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WrestleMania is the biggest wrestling event of the year and it's going to take place over two nights this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With a tall card consisting of the best of the best in the industry, one cannot wait for the event, despite it being held without a live crowd due to unavoidable circumstances.
Most of the WrestleMania matches take months to develop, and the event usually gives us the biggest grudge matches and Championship matches of the year.
This year, no less than eight Championships will be defended during the event, and we are expecting at least a few of them to change hands while many reigning Champions will leave with their titles.
In this article, we will look at the five titles that could change hands at the event and the four titles that won’t.
#9 Won’t change hands - RAW Tag Team Championships
This match came into being on the March 23 episode of RAW. WWE decided to forge an alliance between Ricochet and Cedric Alexander to take on Angel Garza and United States Champion Andrade.
Andrade and Garza managed to defeat the babyfaces and get their first shot at the RAW Tag Team Championships. However, an injury to Andrade has forced NXT’s Austin Theory to step in and fill in for the United States Champion.
While The Street Profits have been together for long, the new pairing of Garza and Theory could turn out to be interesting, as seen on the RAW this week when the two teamed up with Seth Rollins to take on Kevin Owens, Angelo Dawkins, and Montez Ford.
This could end up being the first A-grade match of the night at the show, but the lack of backstory could turn the tide in the favor of the defending Champions.
The Street Profits are doing a great job at leading the RAW tag team division and giving the fans some memorable segments. Therefore, we can say with a certain amount of certainty that the team of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford will retain their titles at 'Mania.
#8 Could change hands - Universal Championship
Whenever Goldberg has set foot into the WWE ring, or any wrestling ring for that matter, the entire landscape of the company has changed for the better.
When Goldberg decided to challenge ‘The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt for the Universal Championship, most fans were convinced that it was just a way for WWE to feed more legends to the The Fiend. However, as the storyline developed, the feelings started to change.
Goldberg defeated The Fiend for the Universal Championship to the utter shock of The WWE Universe, and the delight of others, and met his first challenger soon after.
Roman Reigns, who was the Universal Champion and never really lost the title, stepped up to challenge Goldberg, and the two will meet at WrestleMania 36 for the Big Blue Belt.
While this will be Goldberg’s first title defense, and only his second match since returning to the company early this year, it seems more than likely that the company will allow The Big Dog or anyone who will replace him for the match, to defeat Goldberg to take the title back.
Goldberg seems to just be back to the company for a short while, and we could watch the Hall of Famer give someone else the rub and lose the title at the biggest show on his way out once again.
#7 Won’t change hands - Intercontinental Championship
The cunning Sami Zayn won the Intercontinental Championship after he booked himself in a handicap match against Braun Strowman while leading his team consisting of Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro.
While Nakamura and Cesaro did most of the damage, Zayn pinned Strowman to win the title from The Monster Among Men. A couple of weeks ago, Zayn offered Daniel Bryan a chance to get a shot at the title if his coach Drew Gulak could defeat Nakamura on SmackDown.
Last week, Gulak did the unthinkable and pinned Nakamura, winning a title shot for Bryan at WrestleMania.
While Bryan has been flying high recently, Zayn has just won his first singles title on the main roster after waiting for several years. Fans have been behind the villainous Superstar because they believe that The Great Liberator deserves a title reign, and therefore taking the title off him early would really get them against the company.
Zayn is an outstanding performer while Bryan seems to be done chasing Championships and is looking to push newer talent. Keeping that in mind, Zayn will most likely retain his title at The Show of Shows by scoring a big victory over the former WWE Champion.
#6 Could change hands - SmackDown Tag Team Championships
The SmackDown Tag Team Championships have been much more entertaining in the past few years as compared to the RAW Tag Team titles. Teams like The New Day and The Usos have increased the value of the titles while keeping the action hot.
The recent return of John Morrison and his alliance with The Miz has made the competition even more entertaining, and it has made the SmackDown Tag Team Championship storylines more interesting than that of many other titles.
At WrestleMania, Miz and Morrison will defend their titles against The Usos and The New Day in a Triple Threat Ladder Match in a match that could steal the show.
While both their challengers are multi-time SmackDown Tag Team Champions, Miz and Morrison are in their first reign. Both men have been entertaining thus far, but we could watch one of the other two teams pick up the victory as the match will have high stakes.
Since the return of The Usos, Jimmy and Jey have been flying high and had a good time during the Elimination Chamber match for the titles too. Keeping that in mind, the brothers seem to be the favorites to win the title at WrestleMania and thus give a chance to Miz and Morrison to chase the titles.
#5 Could change hands - NXT Women’s Championship
The NXT Women’s Championship has become one of the most sought after Championships in all of WWE. Shayna Baszler made the title iconic, while her victory over SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley and RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch at Survivor Series made things even better for the brand.
