5 Women Who Could Main Event WWE PPVs In The Next 5 Years

Will The Queen Of Spades main event a PPV?
Will The Queen Of Spades main event a PPV?

In 2015, WWE staged its first-ever main roster PPV main event featuring two female talents. The scene was Hell in a Cell, and an account of their long-standing rivalry and solid in-ring efforts, Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks got the nod—inside the Cell, no less.

Since that time, we’ve seen a women’s Royal Rumble close a PPV, a Becky Lynch vs. Flair vs. Asuka Ladder Match headline a TLC, the first-ever women’s main event at WrestleMania featuring Lynch vs. Flair vs. Ronda Rousey, and of course Rousey vs. Nikki Bella closing the all-female Evolution PPV.

That’s not to mention Lynch wrapping up another PPV by teaming with Seth Rollins up against Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans.

Which women will have the opportunity to main event PPVs moving forward? This article takes a look at who might, excluding women who have already had that honor.

(Note: this list does not disqualify participants in the original women’s Royal Rumble who weren’t necessarily featured as main eventers, per se, but rather only Flair, Banks, Lynch, Asuka, Rousey, Bella, and Evans who did get more dedicated main event spots.)


#5 Shayna Baszler

Shayna Baszler has thrived as NXT's top female star.
Shayna Baszler has thrived as NXT's top female star.

Few critics would necessarily call this period in NXT a golden age for women’s wrestling in developmental—particularly compared to the time Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, and Bayley spent on top, Shayna Baszler’s run may come second only to that of Asuka in terms of talents consistently pushed to dominate the division.

Her real-life MMA credentials and uncanny ability to play the bully heel makes her a top player with staying power.

How will Baszler translate to the main roster? We’ll have to wait and see, but there is a relative void in genuinely tough heels who come across as legitimately dangerous to the opposition.

Baszler could readily fill that spot as a foil to the likes of someone like Becky Lynch or Bayley over a women’s title. Given some time and heat, such a rivalry could find itself headlining a PPV sometime in these next five years.

#4 Bayley

Bayley may be the top woman on the main roster to have not main evented yet
Bayley may be the top woman on the main roster to have not main evented yet

Bayley is the last remaining of the so-called Four Horsewomen of NXT to have not yet gotten a featured spot in a one on one or three-way match that closed a main roster PPV.

Bayley was half of the first women’s match to main event an NXT TakeOver, with her Iron Woman Match opposite Sasha Banks, and has generally been pushed toward the top of the women’s roster on Raw or SmackDown. She’s about as well-positioned as the woman who hasn’t yet main evented to get that chance.

But whom might Bayley work in such a match? Sasha Banks feels like an obvious answer given their extensive history and particularly given that they’re now both in their natural roles from developmental with Banks playing the vicious heel and Bayley as a never say die face.

WWE has never explored Bayley vs. Becky Lynch at any real depth either, and that could make for an intriguing headline match down the road.

#3 Io Shirai

Io Shirai has risen to the next level with her heel character.
Io Shirai has risen to the next level with her heel character.

Io Shirai impressed in her Mae Young Classic run and went on to become one of the top favourite characters in NXT.

Little did most fans predict that she would be even better as a vicious heel character who used her aerial talent less to inspire awe than to wreak havoc with moves like a steel chair assisted top rope moonsault.

Shirai’s match at the most recent TakeOver opposite Candice LeRae was something of a coming-out party for her as the two went all out in a show-stealing performance.

Shirai’s victory would seem to suggest that NXT is serious about her. It’s unlikely that, as a fellow heel, she will end up challenging Shayna Baszler for the NXT Women’s Championship.

However, if Baszler does drop the title to move up to the main roster soon, Shirai will be well-positioned to take her spot as the top heel on the brand and to set herself for an eventual run toward the top of RAW or SmackDown’s women’s division herself.

#2 Alexa Bliss

Alexa Bliss has been a consistent favorite of the powers that be in WWE.
Alexa Bliss has been a consistent favorite of the powers that be in WWE.

There are few female talents WWE has pushed quite as doggedly as Alexa Bliss. Just look at her WrestleMania resume since getting called up to the main roster. She walked into her first two outings at WrestleManias 33 and 34 as a reigning champion. Then, when she had to take time away from the ring, the company drafted her to host the event at WrestleMania 35.

Bliss’s big personality and good looks have allowed her to take up residence in a featured role with WWE, and her in-ring work has grown and matured to largely meet the opportunities afforded to her.

Particularly if she can stay healthy, it’s entirely believable that Bliss—the winner of the first women’s Elimination Chamber and the first woman to hold the modern Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championships—may well breakthrough to another level in getting to work a main event match on WWE PPV.

#1 Ember Moon

Ember Moon still has a world of untapped potential.
Ember Moon still has a world of untapped potential.

Many serious fans have been disappointed by how WWE has used Ember Moon since her call up to the main roster.

After all, she proved herself in NXT via an excellent rivalry with Asuka, a respectable title reign, and a strong series of matches with Shayna Baszler. Surely she could catch fire opposite some of the top women on RAW or SmackDown.

Moon found herself in the unfortunate position of starting on Raw around the same time as Ronda Rousey, and consequently never had a real chance at breaking into the title picture there.

On SmackDown, the obstacles have been less obvious, but he bloom already feels like it’s off the rose for her on the main roster after doing so little in her first year.

Nonetheless, Moon is young, talented, and uniquely athletic in ways that mean WWE may well turn back to her to become a featured talent for years to come.

As long as she can hit the Eclipse, and continues to develop other parts of her game, she’ll lose a threat for serious elevation through the ranks of WWE.

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