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WWE Clash of Champions 2019: Every Match Ranked

Well, the champions have clashed and we’re sat on the other side of it thinking…it was a decent show. There were a handful of matches that underwhelmed in different ways, but there were just as many matches that lived up to expectations and overall I came away from the show feeling like I had a nice time.

So let’s waste no time and get right into ranking every match from Clash of Champions 2019

11 – Bayley(c) def. Charlotte Flair
(Smackdown Women’s Championship)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that Bayley’s still champion, but was a bit of an odd way to go about it.

The finish itself is something I’m fine with. It could’ve been given a bit more build to it and it would’ve been nice if the commentators actually noticed it before 2 minutes after the fact, but this was a good way for Bayley to retain the title without throwing the match out completely, especially considering what would happen with the Raw Women’s Championship later on in the show.

My main problem with this match – and the reason I’ve placed it last – is that there was barely any kind of a match before the finish. We know Charlotte and Bayley can put on a great match, we’ve seen it several times before, but instead was just got 3 minutes of Charlotte dominating Bayley before Bayley used the exposed turnbuckle and win. I usually don’t have a problem with an exposed turnbuckle being an instant KO, because it’s normally used at the end of a full-length match, but right at the beginning like this just makes Charlotte feel a bit weak.

Like I said, I’m happy with the result and I can’t even complain too much about the finish, but I was really looking forward to a decent length match between these two and I didn’t get it.

10 – Kofi Kingston(c) def. Randy Orton
(WWE Championship)

You know that one match Randy Orton’s wrestled over and over for the past 12 years? This was that.

It was the absolute embodiment of what you think of when someone says “Typical Randy Orton match”, he spent far too long on “wearing his opponent down”, which, as I’ve before, is an effective tool in the toolbox, but not when you’re Randy Orton who doesn’t seem to own any other tools and tried to use the one he has for everything. That metaphor got away from me there, but the point still stands.

That’s not to say there weren’t some pockets of good stuff, Kofi’s offence was a lot sharper than it was during their Summerslam encounter and the whole thing felt a lot more concise, which is probably thanks to there being an actual clean finish. This match was better than the match they had at Summerslam, but that was a pretty low bar to clear and I think I’m ready for Kofi to move on to someone new, which – if the clean finish to this match is any indication – is hopefully what we’re getting.

9 – Erick Rowan def. Roman Reigns
(No Disqualification)

I know I’m ranking this match third from bottom, but there’s a small part of me that kinda liked it.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to hate here and I’ll dig into that in a moment, but there were a couple of sections in the middle of this match where I was vaguely enjoying myself. I’m well known for hating weapons matches by this point (looking forward to Hell in a Cell next month…) but there were some sequences in this match where I was enjoying watching these guys try to destroy each other.

I don’t think this was the best of showcases for Rowan however, he’s never excelled in long singles matches but I think Roman did a decent job of picking up the slack. That said, this match could only ever reach a certain level of quality and that wasn’t exceedingly high. Then there was the finish, which saw the return of Harper, who we’re still unsure on whether he’s got his first name back or not.

After all the shit he’s supposedly gone through with WWE management and Vince seemingly having a hate boner for the guy, I’m happy he’s finally back on TV, however, I’m not happy that he’s being paired up with Rowan for the 50th time. This pairing is so odd because they’ve never really done much as a team and yet it feels like they’ve already done everything there is for them to do. I don’t think it’s the right move for either of them to keep them joined at the hip like this, but that’s what we’ve got.

8 – Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross(c) def. Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville
(Women’s Tag Team Championships)

Now we get into that stage of the rankings where the matches were perfectly fine, but nothing noteworthy.

I actually thought these two teams worked quite well together, the crowd were really behind Nikki Cross which is great to see and Alexa continues to surprise me by being a pretty effective face wrestler. Mandy’s always great at pulling heat from thin air, although I often find myself rooting for her by association because I love Sonya Deville as a wrestler.

This match was very much split into two halves, with the 24/7 skit serving as the separation point. The first half of this match was great fun to watch, they went through this lengthy feeling out process where every combination of competitors in the match was explored and I thought it was really effective, then the 24/7 title stuff happened and I quite liked it, it broke up the match (which was starting to slow down a bit) and we got a nice little thrill as Alexa attempted to roll up R-Truth.

