Rhiyo’s WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship

There are just a few reasons it’s hard to assume WWE not putting the ladies’s tag straps back on Charlexa eventually. You’ve gotten to think the match is coming — the 2 teams have not faced one another, and it could be a marquee matchup that you simply’d expect either as a TV foremost event or a PLE match. Rhiyo looks like they’ll need to take care of the “Raw” tag division before moving on to “SmackDown,” if this past Monday’s motion is any indication, in order that they’d have the option to get just a few defenses under their belts before losing the titles. SKY and Ripley are each top stars and former world champions; knowing the way in which WWE operates, it should take a similarly prestigious duo to unseat them, and Flair and Bliss fit the bill. They’re also just extremely popular in their very own right, and their first title reign was going pretty much before losing the belts to The Kabuki Warriors. They were even WINC’s tag team of the 12 months in 2025!

Greater than Flair and Bliss needing the ladies’s tag titles, though, it seems likely that WWE will realize in fairly short order that “SmackDown” needs the ladies’s tag titles. With the show moving back to a few hours, the blue brand appears to be raiding “NXT,” specifically the ladies’s division, to spice up the roster. Those talents are going to wish something to fight for, and moving the tag belts back primarily back to Friday nights would give them that. Charlexa won’t seem to be essentially the most exciting choice to dethrone Rhiyo, but doing so would put the tag belts in reach of a complete host of up-and-coming female stars, assuming the likes of Jacy Jayne and Blake Monroe are truly certain for the foremost roster.

Let’s be real about this: Lyra Valkyria and Bayley are currently two of WWE’s most underutilized talents. You’d think Bayley can be a made woman on this company after the last 10+ years of consistent excellence, but her booking in 2025 was so bad that fans are fantasizing about her joining best friend Mercedes Mone in AEW. Meanwhile, Lyra Valkyria appeared to have a rocket strapped to her when she became the first-ever women’s Intercontinental Champion, but she’s been an afterthought since losing her feud with Becky Lynch at SummerSlam despite being one among WWE’s most talented young stars. There’s nothing unsuitable with being within the tag division, but these two would wish some serious build-up to be in a spot where they might believably take down Rhiyo.

Here at WINC, we would like to see them get that build-up. Don’t do the title change now or any time soon — take all of it the way in which until WrestleMania or beyond if needed. But when any team that hasn’t yet held the titles should ultimately get the rub from dethroning SKY and Ripley, it’s Bayley and Valkyria. Quite frankly, they’re just too good to be doing anything. They deserve more time, each within the ring (for Valkyria’s development) and on the mic (so Bayley can express her underserved schizophrenic character) and so they should be pushed to champion status. Bayley is a former world champion and Valkyria is a future one — there isn’t any higher team for WWE to determine as being on Rhiyo’s level.