BECKY Lynch and Charlotte Flair stole the show at Evolution last week with their brutal Last Woman Standing Match for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.

The match went on before the PPV’s official main event, Ronda Rousey defending the Raw Women’s Championship against Nikki Bella (solid but nowhere close to Becky v Charlotte).

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After the show the respective champs Becky and Ronda came face-to-face for a tense verbal exchange.

Later that night, Becky took a shot at Ronda Rousey on social media, screen grabbing a Twitter notification that read: “Ronda Rousey followed you”.

Becky slyly commented: “She tried.”

WWE has since announced the pair will collide in a champion v champion match at Survivor Series.

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Last Tuesday on SmackDown, Becky issued a warning to Rousey, saying: “You call yourself the baddest woman on the planet but what planet? Because every single woman you stepped in the ring with was beaten before the opening bell. But that’s not how I’m built.

“I’ve travelled the world to smash people like you… I’m just walking into Survivor Series to rip your arm off.”

Despite the tough words, this feels like a foregone conclusion.

It’s the obvious move for “The Baddest Woman on the Planet” to defeat “The Irish Lass Kicker”. But it would be a mistake. Becky Lynch should defeat Ronda Rousey.

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Becky Lynch is now calling herself “The Man”. But she could also be the woman who takes the division to unchartered territory.

Becky’s tweet about Ronda is funny because fans know the truth.

Ronda Rousey is WWE’s golden girl – the biggest crossover mainstream star in the company and the crown jewel of its women’s division (Ironic, of course, because women aren’t allowed at WWE’s troubled Crown Jewel PPV in Saudi Arabia).

But Becky Lynch is emerging as the true star of WWE’s women’s division.

Ronda Rousey is over because she’s Ronda Rousey. Becky is over because she’s struck a chord with the fans. After years of solid work, she’s been given the ball and has run with it.

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Becky has put the whole package together – grappling skills, promos, psychology, aggression, and all the nuances and subtleties.

It’s no wonder the fans are cheering her. She’s the best character on WWE television.

Putting Becky up against Ronda is a dream match scenario for the fans. But WWE is taking a risk by facing them off.

The support for Becky is so strong it could turn fans against Ronda Rousey (for that match, at least) something WWE wants to avoid at all costs.

WWE was always going to push Ronda to the moon. But it doesn’t want a repeat of the reaction to John Cena and Roman Reigns.

This isn’t a criticism of Ronda Rousey. Every major match she’s had so far has been a success.

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She’s a natural wrestler, gets better on the mic every week, and makes opponents – women we know couldn’t touch her in real life – look credible with believable selling.

Ronda is having the most successful rookie year since Kurt Angle debuted in 1999/2000.

Of course, WWE is protecting her aura. So far Ronda is undefeated. WWE is saving her first loss for a big, dramatic moment.

And Survivor Series should be it. A loss for Ronda will mean nothing. If done correctly, it could even enhance her character and give her something to fight back from.

But for Becky, a win over “The Baddest Woman On The Planet” would mean everything.

This isn’t just about notching up wins and losses. There’s something else happening with Becky Lynch that WWE needs to seize while its hot – organic babyface heat.

Those chants for Becky at each and he cheers for her – even as a heel – over babyface Charlotte are real. There’s nothing manufactured about it.

(The manufactured babyface push, of course, is exactly what turned fans against Reigns and Cena.)

The fans love what Becky Lynch is doing. And there’s only so long before WWE will be forced to concede to her natural transition to babyface.

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That’s how it happened for Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. That’s how it happened for Batista. And that’s how it happened for Daniel Bryan.

The women’s division isn’t perfect – Evolution was a success in spite of WWE’s booking, not because of it. But still, the division has come so far in the last four years.

But what it’s always been missing is that true babyface star – a superstar fans rally behind because they’re invested on a deep emotional level.

No current female babyface superstar has that connection to the fans. Not Charlotte, not Bayley, not Natlaya, not even Ronda Rousey.

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WWE almost had it Sasha Banks in 2016, after transitioning from cocky heel Boss character on NXT to plucky underdog hero on Raw battling Charlotte Flair.

But WWE fumbled it with uneven booking and let Sasha slip down the card. Never mind first women’s Hell in a Cells or first ever women’s Money in he Bank matches.

WWE has the chance to genuinely break new ground by unleashing the women’s division’s very own Stone Cold (and for the first time, no less).

Becky Lynch beating Ronda Rousey at Survivor Series wouldn’t just be about taking Becky to the next level – it would be about taking the entire women’s division there too.