10 New Directions For WWE After King And Queen Of The Ring 2024

4. Queen Nia Jax Challenging Bayley

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There's no mystery about what Nia Jax has in the pipeline.

The brand new Queen Of The Ring will look to take her crown and trade it for Bayley's Women's Title. A tense run-in on TV shortly before WWE travelled to Saudi Arabia gave the game away on that, which is fair enough. Nia is exactly the kind of overwhelming challenge Bayley needs right now.

Some friends this guy spoke to straight after Nia won the crown seem to believe she's a shoe-in to grab the championship too. Your writer here isn't convinced by that - he thinks it's much more likely that Triple H uses Jax as a means to get Bayley's title reign up and running. It's been mediocre thus far, and that has to change.

Besides, Liv Morgan will be doing the gloating heel thing for a while over on Raw, so it'd be nice to have a babyface counterpoint on SmackDown. Bayley, for all her troubles, offers that. It wouldn't actually be a bad shout to have Nia kayfabe injure the champ, then have Bayley rehab her way back in time for SummerSlam.

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