Who are the current champions in WWE and who do I think will beat them?
WWE CHAMPION
Current: AJ Styles
Next: The Miz or Randy Orton
Explanation: Either The Miz wins at Crown Jewel or Survivor Series, or Randy Orton takes it at Survivor Series or TLC. Slight chance Styles keeps the belt into WrestleMania and drops it there to Daniel Bryan.
WWE UNIVERSAL CHAMPION
Current: Vacant
Next: No idea
Explanation: Reigns vacating the title is something I naturally didn't see coming. I have no idea where they're going from here. WWE probably doesn't, either. My go-to answer is Braun Strowman, but maybe they'll put the belt on Drew McIntyre? Maybe they'll give it to Bobby Lashley out of some weird "screw it, let's try that" mentality?
INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION
Current: Seth Rollins
Next: Drew McIntyre or Dean Ambrose
Explanation: Either McIntyre wins the title and they didn't want to pull the trigger on him turning on Ziggler, so that's why the belt went back to Rollins, or we have the split between Rollins/Ambrose with The Lunatic Fringe taking it along the road to WrestleMania 35.
UNITED STATES CHAMPION
Current: Shinsuke Nakamura
Next: Rusev
Explanation: No idea. I don't think WWE has a clue, either.
CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPION
Current: Buddy Murphy
Next: Mustafa Ali / Ricochet
Explanation: Mustafa Ali is my go-to pick as the next babyface in line for the title, but my gut is telling me Buddy Murphy might pass it to someone like Ricochet instead and Ali may have to wait.
RAW WOMEN'S CHAMPION
Current: Ronda Rousey
Next: Charlotte Flair
Explanation: WrestleMania.
SMACKDOWN WOMEN'S CHAMPION
Current: Becky Lynch
Next: Asuka
Explanation: This all depends on Survivor Series and WrestleMania. If we get The Four Horsewomen at either of those events, it dictates what happens with Becky Lynch. If Flair/Rousey is done at Survivor Series, I think Flair wins the title and goes into WrestleMania with it. If Flair/Rousey is WrestleMania, Flair kind of can't win the title, so Lynch either goes in as the champ or drops it ahead of time to someone else, and Asuka is the only one who could realistically take it, even if they haven't been giving her much momentum lately.
RAW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS
Current: The Shield
Next: The Authors of Pain
Explanation: Maybe sooner than we expected...
SMACKDOWN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS
Current: The Bar
Next: SAnitY
Explanation: Total shot in the dark.
NXT CHAMPION
Current: Tommaso Ciampa
Next: EC3 or Johnny Gargano
Explanation: I wonder if the Triple Threat match changed the plans to put the belt on Gargano at WarGames, or if that wasn't necessarily the plan to begin with. I don't think Aleister Black gets the title back from Ciampa, but it also kind of seems like Gargano vs. Ciampa MIGHT be over and done with, so that leaves me with EC3 as the only other option that I can imagine taking the title down the line. He's the next highest up babyface, unless they turn Velveteen Dream.
NXT WOMEN'S CHAMPION
Current: Kairi Sane
Next: Bianca Belair
Explanation: I did not see Sane beating Baszler coming at all, so now, I'm jumping ahead to my predictions that I didn't think I'd get to for months and months. I was expecting Baszler to drop it to LeRae, who would drop it to Belair, who would drop it to Sane. I guess not, so let's go with a bit of a reversal!
NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS
Current: The Undisputed Era
Next: War Raiders
Explanation: Okay, so I changed this all the other day for no reason. Neat. Got the prediction of it going back to Roderick Strong and Kyle O'Reilly correct, though, so yay for me. Let's resume where we left off before, with War Raiders being the ones to dethrone The Undisputed Era.
NXT NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION
Current: Ricochet
Next: Lars Sullivan
Explanation: I don't think Lars Sullivan is close to being called up to the main roster, nor do I think he's necessarily going to win the NXT Championship itself super soon. Instead, I can see them putting this belt on him in a story of how he's so much stronger than Ricochet can overcome.
UNITED KINGDOM CHAMPION
Current: Pete Dunne
Next: n/a
Explanation: I don't have the slightest idea.
UNITED KINGDOM WOMEN'S CHAMPION
Current: Rhea Ripley
Next: Toni Storm
Explanation: I'm expecting Io Shirai to win the Mae Young Classic and for Toni Storm to be the big babyface of the NXT UK scene, as it seems like Rhea Ripley is pretty much a heel. She's the next logical progression, unless they want to save her for something else down the line and go with a different babyface like Dakota Kai, then another heel, then Toni Storm.
UNITED KINGDOM TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS
Current: n/a
Next: Moustache Mountain or The Coffey Brothers
Explanation: It pretty much has to be one of these two teams, right?
