Predicting The First 10 WWE Universal Champions

8. Brock Lesnar

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For positive reasons or not, Brock Lesnar is the name on everybody's lips right now. Fresh off a "victory" at UFC 200, "The Beast" will be competing against Randy Orton in the main event of SummerSlam. Expect a good bout with plenty of exciting RKO teases, but in the end, there's no chance of anything but a decisive victory for Lesnar.

That win won't just be another example of main-event success for Brock Lesnar, it'll be a victory for Raw - after all, the Lesnar-Orton match was announced before the WWE draft, and with Lesnar claimed by Raw and Orton by Smackdown, it's now an interpromotional bout. Lesnar's win will soothe some of the wounds of Dean Ambrose's Battleground victory, and as a result, Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley will be indebted to him. They'll pay that debt with a title shot at Survivor Series.

The ensuing Seth Rollins-Brock Lesnar match will be a lot less one-sided (and as a result, a lot better) than their match at last year's Battleground show. In the end, though, Lesnar will dominate, and after an F5, he'll become the third WWE Universal Champion.

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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