5 bold predictions for WWE Clash of Champions 2017

#3 Randy Orton turns heel

Randy Orton is a heel-in-waiting on SmackDown Live

Before Survivor Series in November, we gave five reasons why Randy Orton could turn heel on his fellow Team Blue members to cost SmackDown Live victory in the five-on-five men’s elimination main event.

In the end, it was a far less drama-filled match than many people expected, with Triple H, Braun Strowman and Kurt Angle the only people to emerge from the match with potential storylines for the future.

Still, the fact remains that Orton is a much better heel than he is a babyface, as the man himself has admitted on multiple occasions, and it is surely only a matter of time before “The Viper” returns to his vicious ways once again.

He has run out of bad-guy opponents to face on SmackDown Live and, with everyone wondering which of Daniel Bryan or Shane McMahon will turn heel at Clash of Champions, perhaps WWE could swerve everyone and have Orton do it instead, allowing Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn to keep their jobs in the process.