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4. WWE Misses Opportunity to Avoid Heel vs. Heel Dynamic at Survivor Series

The Goddess of the WWE Alexa Bliss has been arguably the top women’s competitor on Raw over the past several months and with good reason.  She has been as impressive as anybody on the mic and in the ring and her recent feud with Mickie James has been a memorable one as well.

Bliss retained her Raw Women’s Championship against James at TLC, but it looked as if James still wasn’t done with Bliss.  And on last night’s Raw, James got another championship opportunity in the main event of Raw against Bliss.

It seemed like an example of seeing the writing on the wall that James would defeat Bliss and win the Raw Women’s Championship, but Bliss once again retained her title in a subpar match considering the two’s solid encounter at TLC.  Keeping Bliss as champion isn’t a bad thing, but it did mess up a potential fix for Survivor Series.

The card at Survivor Series has garnered positive and negative reactions out of the WWE universe with many claiming the card is lacking and features too many heel vs. heel matches.  The WWE could have avoided that in one match by having the babyface James defeat Bliss last night and go on to face the heel SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya at Survivor Series.

But with Bliss retaining, it will be a heel vs. heel showdown between the two women’s champions on the roster.  The match can still work given how both Bliss and Natalya are strong enough characters, but a babyface vs. heel match would have made things easier.

Pulling off babyface vs. babyface matches are relatively easy, but Bliss and Natalya will have to make a heel vs. heel match work in a battle of the current top two women’s competitors in WWE.