10 Things That Must Happen Now WWE Royal Rumble 2017 Is Over

2. Randy Orton Turns On Bray Wyatt

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Of course, once Bray Wyatt becomes WWE Champion, there'll only be one more step toward building his match with Randy Orton - Orton will have to turn on the leader of The Wyatt Family.

Ever since Orton joined the Wyatts (with a lame excuse of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em") it's been clear that this is coming. However, WWE did a good job building up to the turn, with Orton successfully managing to drive a wedge between Wyatt and Luke Harper. Now, once Orton turns on Wyatt, he'll have destroyed the entire stable (well, unless Erick Rowan comes back to lend Bray a helping hand).

So how can the turn be executed? On the Smackdown after Elimination Chamber, Wyatt can come out with his brand-new championship and talk about how the family reigns supreme, and how Orton will be forgoing his title shot in favor of keeping "The Eater of Worlds" at the top of Smackdown's food chain. Of course, Wyatt will be the only one who doesn't see what's coming, which is an RKO and a WrestleMania challenge.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013