After this past weekend's Elimination Chamber, WWE is well into WrestleMania season. The first "WWE Raw" after all of the drama didn't do much to advance one of the biggest WWE stories of all time — that will likely be saved for "WWE SmackDown,

After Bianca Belair won the women's Elimination Chamber match this past Saturday, she appeared at Raw to watch Rhea Ripley defend the women's world championship against Iyo Sky. Belair was scouting to see which woman she would go on to face for the title at WrestleMania, but her presence ended up being a deciding factor in the match.

Iyo Sky is the new WWE Women's World Champion. In the main event of this week's episode of WWE Raw on Netflix, Sky pinned Rhea Ripley to win the title -- her second world championship in WWE. The win came with Bianca Belair sitting ringside as the challenger for that championship at WrestleMania.

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IYO SKY is the new WWE Women’s World Champion. SKY defeated Rhea Ripley in the main event of Monday’s WWE Raw to win the Women’s World title, and is set to defend the title at WrestleMania 41

WWE Raw returned with three title matches including Rhea Ripley defending her crown. More matches could have be scheduled ahead of WrestleMania 41, including CM Punk vs Seth Rollins. The War Raiders defended their Tag Team Championship and Lyra Valkyria seeked revenge.