Ranking Women's WWE Elimination Chamber 2018 Competitors' Chances of Winning

At Elimination Chamber 2018, we will see the first-ever women's division Elimination Chamber match, featuring Alexa Bliss defending her Raw Women's Championship against Bayley, Mandy Rose, Mickie James, Sasha Banks and Sonya Deville.

The fact that this is happening at all is something to be celebrated in its own right, but despite how the entire company can share in the glory, there will be only one woman who will stand tall and become the actual victor.

This is important not just for the sake of history and statistics, but because the title is on the line and as such, a championship match at the biggest show of the year, WrestleMania 34.

Looking at the field of competitors, how do they fare against each other in terms of their likelihood of winning?

Let's break down the participants and rank them from worst to best and see who stands the best chance at leaving with the title around her waist.

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#6 and #5 (TIE) Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose

Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose of Absolution

The bottom of the barrel is really a shared spot for the two members of Absolution, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville.

Essentially, they're on equal footing, where they have absolutely zero chance of winning this match for a handful of reasons.

First things first, they are the least experienced wrestlers of the bunch and the freshest on the roster, so they can't be trusted to be not only given the championship on a regular basis but certainly not considered important enough to hold that title going into WrestleMania of all shows.

That is simply not going to happen when there are four other options of women who are better suited to handle that responsibility in a much more reliable way.

Another factor is how they're part of a stable, and since Paige is the centerpiece—even with her in-ring career being finished—it would seem strange for one of them to have the title while the other was relegated to second-fiddle.

If Paige were wrestling here, Deville and Rose could have provided a means for her to win the title, but the underlings can't achieve that in their own right.

They may get an elimination of two, but they won't be making it to the finals of this match by any means and are mostly there to fill out the numbers and try not to get pushed aside too much.

#4 Mickie James

The veteran of the match, Mickie James

It hurts to put Mickie James so low on this list, but if we're being realistic, she simply doesn't top the three other stars left to talk about, and there is little to no argument about that.

She is undoubtedly a future Hall of Famer, having won the Divas and Women's Championship a total of six times and being at the forefront of women's wrestling during an era that prioritized models rather than athletes since she was able to successfully accomplish both at the same time.

Since returning to WWE, though, she has struggled to remain relevant and hasn't actually done all that much of anything.

On a regular basis, she's either not on the shows or she's in a tag team match—often on the losing end, as well—and rarely involved in anything noteworthy.

James is another number here and a veteran who can help guide the match's style, but she's unlikely to even score a pin for herself, let alone survive it all.

The only thing that makes her slightly above the Absolution group is that she is still a former multi-time champion, so if push came to shove, she could always win another title and it wouldn't seem too crazy.

#3 Bayley

Could Bayley turn her career around with a win here?

Once upon a time, Bayley fans were up in arms over the fact that she was the only member of The Four Horsewomen to still be in NXT while Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks were up on the main roster.

She eventually got her time and a Championship reign, but those fans have been dwindling as the months go by, to the point where she no longer has anywhere near the same pull that she used to.

Easily, she's still prioritized more than Absolution would be in this match or Mickie James will probably ever be on Raw right now, but with the final three names on this list, Bayley comes up short in almost every category in comparison.

It's possible a heel turn down the line could freshen up her character, but that isn't going to happen here, as it's too rushed of a job to have her become a villain, win the title, push Alexa Bliss out of the scene and start up a feud with someone like Asuka in the span of one month.

Bayley could see a new light if she moves over to SmackDown after the next Superstar Shake-Up, but on Raw, she's going to be pushed aside in favor of plenty of other names until she can reconnect with the WWE Universe.

#2 Sasha Banks

Will The Boss be in charge come February 25th?

It might seem weird to put Sasha Banks over Bayley when they just had a match against each other with The Boss being defeated, but what gives her the edge to earn the runner-up place on this list is her performance at the Royal Rumble.

Arguably, the three women who had the best showings in the women's Royal Rumble were Asuka, Nia Jax and Banks—the latter being the Iron Woman of the match and a member of the final four.

She's a former four-time champion, even though her title reigns amount to a staggeringly pitiful amount of roughly 80 days combined, whereas Bayley had one reign of 76 days and both Charlotte and Alexa have over triple her total.

That goes to show that WWE values Banks enough to keep her in the spotlight, but not enough to make her the mainstay, which is why she ultimately will end up losing this match even if she takes out nearly every other woman inside the chamber.

When push comes to shove, she'll have one more woman in her way, and that woman is going to defeat her.

#1 Alexa Bliss

You can't keep a goddess down.

Unless there are plans to do some wild multi-woman match this year at WrestleMania, there's absolutely no reason to take the title off Alexa Bliss in favor of putting it on any of the alternatives.

Bliss has proven herself to be the premier talent as far as the women's division characters goes, even if she isn't the best in-ring performer of the bunch, because she commands a presence with her mic skills that far outshines not just her female peers, but many of her male counterparts, too.

The current Raw women's champion has a built-in storyline with Nia Jax due to their friendship, has been ducking Asuka ever since she debuted on the main roster and has held this title long enough that WrestleMania would be the perfect time to lose it and transition over to a new champion—something that would feel odd to see happen at Elimination Chamber instead, particularly if the belt then changes so quickly after that in New Orleans right afterward.

Bliss has the advantage of potentially being able to enter the match at the very end, or at least being scrappy enough to avoid taking too much damage while other people are focused on each other, since she's a crafty heel who will look for ways to cheat or get any advantage.

It's much simpler to keep the title where it is than to try to make too many changes on the Road to WrestleMania, especially considering when the current champion is someone so over with the crowd that she deserves that spot on the biggest show of the year.

Those are my picks, but what is your ranking? Tell us your predictions list in the comments section below!