10 Last-Minute WWE Battleground 2017 Rumours You Need To Know
1. Jinder Mahal Retains WWE Championship
By now, it's likely that just about every fan of WWE SmackDown has seen enough of the feud between Jinder Mahal and Randy Orton. It's been going on for nearly three months, and the two men have yet to deliver an above-average match. Odds are that the Punjabi Prison bout at Battleground won't be the one to change everybody's mind.
The good news is that the Orton-Mahal program will finally be over after Battleground, when Mahal defeats "The Viper" once and for all. It won't be clean and it won't be pretty, but the WWE Champion will emerge victorious. As questionable as putting the title on Mahal has been, he's barely even gotten a chance to run with it yet, and there's little more boring to imagine than yet another championship run for Orton.
Mahal is rumored to be feuding with John Cena leading to a SummerSlam match, so the wheels for that program can be set in motion when Mahal beats Orton. Regardless of what comes next, though, "The Maharaja" will retain the title at Battleground.