Predicting Next 10 WWE Champions (World And Universal)

4. Roman Reigns

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With Kevin Owens and then Finn Bálor on top of the Raw roster, Roman Reigns will have to continue to take a backseat... and he'll do it, but deep down inside, he won't be happy about it.

Reigns will continue to bide his time, feuding with upper card heels over the U.S. title, but after losing the belt, he'll turn his focus to the Raw Money in the Bank match. At the PPV, he'll outlast his opponents to capture the briefcase - and while the fans won't like it, they'll have to live with it.

At SummerSlam, though, Reigns will finally turn heel. During a babyface-versus-babyface match pitting Bálor against Seth Rollins, Reigns will attack both men - first taking out Bálor with a Spear, then doing the same for "The Architect." After a chair-based assault on both men, Reigns will cash in his briefcase and defeat Bálor for the title.

Raw will then have a new Universal Champion and a new top heel.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013