10 Early Wrestling Predictions For 2017

10. A Women's Match Will Headline A Pay Per View

This is something of a Vince Russo - a no-brainer.

There are so many Pay Per Views in this so-called "New Era" that this prediction is almost an inevitability. Given that WWE insists on giving away matches away for free on TV, eventually, they will run out of hooks.

If nothing else, it will provide them with an opportunity to augment their PR image. They will hype the hell out of it when it happens, and will promote themselves as much as the women who will contest it, positioning themselves at the forefront of the women's rights crusade - despite once awarding the Women's championship to Debra because everybody had already seen Sable's t*ts (literally, that was the storyline reason).

If this is all reading very cynical, then at least the women who do so will have earned the right. Their matches - particularly on the RAW brand - are all too often botched, but you can forgive the over-exuberance. Sasha Banks et al. have been given an unprecedented opportunity to excel, and even if they try too hard on occasion, their matches are often more exciting and literary in scope than their male counterparts.

Banks Vs. Bayley at a post-'Mania RAW brand PPV is a PR dream in waiting - a way of recapturing some mainstream buzz before SummerSlam.