Here are four potential winners of the battle royal on tonight’s April 22 WWE Raw to replace Rhea Ripley as Women’s World Champion.
Ripley vacated the title last week due to suffering a legitimate shoulder injury a week prior during a backstage brawl segment with Liv Morgan.
With Ripley set to be out for a number of months, WWE only had somewhere between one and two weeks to figure out a quick change of plans for Raw’s women’s championship.
So, let’s take a look at four stars who could win the battle royal tonight on WWE Raw and walk out as the new Women’s World Champion.
4. Becky Lynch
Despite reports that she was set to take time off after WrestleMania 40, Becky Lynch seems to be back in the fray, at least for the time being.
Lynch worked WWE’s UK tour over the past few days, and was featured in the promotional video for tonight’s battle royal.
That doesn’t 100% mean she’ll be in it – Xia Li was featured in the video and then news came out that she was released from her contract literally minutes later – but it appears there’s a good chance.
Lynch ranks fourth on this list as WWE probably will give her the time off as planned and she’ll likely just be in the runner-up spot as a major last elimination to put over whoever wins.
But if things have changed due to Ripley’s absence and Lynch is sticking around, she’s definitely the biggest star on the Raw women’s roster so she’d be an appropriate winner in that sense.
She’ll probably factor into the finish of the battle royal though even if she doesn’t win – more on that in a bit.
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3. Chelsea Green
Definitely the wildcard pick out of the four on this list, but what a wildcard it would be.
Chelsea Green is one of the most entertaining parts of WWE TV each week, which, despite being booked as a comedy figure who mostly loses, is definitely leading to something of a surge in popularity and fans calling for her to be rewarded.
A battle royal is the perfect environment for Chelsea Green to sneak a win without actually beating anyone. The question is whether it’s the right way to follow up Rhea Ripley’s dominant 380-day reign.
Either way, she and Piper Niven did actually beat Kayden Carter and Katana Chance last week, so perhaps that was a sign of things to come and things are looking up.
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2. Nia Jax
Moving onto someone who has been in the Women’s World Championship scene for months now, Nia Jax was beaten by Rhea Ripley in a title match at Elimination Chamber.
With Ripley out for a while, and likely Becky Lynch in the same situation, where does that leave Jax?
Nia Jax being Nia Jax means she kind of has to be dominant, and the only people that could feasibly beat her were huge top stars like Ripley and Lynch.
The upcoming WWE Draft will help to somewhat reset and refresh things, but on the current roster, there’s logically no real reason for Jax to not dominate pretty much everyone else, which could almost force her into being champion by default.
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1. Liv Morgan
Rhea Ripley’s injury legitimately occurred during the backstage brawl with Liv Morgan a couple of weeks ago when Morgan sent Ripley shoulder first into a wall.
While there are reportedly no backstage issues involving Morgan regarding what happened, the situation has been transferred onto TV, with Morgan claiming it was part of her ‘revenge tour’ to get back at Ripley who injured her (in storyline) several months ago.
However, this in turn seems to have turned Morgan heel to a lot of fans, and that change in fan reaction might be something that can really reinvigorate her career.
The most logical ending to the battle royal would seem to be Becky Lynch overcoming and eliminating Nia Jax, and then Morgan sneaking in at the end to take advantage, another heel move that sets up a match with Lynch when she’s back from her break.
The end goal of all of this when Ripley returns would be a match against Morgan, and Morgan becoming the first champion – via heel means – after being the one that injured Ripley in the first place, just makes all the sense in the world.
Whether Morgan’s reign would actually last as long as it takes for Ripley to return is another question, but it at least gets things off to a sensible start.
WrestleTalk.com will of course keep you posted with all the news throughout WWE Raw tonight, so be sure to stayed tuned to find out who wins!
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