may end up being a situation where I’m optimistic and it falls apart. Maybe they will do a six-woman tag match, which was my initial thought. I’ve been wrong about that a lot lately, though, so I’m going a different way.

Alexa Bliss will continue to try to earn the trust of Mickie James. It will get tenser between Sasha and Bayley, as they team up and lose to Sonya and Mandy due to miscommunication, but fall just short of actually coming to blows. Asuka will be back on TV to confront Nia Jax in a face-to-face just 6 days before their match.

They are going to give the women’s Elimination Chamber match a harder push this week to drive home how historic and important it is, and that will involve the women getting a good amount of TV time. Don't be surprised to see the women close the show on this one.

Along with playing up the possibility that Nia Jax may be the first woman under the WWE/NXT banner to defeat Asuka, the women will be prominently featured on RAW. Maybe they’ll get a spot on Miz TV (Asuka & Nia, or maybe the 6 participants in the Chamber match) and Miz will sit out and they’ll do Braun vs. Cena and Roman vs. Balor.

No matter how they go about it, I’m pretty confident that the push for the two women’s matches at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view will be a strong one.

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