8 HUGE WWE Clash Of Champions 2017 Predictions You Need To Know

2. Barge Mahal

Few retrospectives on 2017 would be complete without a pause for thought on the Jinder Mahal experiment. Remember? It was an ultimately failed bid from WWE to elevate a lower card talent from absolutely nothing and make a globally recognised megastar. Simple, right?

There's been lots unpacked about the intriguing idea not quite taking flight since he lost his WWE Title to AJ Styles back in November, but the fact that the defeat against 'The Phenomenal One' was by far his best match brought the most inconvenient truth into full view - Mahal might have sported the belt, but he never became a Champion.

Matches against Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura were the pits, some of the worst of the year in fact, and while most of his promos were too boring to recollect, the ones that lingered in the memory only did so like a bad racist smell.

In AJ Styles, WWE have just about the exact opposite of the Mahal package. Smaller in stature and height with an experienced delivery style on the microphone as a heel or a babyface, Styles also has the crutch of being the best wrestler in the entire company to lean on.

Traditionally, the company relish the chance to have heels go into WrestleMania (and thus, the road to it) as WWE Champion, but surely they won't return to the scene of the year's biggest crime? Will they? WILL THEY??