The main problem is that after the skit, it never felt like the match quite recovered to the point it was at beforehand. Things remained pretty slow pretty much right up until the finish and it ended things on a bit of a duff note. Ultimately I can honestly say that I enjoyed the match, but it was a bit flawed in places.

7 – Shinsuke Nakamura(c) def. The Miz
(Intercontinental Championship)

I said in my predictions article that this would almost certainly be a fun, ten-minute match and unlike most things I say in my predictions, what I said is exactly what happened.

There’s not a whole lot to say about this one really, it was a good, but not great, match where both guys wrestled the kind of match we’d expect them to wrestle and then the champion retained. Sami’s stuff on the mic was good fun, mostly because it shut Corey Graves up for 5 seconds (more on that later) and I think this pairing of Sami & Shinsuke might actually work out quite well for the both of them.

My main worry is what’s going to happen with The Miz going forward because he’s been absolutely shafted since becoming a face. All I can hope for is that the draft puts Miz in a much better position going forward, hopefully in the form of a heel turn, because this face run has been a total failure.

6 – Seth Rollins(c) def. Braun Strowman
(Universal Championship)

So this was a weird one…

This ended up being one of the shorter matches of the evening at 11 minutes and I honestly think that was to its benefit. It played off the sense of urgency that was inherently woven into the match thanks to both Seth and Braun having already wrestled a match that night, although it didn’t make Seth look especially strong if you ask me.

The majority of the match was Braun throwing Seth all over the place and even when Seth did start to make his comeback, Braun was extremely resilient, kicking out of three Curb Stomps. This is all great for Braun, but it doesn’t exactly help Seth in any way. You could easily argue that Braun kicking out of three Curb Stomps makes him look great in defeat, but that’s all dependant on what happens with him after this and if it goes similarly to how he’s been booked this past year, it’s going to have the opposite effect. To me, it’s instead made the Curb Stomp – one of the most brutal-looking finishers in all of WWE – look piss-weak, especially when you consider that in the past, Braun as lost to a single F-5 or a single Spear.

That said, I thought the second half of the match where Seth was making his comeback was exciting to watch and much like many of these matches, I came away from it satisfied with what I saw, although I think it would’ve benefitted from another five minutes (although given both men had to wrestle twice, the shortness isn’t a dealbreaker.)

5 – AJ Styles(c) def. Cedric Alexander
(United States Championship)
(Kickoff Show)

Ok, let’s get the obvious out of the way, this made Cedric look like a grade-A chump. There’s no way that anyone watching this match could see Cedric get absolutely dominated AND attacked after the match and get the impression that he was someone to rally behind, so if the intention was to get Alexander more over then it was a total failure.

That said, when it comes to the match itself alone, I really enjoyed watching it. I would’ve liked to see it last longer than 5 minutes, but the way these two wrestled this match gave it such a sense of urgency that I couldn’t help but enjoy myself. The action was fast & fun and honestly, that’s what I like best from wrestling, I just wish it could’ve been a bit longer.

At the end of the day, I hope this isn’t the end of Cedric’s push because he could do so much more without even needing to be that high up the card, but in a bubble, I had fun watching this one.

4  – Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode(c) def. Seth Rollins & Braun Strowman
(Raw Tag Team Championships)

Seth Rollins is just great at tag matches.

This had a healthy dose of everything I love to see from tag team wrestling. There was good psychology with the heels working effectively against the faces, which helped to give the idea that Ziggler & Roode have actually been training together as a tag team prior to them being thrown together on Raw. Then, as Seth always does, he did a great job of slowly building up to make a comeback and Braun is the kind of guy that’s always great for a hot-tag.

As for Ziggler & Roode winning the titles, I can’t say that I’m thrilled about it and I expect them to have a reign similar to that of Gable & Roode where they do precisely nothing with the titles, however I admit the titles will probably do better around their waists than Seth & Braun’s, since they’d likely just end up being treated as second fiddle to the Universal title, like they have all of this past month.

3 – The Revival def. The New Day(c)
(Smackdown Tag Team Championships)

This match was great and I’ll talk about it in a moment, but we need to take a moment to talk about commentary last night, especially Corey Graves because it was freaking awful. I don’t know what got into Corey last night, but for some reason, he was determined to turn every single conversation on the desk into a shouting match and it was so irritating to listen to, actively detracting from my enjoyment of the match at certain points. Graves can be a great heel commentator, but for whatever reason, last night was one of the worst commentary performances I’ve heard in WWE in a long time; so much so that I watched the majority of this match on mute.

