WWE Backlash 2017: 10 Huge Predictions You Need To Know
7. Squashing Sami
Considering Backlash will host three separate title matches in which the contenders are competing for championships they've never won before, SmackDown Live!'s 'Land of Opportunity' label still effortlessly peels away when reviewing the continued misuse and abuse of Sami Zayn.
It wasn't enough that he was given the honours of doing the honours in both the United States and WWE Title multi-man matches that set up this show's clashes, but a reversion to his backstage irritant persona in the run-up a six-man tag team match alongside Randy Orton and AJ Styles demoted him to bottom of the pile yet again.
However, it's unfair to detract too much from the diligent and ever-impressive improvement of his opponent Baron Corbin, who will be the latest beneficiary of Zayn's slow burial.
Smashing the 'Underdog from the Underground' all over the Talking Smack set two weeks ago, then doing the same following a Zayn interview on this week's edition of the main show, Corbin has been smartly presented as an intolerant bully with little interest in Sami's supposed pedigree.
He's been made to suffer where it counts recently too, taking defeats against Randy Orton and AJ Styles that he probably could have done without, but Sunday will mark his own redemption. Sami's latest descent has been so rapid that the match may resemble one of the original 'Lone Wolf' NXT squashes. Count along at home as Zayn falls further into the abyss.