Who are the current champions in WWE?
Who do I think will beat them for the title?
WWE CHAMPIONSHIP
Current WWE Champion: Drew McIntyre
Prediction for Next Champion: No idea
Explanation: Putting the title back on Drew McIntyre has me thinking Bray Wyatt is the next champion, but he may also be babyface in their minds. As far as heels go, I don't think Sheamus will necessarily be the one to win the title, but he could.
WWE UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Universal Champion: Roman Reigns
Prediction for Next Champion: Nobody until at least WrestleMania, if not well past that point.
Explanation: I doubt Otis is winning this. Frankly, I don't think WWE has any plans to take the title off Reigns until at least WrestleMania 37, but even that may be a stretch. Brock Lesnar is a possibility. The Rock could do it, if he's up for wrestling. Goldberg could win the title, but I think he'd likely just lose the match, instead.
RAW WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Raw Women's Champion: Asuka
Prediction for Next Champion: Charlotte Flair
Explanation: Please give the belt to Shayna and not Nia Jax or Charlotte Flair. Please? It's probably going to be Flair. I should change this to Flair, shouldn't I? Okay. I changed it. If that does happen and Flair wins it from Asuka, I hope the game plan is to have Rhea Ripley win the Royal Rumble and beat Flair for the belt at WrestleMania to offset her loss from 36.
SMACKDOWN WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current SmackDown Women's Champion: Sasha Banks
Prediction for Next Champion: Bianca Belair
Explanation: If Belair doesn't win the title, who else will? Bayley again? How pointless would that be?
WWE INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Intercontinental Champion: Big E
Prediction for Next Champion: Lars Sullivan or King Corbin
Explanation: If Lars Sullivan returns, I can see them putting the belt on him so he avoids going higher on the card and fighting Roman Reigns. If not, King Corbin's the next best bet.
WWE UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP
Current United States Champion: Bobby Lashley
Prediction for Next Champion: Keith Lee
Explanation: There's a chance Matt Riddle or Jeff Hardy wins it, but I'm leaning toward Lee and I hope he takes the belt instead.
RAW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Raw Tag Team Champions: The Hurt Business
Prediction for Next Champions: No idea.
Explanation: It won't be RETRIBUTION. We can pretty much count on that. But there aren't any babyface teams on Raw right now that I think make sense to take these titles down the line.
SMACKDOWN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current SmackDown Tag Team Champions: Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode
Prediction for Next Champions: The Street Profits
Explanation: I didn't think Ziggler and Roode would win the titles, so what do I know, right? But I'd imagine The Street Profits win the belts back since there aren't any other worthwhile babyface tag teams on SmackDown right now.
WWE WOMEN'S TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Women's Tag Team Champions: Asuka and Charlotte Flair
Prediction for Next Champions: The Riott Squad?
Explanation: Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler can win them back. The Riott Squad could step in. But really, what other teams are there?
WWE 24/7 CHAMPIONSHIP
Current 24/7 Champion: R-Truth
Prediction for Next Champion: n/a
Explanation: By its sheer nature, WWE will literally do completely random things with this title at completely random moments and none of it will mean absolutely anything. That means there's ZERO point in trying to predict who the next champion will be. The general rule of thumb, though, is that if it's not currently on R-Truth, he'll probably be the next champion or the one after that.
NXT CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Champion: Finn Balor
Prediction for Next Champions: Karrion Kross
Explanation: I'd assume the current game plan is to have Balor hold the title until Karrion Kross is back from injury and can win it and resume the title reign he never had a chance to run with.
NXT WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Women's Champion: Io Shirai
Prediction for Next Champion: Ember Moon or Toni Storm
Explanation: I'd lean more toward Toni Storm than Ember Moon.
NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Tag Team Champions: Brit-Am Brawlers
Prediction for Next Champions: The Undisputed ERA
Explanation: Wow. I didn't think Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan would turn heel and win these belts. Good for them. There goes my Legado del Fantasma pick. Now, we're in the need for a babyface team to beat Lorcan and Burch. That could be The Undisputed ERA and it wouldn't be shocking, so I'll go with them. However, maybe this is the direction Drake Maverick and Killian Dain go down.
NXT NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Current North American Champion: Johnny Gargano
Prediction for Next Champion: Bronson Reed
Explanation: Total shot in the dark. Maybe it goes to Kyle O'Reilly. Maybe it goes to Kushida. Maybe Jake Atlas. Who knows?
NXT CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Cruiserweight Champion: Jordan Devlin / Santos Escobar (interim)
Prediction for Next Champion: Kushida
Explanation: Is Fantasma the champion or the interim champion? What's up with Devlin? I don't know how they'll address that, but they could just keep it on Escobar and have him drop it to someone like Kushida down the line.
NXT UNITED KINGDOM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current United Kingdom Champion: WALTER
Prediction for Next Champion: Ilja Dragunov
Explanation: I don't entirely have faith Dragunov will be the one to dethrone WALTER, but he's the best bet at the moment, at least.
NXT UNITED KINGDOM WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current United Kingdom Women's Champion: Kay Lee Ray
Prediction for Next Champion: Aoife Valkyrie
Explanation: Piper Niven lost like 5 title shots. Even though she was the most viable choice, they decided not to go with her; clearly. Valkyrie is the only other one I can imagine takes the belt from KLR then.
NXT UNITED KINGDOM TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current United Kingdom Tag Team Champions: Gallus
Prediction for Next Champions: Imperium
Explanation: Imperium is the top team. There's no reason why they shouldn't be the next champions.
NXT UNITED KINGDOM HERITAGE CUP
Current United Kingdom Heritage Cup Champion: A-Kid
Prediction for Next Champions: Noam Dar or Alexander Wolfe
Explanation: Dar should have won the cup to begin with, I think. If they're treating this like a midcard title, I can't imagine there's a better option than he, unless they give the tag titles to Aichner and Barthel and then give this to Wolfe so Imperium has all the gold.
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