2020 WWE Clash of Champions predictions, card, matches, start time, date, PPV preview, location - CBSSports.com
2020 WWE Clash of Champions predictions, card, matches, open time, date, PPV preview, location
WWE's Clash of Champions, the maintain where every title across the Raw and SmackDown brands must be defended, goes down this Sunday from the ThunderDome inside Orlando's Amway Center. Nine championship matches in total will take attach as part of this year's stacked card.
The WWE championship will be defended when Drew McIntyre puts the title up in contradiction of Randy Orton in an ambulance match. This headliner came nearby after both men sent the other to the hospital on the heels of McIntyre defeating Orton at SummerSlam. In the novel world title match on the card, the universal championship will be on the line as Roman Reigns faces cousin Jey Uso.
On the women's side, Bayley will protecting the SmackDown title against Nikki Cross, who had also challenged for the title at Extreme Rules over the summer. Meanwhile, Raw women's champion Asuka will fights Zelina Vega on the kickoff show.
Clash of Champions will twitch at 7 p.m. ET with the show predictable to last approximately three hours, not including the kickoff show, which starts one hour prior to the main card at 6 p.m. CBS Sports will be with you the entire way on Sunday with live results, highlights and analysis.
Let's take a closer look at who our CBS Sports experts imagined will come out on top at WWE Clash of Champions.
Raw Women's Championship: Asuka (c) vs. Zelina Vega
Look, there's just no way Asuka drops the title to Vega. WWE painted itself into a corner where every title obligatory to be defended on this PPV, and it obligatory an intermediate opponent for Asuka so it did not kill a bigger storyline on a short feud. Vega's sudden exclusive to wrestle again and challenge for the title -- not to state this match being on the kickoff show -- is further proof that there's no reason to maintain the title will change hands. Asuka will win handily -- hopefully rapidly -- and move on to better things (though it is good to see Vega wrestling again). Pick: Asuka retains the title -- Adam Silverstein (also Brent Brookhouse)
SmackDown Tag Team Championship: Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro (c) vs. Lucha House Party
The story with Lucha House Party seems focused on a breakup of the team, with Kalisto growing increasingly frustrated every time his squad doesn't pick up a victory. A loss here spurs that story up, and there hasn't really been enough do to a potential title loss for Nakamura and Cesaro. All that said, the tag division is a mess lustrous now, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that the titles do irritable hands, even if that seems unlikely. Pick: Nakamura & Cesaro preserve the titles -- Brookhouse (also Silverstein)
Raw Tag Team Championship: The Street Profits (c) vs. Andrade & Angel Garza
Just as with SmackDown, Raw's tag division is a mess. The Street Profits have had a long title run, holding the titles for more than 200 days. Still, they have five title defenses during that time, and Clash of Champions will only be the uphold time they've defended the belts since June. Andrade and Garza gazed to have broken up as a team, yet worked fine together in winning a triple warning to earn a title shot and their publishes may have been more focused on allowing Vega to break off and do her own thing. If nothing else, a title irritable here would freshen things up in the passe division. Pick: Andrade & Angel Garza win the titles -- Brookhouse (also Silverstein)
United Messes Championship: Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Apollo Crews
It feels way too early to take the title off Lashley at what time he won it from Crews at Payback. In nearly a month real winning the belt, Lashley has yet to defensive it. While Crews has been a consistent presence on Raw, Lashley and The Hurt Business are a true focal indicate right now. There's no viable reason to have Crews go over in this match and every reason in the earth to have Lashley remain champion. Pick: Bobby Lashley retains the title -- Brookhouse (also Silverstein)
Intercontinental Championship: Jeff Hardy (c) vs. AJ Styles vs. Sami Zayn (Ladder Match)
This is a tough call because there are two good options here in Hardy and Zayn. Unfortunately, the title has been exaltering hands a lot recently with no one having longer than a two-month reign this year. While taking the title off Hardy may be a tough exclusive, it would vault him into universal championship contention. He would be a substantial foil for Roman Reigns. There are also a number of midcard faces to quarrel for the title, such as Matt Riddle and Big E. Only back a few weeks, Zayn is already back to his old self, not just on the mic but in the ring. His smug, condescending relate winning this title without having to pin Hardy -- maybe even lucking into it at what time Hardy and Styles take each other out -- would be a fun moment, and he would do a substantial job with it. Pick: Sami Zayn wins the title -- Silverstein (also Brookhouse)
WWE Championship: Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Randy Orton (Ambulance Match)
It's downhearted that McIntyre's coronation and entire reign have come during the pandemic minus fans in attendance, but he's nevertheless done a improbable job as WWE champion. However, Orton is the hottest heel in the entire commerce right now, and he has nowhere further to go as the reemerged Legend Killer if he does not eventually take one of the two main titles. With this intimates an Ambulance Match, there is an easy out for McIntyre to lose minus being pinned. And considering the go-home Raw above with McIntyre attacking Retribution, I could see a scenario where they want ... retribution. In a no-rules match like this, there are so many ways for McIntyre to lose the title minus being hurt character-wise that it makes the most touched to do it now, even if he wins it back from Orton in a few months. Pick: Randy Orton wins the title -- Silverstein (also Brookhouse)
Universal Championship: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Jey Uso
An downhearted byproduct of a show where all titles have to be defended is that many of the matches have minor drama in the outcome. The Reigns vs. Uso story is lifeless, but Reigns isn't dropping the title to his cousin. That is as terminate to a guarantee as you can get in a domain title match. At least the ride to the carry out should be a fun one. Pick: Roman Reigns retains the title -- Brookhouse (also Silverstein)
Note: The behindhand matches were scrapped from the show.
Women's Tag Team Championship: Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax (c) vs. The Riott Squad
Unlike the Raw women's title match, the Riott Squad are legitimate contenders for these straps. I could see a morose here if the goal was simply to use Baszler & Jax as transitional champions -- two wrestlers unobstructed enough to beat Bayley & Sasha Banks but not good enough together to take down a real team. Ultimately, conception, I feel like there's more runway for Baszler & Jax together afore their obvious and eventual split. Pick: Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax withhold the titles -- Silverstein (also Brookhouse)
SmackDown Women's Championship: Bayley (c) vs. Nikki Cross
The decision-making to put Cross back in a title match once she failed to win the championship over the summer was odd, but really more a progenies of Bayley needing a stay-busy opponent as things stay to build toward the bigger program between Bayley and Sasha Banks. Cross isn't winning the title here, conception WWE did a good job of exchanging the story of her challenge to be that now she has a fair disputes on her hands without having to danger about Banks at ringside. Pick: Bayley retains the title -- Brookhouse (also Silverstein)
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