8 HUGE WWE Backlash 2023 Predictions You Need To Know

1. World Championship Clues?

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As the last Premium Live Event before Night Of Champions, WWE would be wise to feature their supposed top new prize on such a prominent show.

Seth Rollins and Finn Bálor were two of the first to make their intentions clear, but they won't be the last. Though Cody Rhodes hasn't acknowledged the thing on television yet - don't let WWE or anybody else tell you that this counts as "finishing the story" - and it'd be telling if it never came up at all, 'The American Nightmare' will be in the same orbit as the belt on Raw so he'll surely want in to whatever the tournament looks like. His opponent Brock Lesnar might, too.

Will any of this impact any of the finishes on the night? Hopefully not, but profiling the title will at least provide it with an elevated status away from what it actually is - a silver medal patterned after the original "Big Gold".

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