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WWE Universal Championship Match: Kevin Owens (c) vs. Note: this is the older version of the picture back when Roman Reigns still had the United States Championship I'm leaning towards Strowman challenging Reigns and Undertaker challenging AJ Styles, but with the Elimination Chamber being for the WWE Championship, this cements my pick as The Undertaker for the win. PREDICTION: Braun Strowman, Samoa Joe, The Undertaker, or Chris Jericho are my current top picks. One of those two matches will be for the Universal title while I think The Undertaker will face AJ Styles for the WWE Championship and John Cena will be paired up with Samoa Joe.ĬONFIRMED ENTRANTS: 1) Goldberg, 2) Brock Lesnar, 3) Chris Jericho, 4) Braun Strowman, 5) Big E, 6) Kofi Kingston, 7) Xavier Woods, 8) Baron Corbin, 9) Sami Zayn, 10) The Undertaker, 11) The Miz, 12) Dean Ambrose, 13) Dolph Ziggler, 14) Cesaro, 15) Sheamus, 16) Bray Wyatt, 17) Randy Orton, 18) Luke Harper, 19) Big Show, 20) Big Cass, 21) Rusev, 22) Mojo Rawley I'm hoping for Jericho to challenge Owens for the Universal Championship since that cuts off the Reigns/Strowman possibility and pushes them down to a midcard feud, which I think would work better for them, as WWE damn sure better have learned their lesson from the past few years that fans won't tolerate Reigns being the go-to guy for WrestleMania for a while (and keep in mind, I don't dislike Reigns, but that's just the truth of the matter). I really hope they don't make the mistake of having Reigns beat Owens and Strowman win the Royal Rumble, as it will backfire and blow up in their faces. They still keep advertising Elimination Chamber as a SmackDown event, which would mean to me that a Raw superstar logically wins the Royal Rumble. However, on January 9th, Jericho won the United States Championship from Roman Reigns, which now makes me nervous that Reigns will defeat Kevin Owens for the Universal Championship and the Owens/Jericho match will go from a main event to a midcard match for the United States title instead.Īfter all those twists and turns, I now have to say my #1 suspect is The Undertaker, but this is far from a guarantee. Then, I started thinking this was Chris Jericho's to win as he'd replace Finn Balor (who probably won't return in time) as the opponent for Kevin Owens. Clearly, that went out the window when Cena was announced to challenge for the title instead of The Undertaker.
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Then, I moved on to a 50/50 shot between John Cena and Finn Balor, with my thought being The Undertaker would lose to AJ Styles at the Royal Rumble and Cena would go on to win his 16th world title at WrestleMania from The Phenomenal One. He did turn face, but they clearly want to do a match against Triple H instead, so I'd take him out of the running. A year ago, I thought a babyface Seth Rollins would win.