10 Big WWE Predictions For The Road To WrestleMania 37
Can Drew McIntyre's WWE Title run last until 'Mania? And who will Edge and Bianca Belair choose?
With the Royal Rumble done, Elimination Chamber almost done, and Fastlane essentially a typo on the roadmap, we have entered the most heavily-marketed period on WWE's annual calendar.
It's the Road to WrestleMania 37. We're already on it, and it doesn't stop until we hit Tampa, where 25,000-30,000 screaming fans (and as many NFL-inspired cardboard cutouts) hopefully await on 10 and 11 April. This, like anything else requiring a degree of planning on 2021, is dependent on the global health crisis' enduring fluidity. Super Bowl LV turning out to be a superspreader event could rob 'Mania of its atmosphere as quickly as a positive test result pulled Drew McIntyre off the weekly schedule last month.
Fingers crossed that doesn't happen. Providing it can be done safely, the noise returning after wrestling's year of silence makes this the most hotly anticipated 'Mania in years.
The circumstances make it difficult for WWE to plan anything at the moment and the world will surely throw a few spanners in the works between now and then. Any of the predictions within could change in an instant. Until then, here's how the journey to 37 looks set to play out...
10. Bianca Belair Chooses Sasha Banks
Though Bianca Belair says she hasn't made up her mind on which title to challenge for at WrestleMania 37, positioning her opposite Sasha Banks should be the easiest match WWE makes all year - and they will do it as soon as Belair is ready to make her intentions known.
Wrestling Asuka or Charlotte Flair for the red belt would be a good match. Would it be Banks vs. Belair good, though? Probably not. This is it. This is the one. This is your match of the night.
The list of WWE wrestlers on a better run than Banks over the past 12 months doesn't exist. She's an elite pro wrestler in every regard. Against Bayley, she proved herself a legitimate television draw and a box office storyline with a similarly great competitor, and her rivalry with Carmella shows her capability in elevating performers who aren't regarded as highly. At 'Mania, opposite Belair, she has the chance to aid a potential star in the making in her next step up the ladder.
Banks is fantastic, Belair is fantastic, this pairing is fantastic.