While the women she defeated still hold their titles, the NXT Women’s title is now held by Rhea Ripley who defeated Baszler for it. The daring young Ripley then confronted the Royal Rumble winner Charlotte Flair herself and made things even more interesting for her brand.
With the title on the line at WrestleMania, fans of both RAW and NXT will be glued to their screens to watch who will come out on top. While Ripley is a strong Superstar and an even better competitor, WWE could go with the more popular Superstar and award Flair the title.
This would allow them to bring The Queen back to NXT full time while giving her a chance to compete against the newer stars of the company on the brand. It will also increase the brand’s viewership and give fans a chance to see some of the new NXT talents compete against the best of NXT.
#4 Won’t change hands - WWE Championship
This is a match that almost everyone had been looking forward to for months, if not years. Brock Lesnar has forever been one of the biggest and most dominant Superstars in the history of WWE, while Drew McIntyre’s return has seen him become bigger than ever, even though he’s had his fair share of mixed bookings.
After eliminating Lesnar from the Royal Rumble and winning the Rumble match, McIntyre is on cloud nine and it seems like nothing can stop the Scottish Psychopath from defeating Lesnar and claiming his first WWE Championship.
While all the momentum is behind Mcintyre at the moment, a WrestleMania with a houseful crowd would have confirmed that McIntyre would defeat The Beast.
However, under current circumstances, it would be better if the Creative allow Lesnar to defeat McIntyre and continue their rivalry heading into SummerSlam where hopefully the situation will allow the crowd to pour in.
McIntyre deserves a big moment after waiting for so long, and he can wait a bit longer to win the title by overcoming The Beast. Hence, Lesnar retaining the WWE Championship feels like the most logical outcome at the time being.
#3 Could change hands - RAW Women’s Championship
Becky Lynch has been another dominant Champion in WWE. In fact, it can be said that she’s been the most dominant Superstar since last year’s WrestleMania. Even though she lost her SmackDown Women’s Championship, she’s been holding her RAW Women’s Championship.
While we’ve seen Asuka emerge push Lynch to her limits in recent times, it’s Shayna Baszler who's looked like a legit threat to The Man. The former NXT Superstar defeated Lynch and Bayley at Survivor Series, and her stocks have risen manifold since.
Baszler defeated five other Superstars at Elimination Chamber, eliminating each one of them, and earned her shot at the RAW Women’s title.
While Lynch has proven to be an outstanding Champion, WWE could look to change the course for some time and allow a new Champion to emerge to allow new matchups to take place.
With that in mind, Baszler currently seems like the only real threat to The Man, and we could watch The Queen of Spades defeat the face of RAW to claim her title and begin her reign of terror over the brand.
#2 Won’t change hands - SmackDown Women’s Championship
Bayley has been another good Champion who has proven to be an asset for the Blue brand. With a change in gimmick and character, Bayley has breathed life into her current reign as the SmackDown Women’s Championship.
Bayley has allied herself with her best friend Sasha Banks once again, and the two women have been leading the women’s division of SmackDown. Fans were expecting Banks to turn on Bayley before WrestleMania 36 but that did not happen which could be due to many different reasons.
Paige announced that Bayley will defend her title against not one, but five Superstars in an elimination match at WrestleMania, with Tamina, Naomi, Lacey Evans, Dana Brooke, and Sasha Banks, but Brooke was later removed from the match.
With so many mid-card and lower mid-card Superstars involved in the clash and no real storyline, it feels like WWE will protect Bayley again while possibly giving her a pinfall victory over Banks to ignite a feud between the two women.
This seems like the most logical idea at the moment, and the SmackDown Women’s Championship changing hands at WrestleMania 36 seems highly unlikely, especially with Banks still paired up with Bayley.
#1 Could change hands - Women’s Tag Team Championships
The Kabuki Warriors, consisting of Kairi Sane and Asuka, have been holding the Women’s Tag Team Championships since October, 2019 when they defeated Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross for the title at Hell in a Cell.
Since then, the two women have been enjoying their time at the top of the women’s tag team division, even though they have defended the title only about five times in over 170 days.
It’s time that the two women get down to business once again, and they will be up against the previous title holders at WrestleMania 36.
While The Kabuki Warriors have transformed into a great entertaining tag team, with Asuka proving to have developed her character well, WWE would want more interest in the titles by making the women compete for it more again. With that in mind, Bliss and Cross seem to be the babyfaces who are doing well and could once again win the titles at the big event.
The fans want WWE to mix it up now and then, and this would be good to have the babyfaces take the titles away from the heels and give fans some more tag team matches for the title in the months to come.
Therefore, even though there isn’t much storyline behind the clash, we could watch Bliss and Cross go over The Kabuki Warriors and take the Women’s Tag Team titles home.
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