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#3 Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Io Shirai for the NXT Women's Championship match
In what could be the best match on the card, Charlotte Flair puts her NXT Women's Championship against Rhea Ripley and Io Shirai in a very tasty triple threat.
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At WrestleMania, we saw what Ripley and Flair could do and adding Shirai to them only adds to the excitement. This match has a 'Match of the Year' candidate written all over it, and this is no exaggeration. Rhea Ripley is probably NXT's (and maybe all of WWE) best prospect of a character, Io Shirai is one of the smoothest and most spectacular workers in the whole company, and Charlotte Flair is one of the greatest big-match performers in the world (not just for women).
When analyzing this match, a lot of factors have to be regarded. First, the fact that Charlotte Flair is basically a 'Free Agent' showing up on all the brands. Recently, she had #1 contender's matches on RAW, which can be argued that it devaluates the NXT title and doesn't give NXT the importance that it was (to a decent extent) given during the Survivor Series build last year. Second, stemming from that first point, is the fact that this triple threat (despite being a great match) is only another way of protecting Charlotte in either case of losing or retaining.
If Flair retains, then this match will serve as a way to have her involved in another big match where she doesn't make a lot of effort (though we know she is a tremendous worker). If she loses the title, then it's easy to assume that it will be a way to drop it without having to pin her directly and eventually regain it if they are truly behind the idea of having her as the one to break her dad's (at least in WWE's cannon) record of 17 world titles, from which she has now 12.
It's clear that Flair is the match's most valuable asset even beyond being the NXT Women's Champion, and not laying down to the eventual winner if she drops the title might be taken the wrong way by the fans who can get quite critical about her at times.
Prediction: Io Shirai to win (by pinning Rhea Ripley)
