18 HUGE WWE WrestleMania 36 Predictions You Need To Know

9. Kevin Owens Vs. Seth Rollins

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Fair play to Kevin Owens and especially Seth Rollins for managing to make their story interesting in the most trying of circumstances - not the current global crisis, but the fact that all the heat in the story had completely involved by the Royal Rumble.

Rollins and Owens fought on the night their very feud began as a post-Survivor Series Chicago crowd unknowingly saw the formation of 'The Monday Night Messiah's new alliance with AOP, and then just...kept...fighting even before it became a slogan used to flog shirts for 'KO'.

Tag and singles combinations followed as the pair waged a draining war for months, but WWE's companywide slow-down came to benefit the pair at the most crucial time. More focussed on ending it once and for all, Owens spoke of his love for the Performance Center as a setting, whilst Rollins retorted with a very tidy callback to much of their shared and strained past.

This could have played to silence in a full Raymond James Stadium, but the fact that it's guaranteed to in the Performance Center takes away that being a stick to beat it with. As is, it could be a sleeper hit.

Winner - Kevin Owens

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