WWE Women's Royal Rumble 2022: Predicting ALL 30 Entrants

7. Xia Li

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With supremely detailed comic book backstories and f*cking lightning bolts shooting out of her fingers, Xia Li arrived on SmackDown with an awful lot of buzz.

That's dissipated immediately in line with her disappearance from television. She's working house shows with Natalya after losing on them to Shotzi, which is either encouraging or concerning based on what we all know that might mean about talent votes of confidence from those at the top table.

She's been put through the ringer by the WWE/NXT creative machine though - a strong Rumble appearance would go some way to assuaging concerns that her time with the company is becoming borrowed.

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