Wrestling Inc. Picks The Winners

The primary-ever WWE Clash in Paris is officially upon us, with no fewer than six WWE matches able to wow the gang in France’s capital city! Three titles are on the road — WWE tag team, women’s Intercontinental, and World Heavyweight — two sets of brawlers will collide — Roman Reigns vs. Bronson Reed and Sheamus vs. Rusev — and John Cena will bid Paris farewell with a singles match against Logan Paul.

So how easy is that this one to predict? The WINC staff are fairly sure we all know what is going on to occur in several of those contests (and the tag title match was actually announced too late for us to vote on it) but there are a pair which have us split. Which Clash in Paris matches do we expect could go either way, and which do we expect are already set in stone? Let’s get to the picks!

It’s going to be a battle for supremacy, Samoan pride, and the Shoe-la Fala on Sunday, as Roman Reigns and Bronson Reed are slated to collide in singles motion at Clash in Paris. Reed has been antagonizing Reigns for weeks, but a majority of us at Wrestling Inc. consider our “Original Tribal Chief” will get his revenge, with 71% of our writers predicting an incoming Reigns victory.

SummerSlam must have been the top for Reigns, Jey Uso, and the Vision, but Breakker and Reed are persistent. After some classic Vision interference in Uso’s Philadelphia Street Fight, Reigns challenged Reed to a match, and Adam Pearce soon made the match official for Clash in Paris. Reigns and Reed have been at one another’s throats ever since.

Each Reigns and Reeds are explosive performers. No one would expect a person of Reed’s construct to maneuver with such agility, but size isn’t any obstacle for the Australian’s intense, airborne move set. Many competitors have fallen to Reed’s Tsunami, including Braun Strowman, Sami Zayn, and Penta. If Reed plays his cards right, Reigns is likely to be next.

Reed could also be good, but Reigns is famous. A competitor in a league of his own, Reigns has multiple world championships, years of experience, and an aggressive move set to back him up in Paris. Should Reed’s inexperience open him as much as a Spear or a Superman Punch, we fear it’ll be “one, two, three” for him.

Sunday will undoubtedly see outside interference, with Breakker being the most probably offender as Uso and Rollins contest Rollins’ WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Candidates for Reigns-oriented interference are unclear, but Jimmy Uso or Zayn may very well be contenders. Regardless, Clash in Paris will see an all-out war, and while Reed is a effective soldier, we consider he’ll acknowledge Reigns by the top of the night.

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John Cena’s first singles bout since losing the Undisputed WWE Championship back to Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam is attributable to come against the person he teamed up with earlier this 12 months to “spoil wrestling,” Logan Paul, at Clash in Paris on Sunday. 

Paul and Cena teamed in defeat to Rhodes and Jey Uso at Money within the Bank in June, and with Cena abandoning his heel quest ahead of SummerSlam they’ve themselves turned from allies to adversaries within the aftermath. Paul has staked his claim to being the long run of WWE, seeing the retiring Cena as a bastion of the past, and as such wants to claim himself over the “Biggest of All Time” to legitimize that. 

Nevertheless, within the poll put to the Wrestling Inc. team, it was Cena that got the unanimous vote of confidence with 100%. It’s a tricky picture to color, the vision of Paul going over Cena in what could be very likely his final appearance in Europe, and with a Brock Lesnar feud on the horizon it looks like a foul idea to have Cena lose back-to-back singles matches. It’s price considering that a babyface Cena hasn’t picked up a win in major singles motion since 2018, and the incontrovertible fact that Lesnar has already shown an interest in Cena and will find himself involved someway. But on the face of it, it definitely seems the prospect to present Cena the chance to bounce back from SummerSlam and bid au revoir to France in victory.

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Becky Lynch looks to make her sixth Intercontinental defense in 83 days as she faces Nikki Bella within the latter’s first title match in seven years at Clash in Paris. 

To this point, Lynch has managed to carry off Bayley, Lyra Valkyria, Maxxine Dupri, and Natalya as only the second-ever holder of the title, and Bella has not even held a title in 10 years: the WWE Divas Championship, which has since been retired. So it definitely looks like a tall task for the veteran to be the one to stop “The Man’s” run as champion. Such has been reflected within the poll put to the Wrestling Inc. staff, with 100% backing Lynch to maintain her title once they go one-on-one in Paris. 

This might be the primary time they ever face each other in singles motion, having only feuded as a part of the PCB vs. the Bellas storyline in 2015 after which each pursuing the SmackDown Women’s Championship after the brand split in 2016, thus wrestling in tag team and multi-person matches. Bella’s last title run got here at an end as Lynch was coming as much as the primary roster, with Charlotte Flair succeeding her and Lynch winning her first title the subsequent 12 months. 

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After two months of nonstop brawling, Sheamus and Rusev are set to place their rivalry to an end this weekend once they enter battle in a Good Ol’ Fashioned Donnybrook Match. Although Clash In Paris will mark Rusev’s first match at a premium live event since returning to WWE, 64% of the Wrestling Inc. staff consider that this story concludes with Sheamus emerging victorious to finally bury the hatchet.

The previous League Of Nations members first kicked off their feud this past June, when Rusev pinned Sheamus after a heated 20 minute bout on “WWE Raw.” The subsequent month, “The Celtic Warrior” got his revenge on Rusev and evened the rating between them at one a chunk. Just two weeks later, each performers competed in a rubber match with the intention to put their feud to rest, but the competition resulted in a double count out, leading Rusev and Sheamus to brawl throughout the whole thing of the night. Each “Raw” stars have be unable to stop attacking one another leading as much as Clash In Paris, but with the Donnybrook Match being a stipulation Sheamus is greater than accustomed to, we expect his hand to be raised this Sunday.

Moreover, Sheamus has didn’t secure a victory at a PLE since 2022, together with his most up-to-date win coming at WWE Extreme Rules 2022 when he and the Brawling Brutes defeated Imperium in a Donnybrook Match. There isn’t any doubt that a win for Sheamus is overdue, but Rusev prevailing is also useful, as his character has struggled to recover from since returning to WWE this past April.

Moreover, it may very well be argued that the winner of this match could also be elevated into the Intercontinental Title picture, and with Sheamus being in pursuit of the gold for the last three years, a victory at Clash In Paris will hopefully push him closer towards winning the one championship that is eluded him his entire profession.

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WWE tends to book loads of multi-person matches relating to its championships to get as many big names on the cardboard as possible, and that appears to be what’s happening for the World Heavyweight Championship match at Clash in Paris. Seth Rollins might be defending his gold against CM Punk, Jey Uso, and LA Knight, but 100% of us here at WINC consider that Rollins is leaving Paris with the championship in tow.

Due to fatal four-way rules, there’ll presumably be no disqualifications, which suggests interference by The Vision. While Rollins may not have Bronson Reed at ringside, as he’s set to tackle Roman Reigns, likely earlier within the night, Bron Breakker might be fresh and waiting to get entangled, and Paul Heyman is all the time as much as no good even when he doesn’t get physical. Not many other people, outside of perhaps Jimmy Uso, could interfere on a babyface’s behalf and stop Rollins from getting the “W.”

Rollins also just won the title back at SummerSlam in “The Ruse of the Century,” so it doesn’t seem prone to us that he’ll lose it in a multi-man match when WWE can run singles programs with the champion and each considered one of these men. The large match goes to be between arch-rivals Rollins and Punk, after “The Visionary” cashed in his Money within the Bank briefcase on Punk after he held the title for just just a few moments. We do not think there’s any way Rollins loses this match, and we’re all entirely on the identical page about it.

Written by Daisy Ruth