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When and where? Saturday, August 22 at 7pm EST on WWE Network (kickoff show at 6pm) Singles match Adam Cole vs. Pat McAfee Yes, the former NFL punter. it would be easy to assume Adam Cole gets the easy win here, but...Whenever the WWE has "Wrestler vs. celebrity" type matches, the celebrity is the one who comes out on top the majority of the time. I don't know how, or who else will be involved...but Pat McAfee will somehow, inexplicably, end up on top in this match. Winner: Pat McAfee NXT Women's Championship Io Shirai (c) vs. Dakota Kai Io Shirai is a better wrestler than Dakota Kai is, plain and simple. However, with Kairi Sane deciding to return to Japan to be with her family, moving Io Shirai over to RAW soon to reform the Kabuki Warriors with Asuka seems like a natural storyline just waiting for the proper time to happen...but in order to move her to the main roster, she has to drop the belt. Winner: Dakota Kai NXT North American Championship (5-Man Ladder match) Bronson Reed vs. Damian Priest vs. Cameron Grimes vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Velveteen Dream If it weren't for the controversy surrounding Velveteen Dream right now, I'd say he wins this...but, well...given what he has been accused of doing, no way the WWE puts the strap on him. This could realistically be won by any of the four remaining wrestlers in the match, but if I had to pick one, it would be Johnny Gargano. Winner: Johnny Gargano Singles Match Finn Balor vs. Timothy Thatcher I don't even need to describe this match to predict the winner here... Winner: Finn Balor Triple Threat Tag Team Match for NXT Tag Team #1 Contendership Breezango (Fandango/Tyler Breeze) vs. Oney Lorcan/Danny Burch vs. Legado Del Fantasma (Joaquin Wilde/Raul Mendoza) Fandango and Tyler Breeze HAVE to be rewarded at some point for moving off the main roster down to NXT, so why not now? They can't stay jobbers forever. Winners: Breezango NXT Championship Keith Lee (c) vs. Karrion Kross Keith Lee is going to get called up to the main roster soon. But not quite yet. As such, no way he drops the title to Karrion Kross. He's the biggest star on the entire NXT roster, he isn't dropping the NXT Championship until the WWE decides it's time to call him up...my best guess is that January's Royal Rumble event will likely be his call up...He's keeping the belt until then. Winner: Keith Lee When and Where? Sunday, August 23rd at 7pm EST on WWE Network (Kickoff show at 6pm) WWE RAW Tag Team Championship Street Profits (c) vs. Andrade/Angel Garza The WWE has been teasing tensions between both Andrade and Garza with their manager, Zelina Vega. I suspect that their team is about to break up, with one of them turning face in the near future. As such, I expect them to not win the titles here. Winners: Street Profits WWE Championship Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Randy Orton Randy Orton is performing both in the ring and on the mic at a level he hasn't been at in years. I have mentioned in previous reviews that I think the WWE will give him one last title run...That title run starts this Sunday, and will last probably until Wrestlemania. Winner: Randy Orton WWE United States Championship (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin banned from ringside) Apollo Crews (c) vs. MVP Part of me thinks that MVP has a secret member of his Hurt Business faction, and that they will interfere in the match on MVP's behalf...but that would probably mean that MVP wins...I don't think MVP wins though. He is just an old-timer nostalgia act, I can't see them giving him an actual meaningful belt. Winner: Apollo Crews Street Fight (Basically, anything goes) Seth Rollins vs. Dominik Mysterio Seth Rollins is the overwhelming favorite...which is exactly why he will lose. If this is going to be Dominik's debut match in the WWE, if they have ANY hopes of him carrying on his father's legacy, then they have to book this as Dominik being WAY better than they've let on so far. He is a fully trained wrestler, and he will be in the WWE for a long time. Rumor has it that he even already has a new name waiting to be used...Prince Mysterio. The WWE is going to go all out to establish Rey's successor as a bonafide star. Winner: Dominik Mysterio WWE Raw Women's Championship WWE Smackdown Women's Championship Sasha Banks (c) vs. Asuka Bayley (c) vs. Asuka Technically, these are two separate matches. That is, Asuka has to wrestle twice on Sunday. I am combining them here, because I think these are really two halves of a single story being told. Both my wife and I suspect that the team of Bayley and Banks is going to break up, due to a betrayal. Either Bayley will screw Sasha somehow in the RAW title match, or Sasha Banks will screw Bayley somehow in the Smackdown title match, "totally accidentally". Basically, we both suspect that Asuka is probably going to get screwed out of one of the titles, but end up winning the other. Then, probably at the next PPV, Payback, which conveniently is only like a week after Summerslam, wouldn't you know...Bayley and Sasha are already booked to defend their WWE Women's Tag Team titles against opponents TBD. Anyone wanna bet it's gonna be against Asuka and a freshly called up Io Shirai from NXT? Winner(s): Asuka, either Sasha Banks or Bayley, but not both. WWE Universal Championship Braun Strowman (c) vs. Bray Wyatt Honestly? I don't have the slightest idea who is going to win this match, I am not even really leaning in one direction or another. I can legit see either man winning this...I expect this to be a very violent, power based match, with very little technical wrestling involved. My wife is convinced that Alexa Bliss will be involved in this match. As you may recall, she has been placed in this storyline starting with the swamp match between Wyatt and Strowman last PPV, and it's not exactly clear yet what her role is. Is she really Sister Abigail, and ultimately loyal to Bray Wyatt/The Fiend, or do her loyalties remain with her mixed-tag team partner Braun Strowman? Alexa very well could be the deciding factor in this match...but for which wrestler? Winner: Hell if I know...Umm, a draw or no-contest maybe? Hair vs. Hair Match Mandy Rose vs. Sonya Deville I don't remember EVER seeing a face lose a hair vs. hair type match. The entire purpose of a hair vs. hair match is to teach the heel a lesson, to humiliate them in the middle of the ring for being a dastardly heel... Winner: Mandy Rose, then look for Otis to come out and help hold Sonya down while Mandy cuts her hair off.
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