14 Things You Might Have Missed From Last Night’s WWE Raw

4. Nia Jax Staring Down Ronda Rousey

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This Sunday, Alexa Bliss will challenge Nia Jax for the Raw Women's Title at Backlash. That's a WrestleMania rematch, and it's one WWE can use to cement Jax as the face of the division on Monday nights. It looks like WWE's writers are already looking beyond that and onto something different.

That's why, for a brief second, Jax entered the ring to look Ronda Rousey up and down before raising her (and Natalya's) hand.

It's risky to try and slide Ronda into the Raw Women's Title mix after her performance at WrestleMania a few weeks ago. She's blatantly a bigger star than anyone else in the female division, and that includes Nia. It's surely too soon to think about Rousey challenging for the title anyway, because she'd have to win it (that first loss must be earth-shattering) and Jax is only getting started.

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