Predicting Every WWE Premium Live Event Main Event Until WrestleMania XL

The process for this is simple. Night of Champions, which emanates from Saudi Arabia on 27 May, warrants a marquee attraction because a) it's a Saudi show and WWE will go all out to secure such a fight, disregarding the safety issues that associate with dragging a Shawn Michaels or an Undertaker out of harmonious retirement, and b) its date marks 1,000 days for Reigns as Universal Champion.

Cody Rhodes is the overtly obvious candidate to face Roman at the event but by adding Brock Lesnar into the mix, too, there's instantaneously a different dynamic. Lesnar battering Cody was done forcefully and effectively in the sense that it created a further barricade between Rhodes and WWE title triumph. Mind, Cody doesn't particularly care for the Universal title; it's the WWE title he so craves, the title his father Dusty never held. Not that you'd ever know.

Granted, the aura and prestige surrounding Cody Rhodes aren't as strong as they were pre-WrestleMania, the formulaic manner in which he succumbed to a Reigns Spear eradicating all momentum he'd built since his April 2022 comeback. It's unlikely WWE would move forward with him still in the main event picture though if they didn't view him as such an act; Brock Lesnar's addition to the scene was done only because it's in Saudi Arabia. He's not winning it.