In a moment that almost everyone saw coming, Tiffany Stratton stabbed Chelsea Green in the back at Crown Jewel 2026 by cashing in her Money in the Bank contract to become new WWE Women’s Champion.

While fans may not be thrilled with the direction WWE has gone in with Money in the Bank, at the very least they gave us this heel turn within a month of Stratton winning the briefcase, rather than dragging out a predictable outcome.

Criticism for Stratton winning Money in the Bank aside, this heel turn should give her character a well needed refresh and hopefully lead to some interesting stories towards the end of 2026 and early 2027.

But who will actually wrestle that championship away from Stratton now that she’s got it? Here are three potential options:

Chelsea Green

The obvious choice to dethrone Tiffany Stratton is, of course, the woman who the new champion betrayed on Saturday in Riyadh: Chelsea Green.

Green was seemingly the only person who didn’t telegraph Stratton’s intentions for her Money in the Bank briefcase and she paid the price for it by having both the WWE Women’s Title AND Crown Jewel Championship snatched from her possession.

With Stratton now playing the classic heel “mean girl” type character, fans will be desperate to see the sympathetic Green stand up to the new champion and claim her gold back before the end of the year.

Will that actually happen though? It might, but it’s probably more likely WWE just uses Green to get further heat on Stratton until she’s dethroned by a bigger name later down the line. That would be a crying shame, but WWE hasn’t given fans a whole lot of reason to believe they actually view Green as a true main event star, no matter how popular she becomes.

Rhea Ripley

Speaking of big stars, there really is no one quite at Rhea Ripley’s level throughout the WWE locker room and she has been a real miss for the company throughout the past six months.

It’s evident that her injury absence has been longer than WWE probably expected, as Chelsea Green’s title reign was initially given the “interim” tag, before that was dropped.

At the time WWE announced that there would be an interim champion crowned, they said that Ripley would face off with the title holder in a unification match once she was medically cleared.

While it may not be dubbed a “unification match” WWE’s plans will likely still be the same: have Ripley immediately challenge the Women’s Champion when she makes her return.

Ripley vs. Stratton is a big match and one that could potentially feature at WrestleMania 43, should Stratton’s run as champion last until then.

Bianca Belair

Another potential WrestleMania 43 opponent for Stratton (or Ripley) would be Bianca Belair.

“The EST” has now been away from the ring for over 18 months, initially due to a complicated hand injury and then her pregnancy with her and Montez Ford’s first child together.

While we have no idea what Belair’s return timeline looks like, many are hopeful that she could re-emerge as a surprise entrant in the 2027 women’s Royal Rumble.

If she is in that match, she’d likely be a favorite to win the entire thing and potentially book her spot in a major WWE Women’s Championship match at WrestleMania 43.