10 New Directions After WWE Battleground 2016

Despite what was said earlier, Sasha Banks and Bayley weren’t the only women to have made headlines at Battleground on Sunday. Natalya was also in impressive form as she forced Becky Lynch to tap out and seemingly concluded her rivalry with the Irishwoman.

In SmackDown’s female division of six (Natalya, Lynch, Alexa Bliss, Carmella, Eva Marie, and Naomi), you’d think that win would put her at the very top of the pile. If that is the case, she deserves to be the champion. Not necessarily the Women’s Champion, since that was drafted to Raw, but perhaps a new SmackDown-exclusive Women’s Champion. Just as long as it’s not the Divas title...

Simply put, you’d expect the women on SmackDown to have something to focus their attention on. There hasn’t been any public word on the Women’s Championship being a cross-brand title, so a new belt for SmackDown may be the most likely outcome.

Furthermore, as well as picking up that big win over Lynch, Natalya was far more assured in her role as the heel and looked very much like championship material out there.

It remains to be seen whether one title for a division of six could work, but if that proves to be the route they take, then Natalya’s the woman for the job.