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While we were all fussing up a storm over the ending to Sunday's Hell in a Cell PPV, it's easy to overlook that new champions were crowned. The Kabuki Warriors - Asuka and Kairi Sane (who I'm shocked hasn't been renamed "Kairi" or "Sane" at this point already) defeated Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross to grab themselves the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, a well deserved accolade.
As champions, this dream team from the Land of the Rising Sun will have to take on plenty of challengers for their newly won titles, but who will step up to face the duo?
The obvious answer, of course, is Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross, who are ready to get their rematch against the Warriors (now that Cross has the green spit out of her eyes), but if they manage to get past that initial challenge, who would be next in line for a shot at those fancy looking titles?
Here are five teams that could challenge the Kabuki Warriors in the very near future.
#5. Tamina and Nia Jax
Tamina recently made her WWE return after suffering an injury that kept her out of action for some time. She recently won the 24/7 Title, for a reign that lasted about as long as it took you to read this far into the article.
Nia Jax is still out with an injury, but destined to return at some point in the near future.
The two Superstars teamed up at WrestleMania 35 to take on three teams in an attempt to capture the Women's Tag Team Championships, but came up short.
Teaming these two up was a great idea, however. They both come from historical wrestling lineages. Tamina is the daughter of 'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka and Jax is The Rock's cousin. Both are also powerhouses in the ring.
These two are not only an imposing team, but Jax has enough charisma to carry them both. A title run might not be in their future, but a series of matches to try and get the titles against The Kabuki Warriors could be a lot of fun to watch.
#4. Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair
Yeah, I know. Pipe down. It's not really conceivable that the two women champions on each brand are going to team up and try to gain the Women's Tag Team Championship.
Then again... why not?
The two are clearly not the best of friends, but they've managed to form a begrudging alliance, due to their issues with Sasha Banks and Bayley. Their loss to the champions on RAW this week has to have them steaming mad (picture steam coming out of their ears like in the cartoons). Who's to say that they can't put their differences aside for just a little longer?
Plus, Charlotte, the daughter of a history-making champion herself , would find it hard-pressed to pass up the opportunity to be part of the team that not only held the RAW and SmackDown Women's titles, but also the tag titles. And Becky Lynch, well... she seems perfectly content to hang out with anyone, as long as there's a good fight involved.
Tell me you read that last sentence in her voice because that's how I wrote it.
Like our previous entry, there's a good chance that even if they do team up and even if they do challenge for the belts, they probably won't win them. Still, it would make for a couple of really good PPV and/or SmackDown on Fox matches.
#3. The IIconics
Billie Kay and Peyton Royce, The IIconics, are slowly starting to become an actual iconic duo in WWE. They've won the Women's Tag Team titles once already (at WrestleMania of all places). They're both excellent performers and they've mastered that "We're female best friends, but we're not lesbians and we totally get why you would think that because we're such amazing friends" chemistry that Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose wish they had that Gary Cassidy and I have in all the fan fiction I write that he doesn't know about.
Well, I guess he does now.
My point is that the two came onto the main roster as a duo and the two work amazing as a duo. The IIconics haven't been seen on TV since they lost the titles to Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross on the August 5th WWE RAW, so who is to say what the company has planned for them?
A return to challenge The Kabuki Warriors after some time away would actually be exciting and a babyface run for the typically heel duo might surprise some people.
Plus, I also want them to come back soon because I love listening to them talk all Australian-y.
#2. Jessamyn Duke and Marina Shafir
The "Four Horsewomen of MMA" - Ronda Rousey, Shayna Bazler, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir - have already made quite an impact on WWE, arguably as much of an impact as their pro wrestling counterparts.
While Rousey has gone on to obvious success on the main roster (that's putting it mildly) and Shayna Bazler has pretty much dominated the NXT Women's Division, Duke and Shafir are still finding their bearings as both performers and as a team. That's to be expected - they're still new to this world and, to be fair, they've handled it pretty well so far.
Baszler looks ready to take on bigger challenges and, while a move to RAW or SmackDown isn't really "being called up" as much as it used to be, she's pretty much dominated NXT long enough that she's probably ready for something new. Where she goes, her fellow Horsewomen are sure to follow, so why not have them challenge for the Women's tag team belts?
The Women's Tag Team Championships are a different kind of beast from all the other titles in the company in that they really are the only championships not married to any particular brand. Since there really isn't much of a women's tag team scene in NXT, if Duke and Shafir are planning on sticking together as a tandem, there's no real reason not to go after these titles.
#1. Sasha Banks and Bayley
Neither Bayley nor Sasha Banks had a particularly good night at Hell In a Cell on Sunday.
Banks fought an incredible match against RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch inside the actual Cell, but came up short. Bayley, in the meantime, wasn't able to keep her own title out of the hands of the very same woman she defeated for it, Charlotte Flair. Now the question is: where do these two go from here?
Obviously, these two are still very much involved in the RAW and SmackDown Women's Championship scene, and both should get rematches very soon. It also makes sense for the two of them to get back to where they were before Sasha took time off after WrestleMania - the Women's Tag Team Championship scene. It's easy to forget that these two were the inaugural Women's Tag Team Champions, and I'm sure they'd love to remind people of just that.
There's also nothing that says they can't team up and go after the titles while also staying true to their own singles ambitions. Sunday's losses for 'The Boss' and 'The Hugger' could spur them on to even more ambition, including trying to hold all of WWE's Women's Championships (one could even go after the 24/7 Championship too, because... you know... why not?)
Bayley also has some unfinished business with Asuka, who defeated her for her NXT Women's Championship years ago and being able to take the Women's Tag Team Titles from her would be a modicum of sweet revenge.
What do you guys think? If it's not Bliss and Cross, who are the next challengers to The Kabuki Warrior's newly won Women's Tag Team Titles? Share you ideas in that comments section we have down there below the ads and such and, as always, thank you for reading.
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