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Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch at WrestleMania was thankfully inevitable

By Christopher Jeter

MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA - JULY 23: Bianca Belair onstage during the WWE Smack Down on day 1 at Rolling Loud Miami 2021at Hard Rock Stadium on July 23, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images)
MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA - JULY 23: Bianca Belair onstage during the WWE Smack Down on day 1 at Rolling Loud Miami 2021at Hard Rock Stadium on July 23, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images) /
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For months, lots of WWE fans have pined for Bianca Belair to gain some semblance of revenge for Becky Lynch beating her in less than 30 seconds at SummerSlam. Now that Belair has outlasted five other women inside the Elimination Chamber at the propaganda show, that time may have finally arrived in the biggest possible spot.

Belair and Lynch will now face each other at one of the nights of WrestleMania 38 in a match that holds far more heart and backstory than the other scheduled women’s championship match. So, even though WWE penciled in other plans for “The Showcase of the Immortals”, going back to this pairing was the obvious decision.

Going with Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch for WrestleMania 38 is the right move.

Looking at the current state of the Raw Women’s division, Lynch was running out of viable challengers to face. She had already dispatched of Liv Morgan numerous times, most recently at the Day 1 pay-per-view. She then did the same to Doudrop at the Royal Rumble in a rare heel vs. heel match designed to take advantage of Lynch’s still steady popularity.

As for everyone else, Rhea Ripley, Nikki A.S.H., Queen Zelina, and Carmella had primarily feuded with each other over the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships, and Zelina, Carmella and Nikki’s status as heels and undercard dorks make them a tough sell as contenders for Lynch. And Dana Brooke and Tamina chasing after the 24/7 Championship more or less speaks for itself.

Knowing this, it’s no surprise that WWE brought Lita back to work opposite Lynch at the propaganda show. That’s not a complaint, to be clear (at least not the idea of Lynch facing Lita), but it does illustrate how bare the cupboard was for the Raw creative team, even if they are the reason for the limited options.

This brings us to Belair. While WWE hasn’t gotten everything right with “The EST”, she has remained over with the fans and still comes across as the can’t-miss star that they and WWE still believe she can be, but so much of those hopes rest on whether her character hands “Big Time Becks” that needed comeuppance. It’s the sort of thing that separates the top babyfaces with the scrubs who are there to put the heels over.

If WWE recognizes this difference and does the right thing with Belair, it would cement another lady as a star in the division. It would also make it a little easier for the company to book big matches without needing to check the availability of former stars and part-timers.

Most importantly, though, it would restore a bit of the lost good faith for the company from a booking standpoint. For years, the familiar cries of “let it play out” have echoed throughout WWE fandom only for those pleas to become hollow hopes from an exhausted fanbase, but Belair getting her revenge at ‘Mania would be a welcome exception, and, hopefully, a sign that the babyface-centered company still has that Midas touch.

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Whether it was the original plan or not, that is something worth looking forward to.