Predicting all of the next champions in WWE

WWE Championship - Shinsuke Nakamura

Jinder Mahal is not going to come anywhere near the WWE Championship ever again. I think we can all agree upon that. Once he loses to AJ Styles next weekend at Clash of Champions, I would be surprised if he ever got another shot at the gold. It would not surprise me to see him eventually get the United States Title, but never the main prize.

That said, AJ Styles needs opponents. The rumour is that Shinsuke Nakamura is going to be the winner of the Royal Rumble coming up in January, and that WWE has been planning to do the AJ/Shinsuke match on a big platform ever since their electric confrontation in the Money in the Bank ladder match this past summer.

It wasn’t Nakamura’s time in the fall when he had his ill-fated feud with Mahal for the title, a feud that never should have happened in the first place. WrestleMania will be the 2-year anniversary of his NXT Takeover debut. He had a classic match with Sami Zayn that night in Dallas and I believe he is destined to have a classic with AJ Styles on April 8 in New Orleans.

Edited by Nishant Jayaram