10 HUGE WWE Super ShowDown 2020 Predictions You Need To Know
All Change.
It's that time of year again.
Only, it's not, is it? A Saudi Arabia supershow hasn't yet been a speed bump on the vaunted Road To WrestleMania, but then the Sports Authority can do whatever they want as long as they remain paymasters of a company never more welcoming of the wealth.
Crown Jewel 2019 was the biggest success story for the scheme so far - the fans in the venue responded with great joy for the product served to them, weird old rich fellas on sofas were kept on the other side of the hard camera, young girls seemed genuinely moved by the Natalya/Lacey Evans match even if Michael Cole and Corey Graves almost ruined it with their own laboured emotional response, and home country star Mansoor continued his march to possible glory by the end of this deal with a powerful singles win over Cesaro.
The whole thing bordered on feeling...good, which was a remarkable turnaround from the disgusting events just one year prior. Then, just as the company concluded their cleanest ever sportswash, the whole roster got stuck in the country due to a-still-not-fully-disclosed disagreement between the SA and Vince McMahon or weather or some other bullsh*t that could well happen again this week.
John Cena's booked for Friday's SmackDown just in case, but what of the rest of the risk-takers on this relatively understated effort?
10. Roman Reigns Vs. King Corbin
A billion dollars.
Your semi-regular reminder that Fox paid a billion dollars for the rights to SmackDown, and with it a seemingly endless cycle of Roman Reigns/King Corbin matches and promos that have almost all somehow had something to do with 'The Big Dog' having canine connotations in his company-imposed nickname. All from the c*nt in the crown.
The matches have ranged from average-to-okay, but even then, Reigns and Corbin have usually relied on smoke and mirrors (and dog food) rather than any sort of believable brutality or hatred. A steel cage was once the haven for such violence, but is now little more than a contrivance - a failed sales pitch of a feud-ender because there was a pay-per-view to fill and WWE weren't yet ready to reveal what they had planned for either man at WrestleMania.
Roman wins of course, as if he hadn't already at the Royal Rumble and again alongside The Usos on television. This had burned out a month ago, even if the flaming fiery pyro they'll afford Reign after the fact will almost make the whole dull dud worth it.
Winner - Roman Reigns