10 New Directions After WWE Extreme Rules 2022

5. Teased Dissension In Damage CTRL’s Ranks?

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Where-oh-where does Bayley go from here?

Her big Raw Women's Title challenge is over. She was soundly thumped by Bianca Belair in a ladder bout on Saturday's pay-per-view, and the announcers implied she'd be mad with Damage CRTL stablemates IYO SKY and Dakota Kai for failing to help get the job done.

Not even dressing up as Kane could help Bayley, for f*ck sake! Seriously though, WWE only knows one way to take this: Damage CTRL will exhibit some tension during backstage skits on Raw going forwards, and it could be on IYO/Dakota to prove themselves to their leader all over again.

Is this ideal? Nah, far from it, but a heel faction can't be slapped around by one babyface then think everything's rosy in the garden. Questions will be asked, and Bayley might even need to turn babyface for a run opposite Ronda Rousey over on SmackDown eventually.

Just throwing that out there, because the challenger pool is pretty sparse over there.

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