WWE Backlash 2018: 8 Huge Predictions You Need To Know

7. *Really* Big Night

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There'd be little way to bury Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn further than this exact match did on Raw a fortnight earlier, short of of 'The Monster Among Men' whipping out his bare d*ck and p*ssing in the ring a la Brian Pillman in 1996.

Vince McMahon will presumably be as in flagrante during the contest when Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley make their entrances for what should be yet another perversely entertaining squash. Two absolutely enormous muscle heads will make short work of a short guy and one with a belly - a vision of a generation McMahon probably still mourns the overall death of.

There's been some murmurs around a possible Lashley turn, but is Backlash with a capital 'B' really the event to pull the trigger on an angle as figuratively big as it is literal? The two behemoths could carry one another through the summer should Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns be holding the Universal Title hostage. Breezily blowing through it as they did with the last Braun/Brock programme in 2017 would be as wasteful now as that was then.

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