Final Picks for Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt and WWE Extreme Rules 2020 Card

The Horror Show at Extreme Rules on Sunday has the potential to be one of the most interesting pay-per-views WWE has put on in quite some time.

Not only does the name itself spark intrigue, but the card also has some interesting stipulations.

Seth Rollins and Rey Mysterio will try to pluck each other's eyeballs out of their sockets in an Eye for an Eye match, Braun Strowman will confront his demons against Bray Wyatt in a Wyatt Swamp Fight and more.

There's no telling what we're in store for, but let's try to guess what will happen ahead of time anyway!

Before the show begins, let's run down the card with one last round of picks for who will win at Extreme Rules 2020.

SmackDown Tag Team Championship Tables Match

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One of the hardest matches to predict for this show is the tables match for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship.

Fundamentally, tables matches are good for making a champion lose without having them look too weak.

Just as a ladder match allows for a title to change hands because someone simply climbed faster, Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura can become the new tag team champions without making Big E or Kofi Kingston tap out or succumb to a pinfall.

There have been plenty of tables matches that have ended with slip-ups and surprise winners, like Big Show accidentally stepping through a table or Sheamus getting lucky by knocking down John Cena off the ropes.

The New Day have held the titles long enough and are the most established tag team on the roster. If Cesaro and Nakamura were to defeat them, they wouldn't lose any clout. Plus, if WWE wants to have them hold the gold heading into Survivor Series or something, they can simply win back the titles.

In order to beat The Dudley Boyz for the most reigns in history, they will have to lose the titles and win them back again anyway. Who's to say it doesn't happen Sunday?

But by no means is that a guarantee. It's a toss-up. The New Day could simply retain and hold the belts indefinitely until a new team like The Forgotten Sons return to the fold.

Flip a coin. There's no telling what WWE has in store. When in doubt, go with the champions retaining, even if its just by a hair.

Prediction: The New Day retain.

SmackDown Women's Championship Match: Bayley vs. Nikki Cross

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The theme for nearly an entire year with Bayley as champion has been to build slowly to the inevitable Sasha Banks feud.

That has forced a situation wherein Bayley has done nothing but cycle through the same contenders for several months because WWE doesn't seem invested in building new legitimate challengers. Instead, the promotion looks for filler fights before her long-awaited split with The Boss.

For context, this will be the 18th match Cross and Bayley have competed in together since the champion won the title at Money in the Bank 2019. What's worse is that doesn't even take into account the other variations like Alexa Bliss against Bayley or Banks or Cross vs. The Boss.

It's all about The Golden Role Models, and Cross is one of the go-to options to fill time. She stands no chance of winning this title.

Prediction: Bayley retains.

United States Championship Match: Apollo Crews vs. MVP

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There are two conflicting schools of thought for Apollo Crews against MVP for the United States Championship, but both make perfect sense.

Did WWE have MVP unveil the new United States title design so when he wins it, he can transition to using that belt and it will have seemed obvious from the start?

Or was that a ruse? Was it easier for MVP to bring it out just to explain the upgrade, only to swerve fans by having Crews retain and take that belt for himself?

With an even bigger threat looming for the champion in Bobby Lashley, who would make for a great SummerSlam opponent for Crews to try to win that belt on MVP's behalf, place your bets on Crews retaining.

It wouldn't be the biggest shocker for MVP to become the United States champion again, but if the goal is to get somewhere with Lashley, his manager shouldn't be the one holding the gold.

Prediction: Crews retains.

Raw Women's Championship Match: Asuka vs. Sasha Banks

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There isn't much going on in the feud between Asuka and Sasha Banks. This isn't some deep storyline with twists and turns or complex character arcs.

For the most part, it's a means to give Asuka a challenger while pushing The Golden Role Models even more to the forefront so that when they split, it seems like a bigger deal.

The best-case scenario is that WWE plays into this by having Banks help Bayley retain against Cross, only for Bayley to not reciprocate for this match. Either Bayley could not show up to help or possibly make things worse by interfering and costing Banks the match.

That would drive an even bigger wedge between the two while Asuka remains the figurehead of the Raw women's division.

Prediction: Asuka retains.

Eye for an Eye Match: Rey Mysterio vs. Seth Rollins

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WWE is treating the Eye for an Eye Match as something that will see either Rey Mysterio or Seth Rollins quite literally have their eyeball plucked out of the socket.

There's no way that will actually happen, but that's not going to stop WWE from hyping it up like it is the endgame.

At that point, though, how does WWE follow it up?

The loser would never be able to see correctly again, be cleared to wrestle or forgive the other. It's beyond ludicrous.

Knowing WWE, though, they will probably just wrestle with their eye covered for a few weeks before magically healing.

That means either Mysterio will have a mask with both eyes obscured or WWE will slap an eye patch on Rollins.

It's the type of booking that makes no sense, so there's no way of predicting how WWE plans on writing the story beyond this point. Flip a coin, and you'll have the same odds at guessing who wins. No in-depth analysis could brace us for the silliness that's set to ensue.

Prediction: Rollins wins.

WWE Championship Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Dolph Ziggler

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For whatever reason, Dolph Ziggler hasn't revealed what the stipulation will be for his WWE Championship match against Drew McIntyre.

Perhaps this is WWE's attempt to spark curiosity in fans in the hopes people will tune in just to find out what the answer to that mystery will be. Maybe it's because WWE doesn't even know what to do and is waiting until the last minute to come up with something.

The best-case scenario is that in the story itself, Ziggler wants it to be a surprise to have an advantage over McIntyre. Even that, though, won't stop him from losing this match.

There's no way McIntyre drops the belt to Ziggler prior to SummerSlam—or to The Showoff at all, for that matter. The Scottish Terminator has been far too strong of a champion to lose to someone who doesn't have close to the same main event clout right now.

If this were Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton or anyone else with a better track record, McIntyre might be in trouble. Ziggler is just a temporary nuisance McIntyre will swat away before moving on.

Prediction: McIntyre wins.

Wyatt Swamp Fight: Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt

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WWE loves booking champions to lose in scenarios wherein they won't drop their belts, such as tag team matches. Any time a titleholder walks into a non-title match, it's typically a sign of an impending defeat.

The Universal Championship on the line in the Wyatt Swamp Fight, so if Braun Strowman isn't victorious, there are no ramifications.

WWE's goal may be to have Bray Wyatt look strong so a third match between the two can take place at SummerSlam with the belt up for grabs and The Fiend in the driver's seat. A win here would certainly swing this feud's momentum over to The Eater of Worlds.

Then again, this may not necessarily even have a true winner.

As this will be a cinematic match, it doesn't have to include a referee or any official ruling. It may be a brawl that just ends with some sort of ominous threat or Strowman in a precarious position.

In any case, the likely goal is to give the universal champion a loss without having the title change hands in order to do one more Strowman vs. Wyatt affair in August, so if there's a winner Sunday, it will be Wyatt.

The only way Strowman puts down Wyatt for good and wins is if WWE has a plan for someone else to fight for the title at SummerSlam. But as nothing else has been hinted at, that's hard to believe.

Prediction: Wyatt wins.

Anthony Mango is the owner of the wrestling website Smark Out Moment and the host of the podcast show Smack Talk on YouTube, iTunes and Stitcher. You can follow him on Facebook and elsewhere for more.