WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion: Alexa Bliss
If there’s one performer that has really improved a lot on SmackDown, it’s Alexa Bliss.
Her promos have gotten much better, she’s great at playing a detestable heel, and while her in-ring work isn’t on the same level as that of the Four Horsewomen, she’s improving day-by-day. To that end, Bliss should not lose the championship anytime soon.
The main reason for this is that the SmackDown women’s roster is cripplingly thin, with only eight listed full-time competitors. This list gets even smaller when you consider that Eva Marie is filming a movie and Nikki Bella’s in-ring career might be over soon.
That leaves Bliss with five potential opponents: Becky Lynch, Carmella, Mickie James, Naomi and Natalya. Of these women, only Lynch is a pure babyface, and we’ve already seen Lynch vs. Bliss several times.
Furthermore, Natalya is an established heel whose still feuding with Nikki Bella for the time being, and James just returned as a heel ally of Bliss’s. So that leaves us with Carmella and Naomi as potential opponents for Bliss.
Neither of them have been built up properly as contenders for the championship, so it doesn’t make sense for Bliss to lose the belt in the foreseeable future. Maybe if Sasha Banks jumps over to SmackDown, then it’s possible that we’d have more excitement in this division.
