WWE: 15 Predictions for 2017
By Carl Gac
WWE.com
11. Not Every Title Will Be Defended at WrestleMania
In the current Brand Split environment of WWE, there are a lot of people vying for opportunities. At the same time, there are a lot of titles floating around in WWE right now. With a current total of nine titles across Raw and SmackDown, it’s almost a certainty that some of those championships will not have a place on the WrestleMania card.
When you think that last years ‘Mania 32 had a total of nine matches on the main card, it’s impossible to think that WWE would have a nine-match card this time round with every title on the line. Even if the pre-show ran at more than two hours, there may still be little opportunity to see all the titles have a proper defence.
When you think that WWE will want to present a couple of special attraction matches, with perhaps Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg amongst them, there will be no room for the lower level championships.
It’ll come down to the point where WWE will make some Championships feel like they are almost irrelevant, with the likes of the Cruiserweight title, or potentially the SmackDown Women’s title at risk of being the biggest victims on the night. Titles may not mean a lot to some fans, or even wrestlers, but if you can’t see them defended on the biggest night of the year you may as well declare them obsolete.