That aside, this match was great.

It wasn’t anywhere near the all-time great Revival vs New Day match we all know is possible, but it was a good start. It’s not often that Big E is the one to be beaten down and desperate, but seeing it in situations like this is so incredibly effective for the story being told. It was able to create this great sense of desperation as Woods came in on a nearly broken leg to try and get them back in the fight.

Ultimately, it was to no avail and The Revival won the titles, which is hopefully a good thing. With any luck, this will be the start of a feud akin to New Day vs The Usos in 2017 where they put on amazing tag team matches on every PPV for about 6 months straight and everyone is very happy about it. Regardless of if that actually happens or not, I’m never going to complain about The Revival winning tag team championships.

2 – Drew Gulak(c) def. Humberto Carrillo & Lince Dorado
(Cruiserweight Championship)
(Kickoff Show)

Once again, the cruiserweights care not for your petty “pre-shows”, they’ll steal the show regardless of when their match is.

This match was more or less how I described it would be in my predictions. Carrillo and Dorado put in some great fast-paced offence and the sequences when they were going at each other was really fun to watch, then Drew Gulak was there to quite literally ground everything and slow the match down, but in an effective, in-ring psychology way, not a boring, Randy Orton way.

This whole match was full to the brim with memorable moments, like Dorado and Carrillo taking Drew out early on in spectacular fashion, to the segment towards the end where the three men traded blows and Drew flattened Humberto with a clothesline. As I said before, Drew retaining was definitely the right choice for now, especially with 205 Live likely being folded into NXT very soon, he’s an all-round solid performer who can make that title feel like a big deal on the new NXT if that’s what happens to it.

1 – Sasha Banks def. Becky Lynch(c) via Disqualification
(Raw Women’s Championship)

A great performance with a botched landing.

The first 15ish minutes of this match was exactly the kind of match you’d expect from two great wrestlers who know each other as well as these two. The action was smooth and fun to watch, with a great amount of back and forth with some genuinely innovative spots, namely, when each woman was able to slip on their signature submission hold seemingly out of nowhere. It was crisp and fantastic stuff that’s hopefully just a taste of what’s to come.

I’m of two minds with the finish, I like the idea of it and ultimately I think it was successful in portraying what it was intended to, however, the execution was a bit odd. Sasha pulled off some great heel-work with the chair shots and I loved the brawl around the arena, even if I just couldn’t take my eyes off of the mustard stain on Sasha’s back. What I found odd, was the way they went about the DQ. I’m fine with Becky accidentally striking the referee with a chair, but there was no bell ring or announcement to say Becky was disqualified until they’d gone around the whole arena and Michael Cole just randomly mentioned it on commentary; only when Becky decided she had enough of beating Sasha down did the ring announcer explain that Becky had been DQ’ed.

It left me with a  bit of a sour taste in my mouth because I was under the impression that the match was continuing because, you know, an unconscious referee can’t DQ anyone. That said, the whole situation did exactly what it was meant to and built up the intensity of this feud and I can’t wait for their inevitable Hell in a Cell match in a few weeks time.

Much like the show as a whole, this was a match that gave me some complaints but ultimately left me feeling satisfied and happy about what I’d just watched, which I consider a win.

So there are my thoughts! Thank you very much for taking the time to read my review and please let me know what you thought of the show either in the comments below or on Twitter @10ryawoo! Finally, make sure to come back this weekend where I’ll be talking about more of my favourite music from video games!

WWE Clash of Champions 2019: Predictions & Analysis

Am I the only one that feels like Summerslam was just a week ago? I don’t know why, but it feels like this PPV cycle has gone past really quickly, a feeling that was probably aided by having three major non-WWE wrestling shows a couple of weekends ago, which means that a lot of people are going to be drawing comparisons.

As it stands, I think this looks like a really good card. There’s a couple of matches that I don’t think will do anything special, but I can honestly say I’m looking forward to seeing most of these matches, which shouldn’t be as hot a take as that’ll probably be.

Regardless, there must be winners and I shall attempt to predict them.

Roman Reigns vs Erick Rowan
(No Disqualification)

This whole story has felt like creative have no idea what to do with Roman Reigns until October.

