10 BOLD Predictions For WWE In 2020

5. At WrestleMania, Triple H Will Face...

Bust-Up Triple H Vince McMahon
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…Kevin Owens.

Triple H will wrestle at WrestleMania. He always wrestles at WrestleMania. He always wrestles a major star (Batista) or the biggest emerging main event star (Roman Reigns, Daniel Bryan) at WrestleMania. Hell, at Survivor Series 2017, he built three WrestleMania matches—against Braun Strowman, Kurt Angle, and Shane McMahon—and somehow conspired to work a spot with a woman, possibly the most famous woman, in defiance of Mattel’s inter-gender no-no policy.

He is the f*cking Game, and Kevin Owens is about the only f*cking babyface that generates buzz and a reaction.

There is a strange, retconned history WWE can revisit to build the programme, what with Triple H handing Owens the Universal Title and teasing—and then immediately dropping—a new, Evolution-esque stable in 2016 and 2017.

The Rock isn’t coming back this year. The Undertaker Vs. Triple H IV: The Last Time Ever For Reals This Time is beyond parody, even for WWE, probably. He wrestled Randy Orton this year. Daniel Bryan has the agency to shut down such an uninspiring idea. AJ Styles isn’t a remote possibility, but he’s not as hot as Owens. Braun Strowman has cooled off significantly, and Triple H isn’t in the business of risking a match without heat, even if that has literally happened three times in the last four years and for most of recorded history.

Owens it is! Triple H threw the pie!

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