What if Carmella wins the women’s Royal Rumble match?

#3 Carmella wins the SmackDown Women’s Championship at ‘Mania

Carmella could be the first women's Royal Rumble winner to convert that victory into a title at 'Mania.

We are coming up on just the second edition of the women’s Royal Rumble match. The Rumble itself is one of WWE’s most honoured traditions, in no small part because of the history of winning that match offering a road towards winning a world title at the biggest show of the year. It’s an uncomfortable truth that, regardless of how well received that first women’s Rumble was, it nonetheless didn’t produce a new champion at WrestleMania.

It makes sense that WWE doesn’t have Rumble winners go on to win titles every time out, as that could easily kill the drama off of ‘Mania title matches. However, in order to make the women’s Rumble feel like it has a comparable immensity to the men’s version, it really would help for the winner—and especially an underdog winner—to parlay that January victory into WrestleMania glory. If Carmella wins the Rumble, it would make all the sense in the world for her to go on to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship on her (relative) home turf in New Jersey.