10 Most Over Wrestlers On WWE SmackDown Right Now

6. Bianca Belair

Bianca Belair
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It's an immense credit to Bianca Belair's talents that she's heard more than just the WrestleMania 37 crowd's roar since becoming SmackDown Women's Champion.

A risible ThunderDome series with Bayley only yielded one good match as penance for weeks and weeks of awful segments that genuinely endangered the 'EST' character Belair had worked hard to craft for several years in NXT. The signs were worrying in general - WWE had been slapdash in their approach to the first clash with Sasha Banks, seemingly reliant on the contest to deliver where the story had badly failed.

An appearance at Rolling Loud festival was a chronic misfire on the night, but WWE won't ever let that be the prevailing take. A photograph of Belair entering in front of thousands of festival-goers will survive in place of video footage with library-levels of response from the crowd, and renewed hostilities will hopefully relight a fire that the booking has otherwise extinguished.

 
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