10 Burning Questions For WWE Royal Rumble 2017

7. Will Charlotte Win Clean?

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The big boast from Charlotte Flair (and the announcers) in recent months has been her PPV undefeated streak when defending her title. Sure, she’s lost the strap three times, but all three have been on episodes of Raw, and she’s won the title back on the following PPV each time.

So now, Charlotte squares off against Bayley in a PPV title match where the Queen has repeatedly stated that the Huggable One is way out of her league as a fan trying to attain greatness. That is a large part of Bayley’s charm: She’s an avatar for fans, being held back and held down by others who tell her she’s not good enough.

As much as this is a big match, it still doesn’t feel like the right time to pull the trigger. Charlotte needs the win to push Bayley down even more, making her more of an underdog in her quest. But will Charlotte’s victory be clean, or will she need help from Dana Brooke or a foreign object to topple Bayley?

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.