WWE Royal Rumble 2020: Predicting all 30 women before Survivor Series 2019

5. Kairi Sane

The other half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions alongside Asuka, Kairi Sane has enjoyed a steady if unspectacular start to life on the main roster. That unassuming start could be about to be left in the past, though, as a Royal Rumble win would announce Sane as a megastar, especially if she retains her much more interesting heel persona.

Regardless of who of the two the company turn babyface, a program against Asuka following a Royal Rumble win could be in the works, and would almost certainly provide a phenomenal set of matches. Kairi will enter the Royal Rumble, and when she does, she’ll be one of the heavy favorites to win the match.

4. Sasha Banks

Since her long overdue return to WWE programming in August, Sasha Banks has mostly been booked as the huge deal she should have been from the start. Her friendship with Bayley can’t last forever, and although it would regrettably require turning one of them babyface (Bayley has only just turned turned to the dark side and Banks is infinitely more interesting as a heel), a new program between the two would be a massive deal.

With Bayley going strong as Smackdown Women’s Champion, the time seems perfect for Sasha to enter and win the women’s Royal Rumble before turning on her friend in the build-up to WrestleMania.

3. Shayna Baszler

Shayna Baszler has practically been NXT Women’s Champion since the dawn of time itself; aside from a brief 71-day interlude from Kairi Sane, she’s held the strap for close to a year and a half.

Her time at the top of the NXT women’s division can’t go on forever though, as much as she’s being booked to display solid evidence to the contrary, and the Royal Rumble would be the perfect time to start her brand new megapush, be that aimed at regaining the NXT Women’s Championship or targeting either Raw or Smackdown‘s equivalent, should WWE decide that they really are the “main roster” after all.

Baszler’s MMA background fits well with the style that WWE are obsessed with right now, and she’s proven herself to be very good indeed in the ring. Almost guaranteed to be in the final four competitors left in the Royal Rumble.

2. Charlotte Flair

If the legends are true, nobody in the world is more than 15 feet away from a member of WWE Creative midway through suggesting a Charlotte Flair title win. Since her introduction to the main roster in 2015, Flair is a 10-time champion, having held the now defunct Diva’s Championship once, the Raw Women’s Championship four times and the Smackdown Women’s Championship five times.

She’s been champion so many times Big E has started making a meme out of it to amuse himself on live TV. Given WWE’s obvious adoration of her and her almost unmatched skill between the ropes, it’s a surprise there’s been two women’s Royal Rumble matches already without Charlotte winning one, and nobody would be even remotely shocked if that run ends in 2020.  There’s only one woman realistically more likely a winner …

1. Ronda Rousey

Having enjoyed one of the most critically acclaimed rookie years in WWE history, Ronda Rousey is currently taking time away from a company she absolutely doesn’t need in order to start a family. That doesn’t necessarily mean that WWE won’t think that they need Rousey, however, and as horribly predictable a result as it may be, Rousey winning the Royal Rumble to go after Becky Lynch and the Raw Women’s Championship, thereby reversing the storyline they told last year, would be a huge deal and could easily headline WrestleMania.

If Rousey isn’t pregnant by the time the Rumble comes to town, expect WWE to throw as much money at her as it takes for her to agree to return, and if she does return, there’s no chance on earth Ronda Rousey enters the Royal Rumble without winning it.

If she enters, she wins, full stop.