Predicting Kairi Sane's voyage as NXT Women's Champion

#5 Purple hurricane

Friends no more.

After her incredibly tough match with Toni Storm, Io Shirai will emerge to seemingly assist Kairi Sane to the back. It will be a ruse, however. Incensed with rage and jealousy at the champion's success, Io Shirai will turn her back on her friend.

Not only did Kairi Sane win the Mae Young Classic that was originally hers to win, but now Io Shirai will have to witness her "buddy" once again defeat the woman who had previously bedeviled her, Toni Storm. It will be the straw that break's the camel's back.

The turn will be one of the most shocking moments in the NXT women's division's history. The crowd will instantly turn on Shirai in favour of the lovable Sane, but she won't care.

Io Shirai is considered the best in the world. She knows it and she's tired of playing second-fiddle to Kairi Sane.

From there, only one voyage awaits - a showdown between the former friends at TakeOver: Brooklyn 5.

The name is fitting because Shirai means "purple thunder" in Japanese. In the very building that Kairi Sane first won the NXT Women's Championship and began this Odyssey, Io Shirai will act as Zeus did against Odysseus, splintering her ship with a bolt of purple lightning.

Kairi Sane's reign will go down in flames as Io Shirai proves to everyone that she is indeed, the best in the world. The hurricane winds and turbulent waters will in turn take Kairi Sane to a foreign land - Raw or SmackDown - where an unknown fate awaits her.

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