WWE Payback 2017: Assessing The Potential Quality Of All 8 Matches
1. Randy Orton Vs. Bray Wyatt - WWE Championship House Of Horrors Match
It's almost impossible to predict how good the House of Horrors Match will be because nobody is entirely sure exactly what that entails.
Even WWE themselves seem to be operating on a title first, content later basis. They surveyed the WWE Fan Council a few weeks back to ask what they'd like to see, and the options were as baffling as you'd expect. They listed cage, darkness, fire, pitchforks, mirrors, projected images, a "match done outside the arena" in a "creep scary venue", music, and "Sheeple" - which is a strangely cuddly term for the purportedly terrifying extras in sheep masks. Hilariously, the option "nothing different" was also listed. Why even call it a House Of Horrors match?
Those averse to Wyatt's act might cynically observe that another straight singles match would be horrific in itself, given the tedious and weird for weird's sake bout at WrestleMania 33. The match does have the potential to veer across the spectrum from unique and entertainingly camp to so-bad-it's-good - but the Superstar Shake-Up fallout has all but telegraphed the winner.
The predictability of the match doesn't end with the finish.
On Monday's episode of RAW, the commentary team shed a fraction of light on what we might expect. The match will apparently begin in the "house" and end in the ring, which renders any near falls - or really, any of the action at all in the titular house inconsequential.