This Sunday the WWE will bring us Night of Champions, live from Nashville. This particular pay-per-view is interesting because every title in the company will be defended, unlike at SummerSlam when the US and tag champs were left off of the card altogether. Let’s take a look at the match card and predict what we can expect Sunday night.
Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena (WWE World Heavyweight Title Match)
In what is being hyped as the biggest rematch in the history of the company (or at least since the last biggest rematch ever with Cena-Rock), the beaten and battered John Cena faces the Beast Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Title. At SummerSlam, Lesnar absolutely destroyed Cena in a match that was so uncompetitive that it is likely the most one-sided main event title match in the history of the company.
For those that missed it, the match basically featured Lesnar doing this to Cena a whole bunch of times.
But this being WWE and John Cena being John Cena, the ensuing month since SummerSlam has been all about the former Champ’s recovery and preparation to take on Lesnar again. The build-up has actually been pretty masterfully done, with Paul Heyman delivering promo after promo of excellence, culminating in him basically telling Cena to become a Paul Heyman Guy.
Teasing a Cena heel turn with Heyman is pure genius on the part of WWE, because fans are basically forced to tune in. Nobody who is a fan of wrestling wants to miss out on John Cena finally turning heel, and even though it probably won’t happen, fans will tune in just in case.
For Cena’s part, he has resisted Heyman’s overtures so far and turned back into the unbeatable and indestructible Cena that WWE fans have gotten used to seeing, and then some. Cena has destroyed the entire Wyatt Family on his own and taken it to Lesnar in an all-out brawl since SummerSlam. This of course, has the Cenation feeling pretty good about their leaders chances on Sunday.
So what happens at Night of Champions? Cena definitely (maybe) won’t be taking the same beating this Sunday as he did a month ago in Los Angeles. I expect a much more competitive match between the Champ and Challenger, and physicality should be on a whole different level Sunday night. But can Cena really win? While the chances of WWE putting the strap back on him is always no worse than 50/50, it’s just too soon to take the titles off of the man who has become WWE’s greatest heel of at least the last 25 years.
Expect a win for your reigning, defending, WWE Heavyweight Champion of the World, BA-ROCK LESSSSSNARRRRR!
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