5 things that could happen on SmackDown Live after Royal Rumble 2018

#3 Extremely disappointing women’s action

women of smackdown — The women of SmackDown Live brawl ahead of this weekend's Royal Rumble event

I said I’m going to keep this up, and I will. I hope I’m wrong, as always. If my prediction of Ronda Rousey winning the Rumble is correct, then things are about to get very boring for the rest of the women on SmackDown. I mean, more boring than they already are. I guess it’s possible that they may try to set up a short feud so Charlotte can defend her title at Fastlane before taking on Rousey at WrestleMania, but they might forego another Charlotte title defense in order to make sure that they don’t put any doubt in peoples’ minds that the match would be anything other than this one.

Also, even if Rousey doesn’t win (and God I hope she doesn’t), chances are we STILL end up with some sort of multi-woman cluster of a match. If you can’t tell, I don’t have much confidence in how the women are being booked on both RAW and SmackDown and I do not expect it to improve because the whole “movement” or “revolution” or “evolution” or whatever buzzword they are using for it is just a bunch of hype anyway.

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I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.

I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav