8 Next Steps For WWE Raw Women’s Championship

4. Nia Jax Challenges

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Around Survivor Series, we saw the embryonic stages of a feud between Nia Jax and Sasha Banks, with the dominating superstar threatening the smaller Boss.

If she gets a lengthy title reign, Sasha will need a new challenger, and Nia is probably the best woman on the Raw roster to give Banks a run for her money. Some will say that Jax should be kept from the title scene until she’s going to actually win, but let’s face it: There aren’t a ton of options right now, and there are ways to give Nia a title chase while protecting her.

Jax could lose by DQ or countout, or maybe someone else (Dana Brooke? Alicia Fox?) turns it into a triple threat. There are a few ways to do this, but getting Nia into the mix is probably the right call early in 2017.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.