Paige And Brie Bella’s WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship

The most important surprise of WWE WrestleMania 42 was the return of Paige, former AEW Women’s World Champion Saraya, who teamed alongside Brie Bella to exchange the injured Nikki Bella. The pair went on to capture the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship from the Irresistible Forces, Lash Legend and Nia Jax, in a four-way match involving Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, in addition to Lyra Valkyria and Bayley.

It was Paige’s first time getting physical in a WWE ring since December 2017 after she suffered what was then considered a career-ending neck injury. The match was Brie’s first WrestleMania since her initial retirement following WrestleMania 32. The night was meant to be a giant comeback for the Bellas Twins, but ended up turning into an incredible moment for Paige and Brie.

The ladies’s tag team division is pretty solid as of late, however the 4 teams involved within the WrestleMania match are still the strongest. There are a number of other teams who might be thrown into the combo, corresponding to Women’s United States Champion Giulia and Kiana James, in addition to the Kabuki Warriors, though Asuka and Kairi Sane could possibly be on the outs. Former women’s tag champions, Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY, recently went their separate ways again following Ripley’s WWE Women’s Championship victory, so the choices for who could dethrone Paige and Brie are again strong, but limited.

Looming within the background of the division is, in fact, Nikki, who stated in the course of the ‘Mania post-show that she underwent surgery for her ankle injury. She responded to a fan on X (formerly Twitter) and said she’ll hopefully be cleared in six to eight weeks. Nikki was working heel before the return of her sister, and she or he’s likely not going to take kindly to Paige taking her spot when she’s good to get back within the ring.

It is the heel turn of a cleared Nikki that may lead to anyone claiming the Women’s Tag Team Championships, nevertheless it would make sense for Brie and Paige to drop them back to the present heels in the combo of teams, Legend, and Jax. When Nikki is cleared, the storyline could easily be that Paige in some way, unintentionally,  costs herself and Brie the match against the Irresistible Forcey, angering the Bella Twin; or Nikki herself could interfere and take out Paige, without the referee seeing, resulting in Jax and Legend reclaiming the gold.

Getting the titles back on the previous champions is sensible, as every other team, at the very least those involved within the WrestleMania four-way, are babyfaces. Having a heel team hold the gold while Nikki feuds with Paige, before her eventual reunion together with her sister, who also likely turns heel eventually, leaves options open for who captures the gold next. That babyface team would lose to the heel Bellas. It will even be an ideal search for Legend, who continues to be recent to the important roster, to have held the titles twice alongside Jax, who has only been helpful to her growth as a wrestler.

Sure, the Bellas could feud with the Irresistible Forces when Nikki is healthy, and so they’re back as a team, nevertheless it just seems like they also needs to be heels. Turning on Paige could be the best technique to accomplish not only that, but additionally getting the titles to vary hands while they finish that storyline with their fellow former Divas Champion. After that, Paige can go her own way, likely onward to either the Women’s United States Championship or Intercontinental title, and the Bellas eventually win the gold back from whoever wins the tag titles from Jax and Legend.

Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss deserve one other run with the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships before they inevitably go their separate ways into singles competition. This partnership has been the very best thing for Flair’s character in years, and it was a much-needed refresher for her, so that they should hold the tag gold one final time, at the very least.

Nikki could cost Paige and Brie their match for the titles against Bliss and Flair, and the brand new champions could reign while the Bellas’ storyline unfolds and so they get back together as a heel team. The Bellas then winning the gold from Flair and Bliss could then send the babyface team right into a breakup angle. Though the breakup may not must be a dramatic story, it could definitely be an interesting angle that is at all times much-needed on “WWE SmackDown.”

Outside of the tag title picture, after they lose to the Bellas, Bliss could go for the Women’s United States Championship, with Flair on the verge of a crash out, but perhaps keeping it together when Bliss actually does win the gold, proving she really has modified. The “will they, won’t they” dramatic breakup angle could conclude in a positive way, which might only proceed to be good for Flair’s character.

Irrespective of who will or who should win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships next from Brie and Paige, that team’s fate seems set before their reign even begins. The Bellas Twins will get their tag title reign after Nikki is cleared and kicks Paige to the curb, with their big moment of capturing the gold perhaps going down at SummerSlam.