10 Wrestlers Who Will Win Their First WWE Title In 2018

4. Hideo Itami

Hideo Itami
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Hideo Itami is on his way to 205 Live. Is this a step up from NXT? It is difficult to see how it is. The former KENTA will go from high profile matches against Aleister Black and Kassius Ohno to irritatingly competitive matches with Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese. While that sentence goes a long way to showing how stacked WWE’s roster is, it doesn’t mean good things for Hideo.

Despite that negativity, Hideo Itami will almost certainly be the man to dethrone Enzo Amore as WWE Cruiserweight Champion. If he fails to do that, wrestling promoters in Japan should immediately start forming an orderly queue ahead of his return to his home country.

I’m going to stay positive and say that 2018 will begin with Hideo Itami kicking Enzo Amore into whatever reality The Terminator currently finds itself in, and 205 Live will be strapped to the back of the man from Sōka. He will carry it well, but his reign with the purple belt will come to an end at the hands of…

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