10 HUGE WWE Royal Rumble 2022 Predictions You Need To Know

3. The Baddest Woman On The Planet

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It's all out there now.

What started as a bit of conjecture and educated guesswork in the weeks leading up to the premium live event became stories and reports in the final few days - Ronda Rousey and WWE were about to do business again, and that business was set to be big.

A return at this show was all but confirmed, a potential match with Becky Lynch at WrestleMania was the follow-up line, and all of a sudden something WWE smartly left in the chamber in 2019 was about to be fired out for a 'Show Of Shows' that realistically needed something this huge to justify two "100,000+" nights of action in Dallas.

'The Baddest Woman On The Planet' famously debuted for the company at the climax of the first Women's Royal Rumble in 2018, and could well do that again here. But the thought of WWE going further with the idea is too intoxicating. The decision to announce the majority of entrants that may typically have been kept as a surprise seemed to suggest that bigger surprises lay in wait.

There's simply no bigger or more devastating than Rousey, and should those Joan Jett strains play out, there's only one woman winning.

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