Who are the current champions in WWE?
Who do I think will beat them for the title?
WWE CHAMPIONSHIP
Current WWE Champion: Roman Reigns
Prediction for Next Champion: Cody Rhodes
Explanation: WrestleMania.
WWE UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Universal Champion: Roman Reigns
Prediction for Next Champion: Cody Rhodes
Explanation: WrestleMania.
RAW WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Raw Women's Champion: Bianca Belair
Prediction for Next Champion: Asuka??
Explanation: Hm. I just don't picture Asuka winning at WrestleMania, necessarily. It certainly could happen. The Empress of Tomorrow has held titles before. But this isn't striking me as a clear-cut "obviously, she'll beat Belair" situation. I'll put Asuka down for now, since she's the safe bet, but I don't even feel 50/50 confident in that. My eyes are going to be more on who ends up on Raw after the draft.
SMACKDOWN WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current SmackDown Women's Champion: Charlotte Flair
Prediction for Next Champion: Rhea Ripley
Explanation: WrestleMania
WWE INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Intercontinental Champion: Gunther
Prediction for Next Champion: Drew McIntyre, Sheamus or Bron Breakker
Explanation: Maybe Drew McIntyre or Sheamus takes it from him at WrestleMania in a Triple Threat match? I'm leaning much more toward Breakker, actually, but until he leaves NXT, that means I need to keep my focus on the main roster.
WWE UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP
Current United States Champion: Austin Theory
Prediction for Next Champion: Johnny Gargano
Explanation: That's what I would do, at least.
RAW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Raw Tag Team Champions: The Usos
Prediction for Next Champions: Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Explanation: WrestleMania.
SMACKDOWN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current SmackDown Tag Team Champions: The Usos
Prediction for Next Champions: Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
WWE WOMEN'S TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current Women's Tag Team Champions: Becky Lynch and Lita
Prediction for Next Champions: Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler
Explanation: WrestleMania.
NXT CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Champion: Bron Breakker
Prediction for Next Champions: Carmelo Hayes
Explanation: NXT Stand & Deliver.
NXT WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Women's Champion: Roxanne Perez
Prediction for Next Champion: Zoey Stark, Cora Jade or Tiffany Stratton
Explanation: I'm split between Stark, Jade and Stratton. If there's another fourth option, I think it would be a heel Nikkita Lyons. But more than likely, Lyons is the babyface who beats whoever beats Perez, instead, far down the line, due to her injury.
NXT NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Current North American Champion: Wes Lee
Prediction for Next Champion: Tony D'Angelo
Explanation: Somewhere down the line, I think this title has Charlie Dempsey written all over it. Now, as the immediate follow-up to Wes Lee, doesn't necessarily seem like the time. We'll see if Tony D'Angelo gets a title shot out of this Dijak situation. That's the next most logical choice. If not that, then maybe they will go back around to someone else like Dempsey.
NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Tag Team Champions: Gallus
Prediction for Next Champions: Indus Sher
Explanation: Gallus is treated as tweeners, it seems. Since they're bouncing back and forth between heel and face, either alignment could beat them. I could imagine they'd drop the belts to two big brutes like Sanga and Veer more than anyone else and will play babyface in that feud.
NXT WOMEN'S TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Current NXT Tag Team Champions: Fallon Henley and Kiana James
Prediction for Next Champions: Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn
Explanation: This might happen as soon as NXT Stand & Deliver.
NXT UNITED KINGDOM HERITAGE CUP
Current United Kingdom Heritage Cup Champion: Noam Dar
Prediction for Next Champions: n/a
Explanation: Strangely, this title wasn't set up for a unification with the NXT North American Championship at Worlds Collide. It wasn't addressed at all. Either that means WWE has other plans for it to continue on, or it is being retired and they figured it wasn't worth unifying it and haven't clarified that, nor informed the website team that still has it listed as an active belt counting the days Dar is champion.
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