11 HUGE WWE Extreme Rules 2018 Predictions You Need To Know

7. Raw Women’s Championship - Alexa Bliss Vs. Nia Jax (Extreme Rules Match)

Extreme Rules 2018
WWE

The biggest star in the Raw Women's Title match will be sat front row, as pay-per-view icon and best wrestler in the entire company Ronda Rousey returns from her storyline suspension with a front row seat against her former and future supercard foes.

Rousey gave Nia Jax the best match of her WWE career last month following on from Alexa Bliss having two failed attempts at WrestleMania and Backlash. The stipulation should at least add a bit of heft to the story they tried in vain to tell on those occasions. It was mystifying as to why the matches were assembled for 'Five Feet Of Fury' to dominate WWE's 'Irresistible Force' and yet they trotted it out with the same result twice.

She will at least have weapons and legalised interference from Mickie James to help her cause this time, though the rage of the 'Rowdy' former UFC star may yet render this contest pointless. With either a three-way or Bliss/Rousey almost certainly set for SummerSlam, expect all the headlines to be centred around the one female from the flagship that still feels like a star.

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