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#3 The next RAW Women's Champion - Charlotte Flair
Stop me if you've heard this before - Charlotte Flair had a short reign as Champion. After holding the SmackDown Women's title for a day and a week respectively in her last two reigns, her run as NXT Women's Champ lasted about two months. With Becky Lynch out of action due to pregnancy, WWE wanted Flair to be heavily featured across WWE programming.
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It's why she showed up on RAW, NXT and SmackDown almost every week at the end of May. While they do need her star power, there were other performers on each brand waiting to step up. They just needed the chance.
Since WWE didn't have Flair in the MITB match this year, it made sense that Nia Jax would be the first challenger. Jax was also in the match, but targeted Asuka because she feels the Empress of Tomorrow was simply handed the title.
That may be true, but she was in the same match that would have ended the same for her had she won. The last two meetings between Jax and the Champion have featured false finishes so they're likely having another big match on PPV. I still don't think that Jax will beat Asuka for the title.
Even though she didn't win the title, Flair pinned Asuka twice in June. It isn't the best way to paint your new Champion, but we know that WWE likes to use the "challenger has pinned the Champion" in non-title action in order to set up a title match.
Flair gets another shot at the belt on RAW and I'm hoping they don't just put the title around her waist. Asuka has worked just as hard, but hasn't had nearly the amount of chances in WWE that Flair has had.
There's also a great history of Flair always defeating Asuka whenever they are in a high-stakes match. The Champ has to retain on RAW and then face the Queen later in the year - and win.
Flair will get hers again as I'm sure as she's being fast-tracked to break her father's 16 title reigns. Since Shayna Baszler didn't win the title at WrestleMania 36 or MITB, the most logical option in WWE's eyes will be Flair.
