WWE Raw Predictions: Natalya Betrays Ronda Rousey

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3. Natalya attacks Ronda Rousey after losing her Raw Women’s Championship match

The undisputed premier match on Raw this week is the Raw Women’s Championship match between Ronda Rousey and Natalya.

Natalya survived an exceptional eight-woman gauntlet match to earn this opportunity last week, and is now set to face one of her biggest friends and allies in order to capture gold.

The momentous stakes of this match may just be more than this friendship can handle however, as I predict Natalya will become a bit of a grinch and ruin Rousey’s celebrations after their match.

Once the surely hard-fought affair is over, I would be surprised to see anyone besides Ronda Rousey standing tall. She simply has too much star power, and too many major storylines waiting, to drop the women’s title.

That means all of Natalya’s hard work will be for naught, as she ends up empty-handed at the end of the night.

This, I believe, will finally trigger a heel turn for Natalya, something many people were expecting when she first began to align with Ronda Rousey on Raw. Natalya will attack Rousey after the match, laying her out in a devastating assault, before putting her in a sharpshooter.

Raw will subsequently close with Natalya standing over the champ, setting up a major feud for Rousey to focus on considering Becky Lynch and Charlotte are both on the blue brand currently.

It seems like there would be no better time than now to execute this kind of turn for Natalya. It’s really now or never for WWE to turn Natalya’s involvement in many of Ronda Rousey’s stories into a massive push for her.

Natalya won’t be the only one with coal in her stocking following WWE Raw however. In fact, a former acting Raw GM may just be primed to get some revenge for his recent horrible week.