Stephanie Vaquer should be the woman who takes the WWE Women’s World Championship off Liv Morgan, and Becky Lynch should not. The history between the champion and La Primera makes the choice obvious.
Vaquer held the Women’s World Championship for 210 days before WrestleMania 42. Morgan won the belt on Night One in a match that lasted just under seven minutes, and Judgment Day provided the assist that made the finish possible.
The following weeks made things worse. Judgment Day attacked Vaquer on the April 27 episode of Raw, writing her off television with a shoulder injury that kept her out until August.
The sequence was never settled. A champion who lost her title to interference and then lost four months to the same faction has the cleanest revenge story available in the entire division.
Lynch and Vaquer both returned on the Aug. 3 Raw in Des Moines, arriving minutes apart in the same segment. Lynch went first, criticizing the champion for defending once in 100 days and calling her a “glorified valet.”
Vaquer arrived next and cleared out Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez before chasing Morgan back to the ring. Lynch watched from the turnbuckle rather than helping, and the segment ended on a staredown between the two challengers.
The Aug. 10 follow-up sharpened the problem. Morgan went for the ObLivion, Lynch countered with an Exploder Suplex, and Vaquer nearly took Lynch’s head off while trying to help. Yet another staredown followed while the champion escaped again.
Line-jumping is not the story WWE is telling. Two segments have now ended with the challengers staring at each other rather than the champion. This is the clearest possible signal that a three-way match is coming.
Money in the Bank on Oct. 10 is the obvious destination. WWE has seven weeks to decide which challenger walks out with the championship.
Lynch came into the feud straight off a Women’s Intercontinental Championship run and announced on arrival that the chapter was finished. Her resume already includes multiple world titles and a Hall of Fame trajectory that no single reign changes.
Losing costs Lynch nothing either. Two decades of accomplishments do not evaporate over one pinfall in a three-way. The Man can absorb a defeat in a triple threat without anybody questioning her standing, which is exactly what makes her the right person to eat the pin.
Vaquer sits in the opposite position. A first world title win on the main roster carries weight that a fifth or sixth reign simply cannot. La Primera arrived from NXT as one of the most hyped signings in years and held the title for 210 days. Four months then disappeared through no fault of her own.
Momentum is the whole argument, and WWE has a short window to use it. Vaquer returned to one of the loudest reactions on Raw all year and immediately reminded everyone why the division felt different when she was in it. Sitting on that for another six months would be a waste of the best thing WWE has going in the women’s division right now.
The revenge math works too. Morgan cheated her out of the belt with help, then helped put her on the shelf, and Judgment Day has spent the entire summer running Raw unchallenged. The debt eventually gets collected, and the wrestler owed it should be the one collecting.
Lynch is the perfect third wheel for exactly one reason. The Man makes a triple threat feel like a real fight instead of a two-woman rematch, and losing cleanly costs her nothing while protecting everybody else. Put the title on Vaquer at Money in the Bank and let Lynch chase her afterward for a completely different story. Raw would finally have the champion the division has been missing since April. La Primera earned the belt back the moment Judgment Day took it from her.
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