Given that the original plan (as far as we’re told by the dirt sheets) was Roman vs Daniel Bryan at Summerslam, it definitely feels like creative have had to suddenly find ways to extend the story another two months and this is what we’ve ended up with. Almost every week something new and weird will happen that entirely feels like it was thought up the day before the show (or maybe later if Vince keeps rewriting shows like we’re told he does) and now we’re left with this match which feels largely pointless.

If this is a sincere attempt to try and put a bigger spotlight on Erick Rowan and make him a bigger star then I’m all for it, but I highly doubt that’s what this is. I know Rowan attacked Bryan and disavowed him on Smackdown, but this whole thing still feels like a master plan by Bryan to absolve himself of the crime and it’s only a matter of weeks until he’s revealed as the true culprit. I’d be happy to be proved wrong on that, but as it stands this match just feels like a stop-gap en route to the real money match in Roman vs Bryan.

I don’t think anyone would disagree with me when I say Roman Reigns is winning this. I can’t see what the plan is for Reigns past this feud with Bryan, but the upcoming draft could throw anything I say up in air regardless.

Drew Gulak(c) vs Humberto Carrillo vs Lince Dorado
(Cruiserweight Championship)

This entire year on 205 Live it’s seemed like just a matter of time until Humberto wins the Cruiserweight Championship and Gulak is the best person for him to win it from to complete the story, but I’m not sure tonight is the night.

As much as he’s spent most of this year being built up, Humberto hasn’t had any major wins against big stars of the division, especially not recently. His story lost a bit of steam going into the summer and now it’s being recovered out of nowhere and it doesn’t quite sit right with me. If this were still a one on one match then I would’ve been tempted to pick Humberto regardless, but then Lince Dorado was added and things became a lot clearer for me.

Like any Cruiserweight title match, especially multi-man ones, this is going to be great fun to watch, regardless of where it gets dropped on the card. Dorado and Carrillo are very exciting to watch and are great at the fast-paced action and as Gulak is perfect in the role of taking choice opportunities and occasionally slowing the match down for a greater impact, so I’m looking forward to seeing this one play out.

That said, I’m confident that Drew Gulak is going to retain the title here, probably by submitting Lince Dorado. As I’ve said, it’s only a matter of time until Humberto Carrillo wins the title from Gulak, but giving him a good looking defeat, where he doesn’t take the fall, might be a good way to get his story going again.

Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross vs Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville
(Women’s Tag Team Championships)

The thing with this match is that I love all four of these wrestlers and it’ll probably be a fairly entertaining match, but I’m just not even slightly excited to see this match. That may in part be down to the fact that we’ve already seen it on Smackdown a couple of weeks ago, but I think the main reason is how crappy the women’s tag team titles have been treated since being taken off of Sasha & Bayley back in April. I know things are getting better but over 4 months of shoddy treatment isn’t going to be wiped away so quickly.

Plus, you could argue the shoddy treatment isn’t going to end anytime soon. Granted, any title that Alexa Bliss holds stands to get at least some level of credible treatment, but I honestly think that the only reason this match is even on the show is because of the “all titles will be defended” gimmick of this PPV.

As such, it makes this one quite easy to pick. Rose & Deville have already got a win over Bliss & Cross in a non-title match which means they haven’t got a chance of winning the titles here. Not to mention that a quick title change like this wouldn’t do any favours for titles that are looking to regain credibility. I’m an extremely big Sonya Deville fan so it pains me to say this, but Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross are walking out of this one with the titles.

Shinsuke Nakamura(c) vs The Miz
(Intercontinental Championship)

The Miz should always be a heel.

Don’t get me wrong, when he first turned against Shane McMahon it was great, he was getting consistent TV time and cutting fantastic promos while putting on great matches every week, but once he stopped feuding with Shane, all of that stopped. When Miz gets a chance to be on TV he tends to put on a great show, but those opportunities have been few and far between recently, it feels like creative don’t know how to book The Miz as a face and I can’t say I blame them, he’s a character that’s so perfect as a heel it’s hard to think of him any other way.

As long as this isn’t a squash match then I think it’ll be a fun watch. I’m not optimistic about the amount of time it’s going to get and it’ll almost certainly end in interference from Sami Zayn because Zayn & Nakamura is a pairing now which…ok I guess? But even if we don’t get a very long match, what little we get should be enjoyable.

