There’s a very interesting fan theory going around about Charlotte Flair’s return to
Smackdown, so we’ll see what’s going on there.
We’ll also check out what’s going on with Damage Control, and more
Let’s start things off with some of the rumors and fan theories surrounding Charlotte
Flair’s return
So like we were discussing a few weeks back, Charlotte Flair’s return is expected to
take place sometime in the Summer since she’s being advertised for Summerslam
Now despite her being inactive, Charlotte was still a part of the WWE Draft and was
drafted to Smackdown
So there is no mystery of guessing what brand she will belong to when she returns, WWE has
provided the information there that she will exclusively belong to the blue brand when
she returns
So the fact that Charlotte is returning to Smackdown has a lot of fans discussing the
obvious, biggest matchup there for that women’s roster
And that matchup is obviously Charlotte Flair versus Bianca Belair
Bianca and Charlotte did meet with each other in late 2021 on Raw, but it wasn’t really
much of a feud and rivalry, it was just a one-off match between the two of them
But that match left fans wanting more and to see a full fletched program between two
of the top talents in WWE
Originally, fans expected for Charlotte to make her 2022 return on the Raw brand to confront
Bianca Belair and possibly set up a match at Wrestlemania 39, but that unfortunately
didn’t happen
instead of facing each other for a title, Bianca and Charlotte were both walking into
Wrestlemania 39 as their brands respective women’s champions
But even though the match didn’t happen at Wrestlemania 39, the fan discussion for
this dream match and feud hasn’t settled down at all
Bianca has made it known that one of her little side goals to accomplish in WWE is to defeat
and pin all of the four horsewomen in WWE
Bianca so far has pinned and defeated Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch… the last
one left on that four horsewomen list to defeat is obviously Charlotte Flair
So we didn’t see it in 2022, but what if we see it go down in 2023?
What if Charlotte Flair makes her Smackdown return to confront Bianca Belair and make
it known that she wants the title that Bianca Belair is holding?
And it’ll create a really big match up for the women’s division
In one corner, you have the the longest reigning women’s champion of the modern era with
Bianca Belair, who has defeated everyone
And in the other corner, you have Charlotte Flair, the former 14 time women’s champion,
the ultimate title collector in recent WWE history
Charlotte may not have a long title reign in the books like Bianca Belair, but Charlotte
has been known to easily pick up big wins and capture titles in big matches all the
time, so she would pose a big threat to Bianca Belair
Of course it’s a big magnitude match, so there’s really only two locations they could
possibly pull the trigger at for this match
Those two locations being either Summerslam or Wrestlemania
That seems to be the most ideal events for this big dream match and feud to take place
at
So be on the lookout for Charlotte’s return and if we could see this matchup take place
shortly after she returns to WWE
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Damage Control’s tension has been one of the biggest things to monitor over the last
few weeks, and their miscommunication with each other continues to get worse
Which brings us to the May 12th edition of Smackdown and what went wrong there for them
This edition of Smackdown featured Bayley and Dakota Kai challenging Liv Morgan and
Raquel Rodriguez for the women’s tag team titles
As always, the finish of this match only ended up creating more issues for Damage Control
Bayley sets up a little scheme towards the end of the match for Dakota Kai to distract
the referee while iyo hands over the title to Bayley so that Bayley can use it as a weapon
on Liv Morgan
But Iyo Sky takes too long and Raquel ends up stopping Iyo from handing over the title
to Bayley, which also leads to Liv Morgan rolling Bayley up for the win
And all three Damage Control members have shocked and disappointed looks on their faces
after that outcome
And they’re all getting fed up because like we mentioned earlier, this isn’t a one week
or two week strain of bad luck, Damage Control has been having months upon months of bad
luck
You can possibly mark the beginning of their bad luck to when they lost their WWE women’s
tag team titles to Becky Lynch and Lita a few weeks before Wrestlemania
And then after that, they lost at Wrestlemania, Iyo lost her title match at Backlash, Bayley
and Dakota lost their title match on Smackdown…
so it’s just this trend of misfortune and bad luck that will possibly continue for Damage
Control
Maybe they’ll have some little false victories in the coming weeks, but overall, it looks
like some more hard times are on the way for the group
The only real question left to ask is who turns on each other first?
Will Bayley treat Dakota and Iyo similar to how she treated Sasha Banks, and strike first
on them?
Well the Sasha situation was a bit different.
Bayley attacked Sasha out of paranoia because she felt like Sasha was eyeing the title and
quietly plotting against her, so Bayley wanted to strike first
But in Damage Control’s case, there doesn’t appear to be any case for jealously or paranoia,
they’re all collectively losing together as a group
But that doesn’t mean that Bayley won’t attack them, Bayley could still end up turning
on Dakota and Iyo out of pure frustration with so many losses
Obviously, Bayley isn’t used to losing big matches and getting embarrassed like this
over and over, so she could eventually snap
But Dakota and Iyo snapping and striking on Bayley first appears to be on the table as
well
And it’ll be perfect karma and a full circle moment for Bayley’s character because of
what she did to Sasha Banks all those years ago
Now it’ll be Bayley getting brutally betrayed by those who were close to her, it would be
poetic in that regard
But it’s a realistic option, maybe Dakota and Iyo truly feel like they’ve been holding
up all the weight for Damage Control the whole entire time
Dakota and Iyo won multiple titles during Damage Control’s time together compared
to Bayley’s zero titles won during their time together
So Dakota and Iyo definitely have every right to reach their breaking point and believe
that Bayley is the weak link, so they kick her out the group
And it is something we’ve seen a few times in recent WWE history, such as with Retribution
and The Judgment Day
Those two groups did turn on their original leaders and kick them out the group, and that
same situation does make a lot of sense for Damage Control
In Bayley’s mind, she probably puts all the blame on Dakota and Iyo for constantly
screwing up
but in Dakota and Iyo’s mind, Bayley is definitely the problem
So that’s basically wants going on right now, Bayley is pointing the finger of blame
at Dakota and Iyo, but they’re pointing it right back at her
Maybe Damage Control will continue to try and ride out this wave of bad luck and see
if it’ll end soon, but after it just continues to go in that negative route, maybe that’s
when we’ll see that big breaking point from either Bayley, or from Dakota Kai and Iyo
Sky
So it’ll be interesting to see how this fallout continues to unfold for Damage Control
over on Smackdown
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories with Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, and Damage
Control
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