8 Huge WWE Great Balls Of Fire Predictions You Need To Know
Goodness Gracious!
Laughed off as more Vince McMahon silliness when first mentioned, the time has somehow arrived. The American Airlines Center will on Sunday play host to WWE Great Balls of Fire.
WWE Great Balls of Fire.
Like many stupid wrestling names (Dolph Ziggler, Triple H, Daniel Bryan), what at first triggers an incredulous laugh eventually becomes accepted parlance, and there exists the very real possibility that in ten years time, fans will look back fondly on a decade of Great Balls of Fire with treasured memories. This is not then though, and WWE seem to have worked to combat almost universal derision by presenting a main event that embodies the bombast and explosiveness of the divisive title.
In Brock Lesnar and Samoa Joe, the company have two of the industry's great bulldozers, and their first ever meeting is likely to be a rip-roaring war befitting such an overtly masculine presentation. Elsewhere, Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman will beat the living sh*t out of one another if past experience is anything to draw from, and Jeff Hardy can expect a few new gaps in his gums after spending thirty more minutes with Sheamus.
Can Monday Night Raw's final pay-per-view offering before SummerSlam offer some reward for weeks of dreadful television? Or will it be just another flaming balls up?
8. Bray To Slay
There can be few men on the WWE roster to currently float more aimlessly than Bray Wyatt and Seth Rollins. Despite both winning WWE Titles in the last twelve months and decisively winning feuds over their biggest rivals in that time, both look utterly rudderless on a week-to-week basis on Raw's bloated upper card.
Bereft of the excitement in the Lesnar/Joe main event or brutality of the Reigns/Strowman war, Rollins and Wyatt have been forced to rely on Bray's woeful promos to carry a rivalry that was formed from thin air following the Extreme Rules fatal five-way last month.
Exposing the 'Eater of Worlds' yet again, the verbiage is verbose but vapid, building a feud on foundations ropier than the burnt out shack Randy Orton left in the woods shortly before WrestleMania. Wyatt's emblematic of a much bigger problem on the main roster of course, but it wouldn't be too big a shout to suggest he could do with a trip back to NXT for a long rethink, or cut adrift entirely to give the character a bit of new life on a thriving independent scene.
He does however, desperately need a win, and will sneak one here against the freewheeling 'Kingslayer'. Naturally, it won't be conclusive, with more of this torment still to come.