I went back and forth on picking the winner for this one a little bit because, on one hand, there’s the fact that Miz is very close to topping Chris Jericho’s record with the Intercontinental Championship and given recent events, I’d imagine WWE would quite like to do just that. However, in the end, I’ve decided to go with Shinsuke Nakamura to retain instead because there’s absolutely nothing worthwhile in The Miz as Intercontinental Champion right now, I’d much rather it stay on Nakamura so this story with Sami Zayn has a chance of actually going somewhere.

AJ Styles(c) vs Cedric Alexander
(United States Championship)

Hm, well I guess there was always going to be one match that was made at the last possible minute.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure this is will be a great match if it gets more than 5 minutes on the show (which based on the number of matches, seems unlikely) but I just don’t have the capacity to care about a match that started being built 4 days ago. With any luck, this will end up being a big chance of Cedric Alexander on a big stage so people can start to properly get behind him, like with Ricochet.

Unfortunately, there’s almost no chance he’s winning here. As I said, this match had its entire build on Monday and this is one of those matches that wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the gimmick of this show being that every title would be defended. It’s possible that this title gets a shock change to balance out almost all of the other titles being retained, but Alexander wouldn’t hold the title for very long if that happened, so I’m playing it safe and sticking with AJ Styles to retain.

The New Day(c) vs The Revival
(Smackdown Tag Team Championships)

Well there you go, all it took for The Revival to be taken seriously is a tenuous link with Randy Orton that will be broken the moment Orton & Kofi’s story demands it.

As this story has been entirely intertwined with Kofi & Orton’s, it’s hard to say anything unique about it. It’s nice to see The Revival being treated as a threat but it’s going to end as soon as they lose here and Orton dumps them, then there’s The New Day who are great, but I honestly forgot they were tag champs until seeing the card for this show.

That said, when it comes to tag team wrestling, these are two of the best in the WWE, so this could be a killer match, even if it only does get ten minutes in the end. As I not so subtly hinted at above, I’m picking The New Day to retain. I just don’t see a reason to take the title off of The New Day so soon and ultimately I think the titles themselves will see a lot better treatment around their waists.

Seth Rollins & Braun Strowman(c) vs Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode
(Raw Tag Team Championships)

Nevermind going back in time and telling someone about this match, I’m still not entirely sure I believe it’s happening in the present. This has been a weird month.

So in the space of a month, not only have a random two competitors been put together as a tag team to win the titles, but another random two competitors have been put together in a tag team, beat EVERY OTHER tag team on Raw to get a title match. Then on top of that, you realise that the champions are fighting each other for a different title later on in the show and the whole title reign has essentially served that purpose and you realise how non-existant the tag team division in WWE is.

On paper, this match looks like it’d be great, but the fact of the matter is, this whole match is going to serve the Universal title match later on the show and nothing more. I know Braun keeps reaffirming how he’s determined to retain the tag titles, but that’s bullshit and I fully expect him to refuse to tag in for long portions of the match so Seth can get beaten up.

Funnily enough, though, I’m honestly not sure who’s going to win, purely because there’s absolutely nothing to be gained from Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode as tag team champions for just so many reasons. So beyond all logic, I’m picking Seth Rollins & Braun Strowman to retain and probably take a leak on them next Monday before vacating them.

Bayley(c) vs Charlotte Flair
(Smackdown Women’s Championship)

Oh look, I’ve picked every champion to retain so far, that’s interesting. So who’s up next? Charlotte Flair, you say? Oh dear.

If you had asked me to pick this one when it was first announced, I would’ve picked Charlotte without even needing to think about it, but a surprising amount has changed since then. Charlotte’s alignment is a bit up in the air, but she still seems to be showing heelish tendencies, the main issue is that Bayley is now a heel, which is something I really didn’t see coming but is probably a brilliant move.

I’m not the biggest fan of keeping Bayley joined at the hip to Sasha Banks, but in this particular instance, I think it could benefit here greatly since Bayley really hasn’t done anything interesting as Smackdown Women’s Champion outside of the moment she won it. It’s also created a very interesting scenario where all of the 4 horsewomen are fighting for titles, I’ve no idea if that’ll lead anywhere but it’s a very nice thing to think about.

