7 WWE Extreme Rules 2020 Results Predictions
Will the Horror Show live up to its name?
Not since the dearly missed Great Balls of Fire have WWE christened a pay-per-view so appropriately. This Sunday's Extreme Rules, despite taking place during the height of summer, has been subtitled 'the Horror Show'. This is entirely out of keeping with a predictable company, who, slavishly following tropes, would otherwise have pegged this an Octoberfest.
Maybe like AEW, who hosted Bash at the Beach in winter, they've been had by a misprinted calendar. Or maybe, although unlikely, it's a case of pointed self-awareness towards a card which promises to be somewhat ghastly for all the wrong reasons.
In one of the marquee matches, Seth Rollins and Rey Mysterio will try to out-opt one another. We'd like to opt out from that one.
Jakes Roberts was the last man to lose an eye in WWE, and appropriately enough, snakes are involved in another of the night's big matches, as Bray Wyatt confronts Braun Strowman in an actual swamp. We hear alligators are involved too. If this becomes a thing, we could yet see a Snakes and Ladders match at TLC.
And most ludicrous of all, Dolph Ziggler faces Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. Dolph Ziggler.
If we can make one prediction, it's that the Horror Show will live up to its name.
7. Bayley Crosses The Bayou
Although Nikki Cross has ticked all the right boxes over this year, it's testament to WWE's endemic inability to create credible title challengers across the board that her tilt at Bayley's well-held SmackDown Women's Championship was the result of a patched together Fatal Four Way.
The hugger turned smugger has been indomitable with the blue belt, keeping it firmly in her grasp for all but five of the last 427 days. It might be moving slower than Braun Strowman in a swamp to the extent it now seems unlikely to ever happen, like an Undertaker vs. Sting WrestleMania match or a Newcastle United takeover, but Bayley vs. Sasha is clearly the final destination for the incumbent's run with the belt.
Only a desire to randomly mix things up - in a misplaced hope that 'Nikki Cross: New Champion' might arrest SmackDown's horrific ratings slump - will see Bayley walk out of Extreme Rules a loser.
Prediction: Bayley