Needless to say, this match will be great. Admittedly we don’t know how Bayley works as a heel but I can’t imagine it’ll be much different from how she normally wrestles. On top of that, Bayley & Charlotte have always had great in-ring chemistry and I’m really looking forward to watching this match play out. As for a winner, it’s a tough call because I’m fully expecting a dirt finish as I don’t see Charlotte losing clean here at all, but if this heel turn is going to be worthwhile, Bayley needs to make something of it, so she’s who I’m going with, likely with an assist from a steel chair.

Kofi Kingston(c) vs Randy Orton
(WWE Championship)

In my Summerslam predictions, I talked about the match between these two very excited and optimistically. This is not going to be like that entry.

To put it simply their match at Summerslam was awful and it’s completely killed any investment I had in this storyline. Not to mention, the storyline itself seems to have stagnated on Smackdown this past month, with things going no further than “they beat each other up every week” which can be very effective if done well, but this has been done in a way that just makes it seem lazy more than anything.

There’s a tiny part of me that is holding out hope that this match will be what I wanted from their Summerslam encounter, but that part grows smaller and smaller by the day. It’s entirely likely that this match will involve shenanigans from New Day and The Revival, partly because that’s what this whole story has focused on, but also because Hell in a Cell is next month and they need to justify it by saying it’ll keep out everyone else.

Since I don’t think this is the end of the story, Kofi should be an easy pick to retain, but I’ve picked every title to be retained so far and I could easily see Orton swiping the title, if only for a month before Kofi gets it back, especially with Smackdown moving to FOX just before Hell in a Cell next month. It’s a tough one, but the more I think about it, the more risky picking Orton seems, so yet again I’m going with Kofi Kingston to retain.

Becky Lynch(c) vs Sasha Banks
(Raw Women’s Championship)

Oh boy, I’m so ready.

I’m really excited for this match, Becky Lynch’s character has recovered from months upon months of Lacey Evans and she feels like a big deal again and Sasha is riding this big wave of momentum from her return which has hopefully revitalised her energy towards wrestling. The writing between these two has really been killing it, Sasha’s always felt more natural as a heel and the back and forth between the two of them has been really great stuff, and that’s not even counting the added twist of Bayley’s heel turn.

As we’ve seen in NXT, the in-ring chemistry between these two is as good as you’d expect it to be and this match should be a shoe-in for match of the night. There’s so much potential for where this story could go in the coming months and a really good match here will be the perfect launching platform for all of it.

That brings us to the matter of picking a winner and I’ve already said that I think this is the first in a long series, which would imply that the champion retains here but I think this case is different. Sasha Banks is riding such a huge wave of momentum and has got a brand new lease of life on her character, so I just can’t bet against her here and I think she’s going to pick up the title.

Seth Rollins(c) vs Braun Strowman
(Universal Championship)

So this is going to be what all of Seth’s feuds are from here on out aren’t they?

Much like with the build to Seth vs Brock at Summerslam, I’ve not enjoyed the week to week build for this match, but I remain hopeful that the match itself will be enjoyable. Carrying on from my earlier predictions, I think Seth will be coming into this match on the back foot after Strowman lets him take a beating in their tag match earlier in the night (it wouldn’t surprise me if they did them back to back) and the main story of the match is Strowman absolutely dominating Rollins and Rollins trying to create openings to sneak in offence and turn the tide, much like his match with Lesnar.

These two seem like they should have good in-ring chemistry, as Seth always has with guys twice his size. On top of that, you have to remember that, as much as he hasn’t done much exciting over the past year or so, Braun can be a really fun wrestler to watch under the right circumstances and with any luck, this match will serve to remind people of that fact and bolster his popularity once again.

Ultimately, when it comes down to it, I’m not struggling at all to pick the winner here, Seth Rollins is retaining his title. Bray Wyatt has already announced he’s fighting the winner of this match next month and as much as there is some good story potential in Bray vs Braun, the money match is definitely Seth vs Bray. Not to mention the fact that Seth’s only just got the title back and became the first person since Goldberg to hand Lesnar a clean loss in the process, so it wouldn’t be the best decision to have him lose the title again this soon.

And that’s it! Thank you very much for taking the time to read this, let me know what you think is going to happen either in the comments below or on Twitter @10ryawoo. Finally, make sure to come back early next week for my review of the show!