Mania 36 Champions Update For 16/2

Kambi republished some of its WWE WrestleMania 36 champions specials yesterday.

In these markets, customers can wager on the person they believe will be holding WWE's major titles once the April 5th PPV concludes.

The last time these specials were available was in the middle of December. A lot has happened since then, and - in some cases - the directions for WrestleMania are beginning to look somewhat clearer. As a result, certain names have become favourites and others - who we thought had a chance of being in the title picture over the spring - are.. well, they're not.

In this post, I'll take a look at the markets in the order they appear on Kambi's list and point out how they differ from previous updates.

NXT Championship

Tommaso Ciampa will get his opportunity to once again become NXT Champion when he takes on Adam Cole at NXT TakeOver: Portland tonight. He is currently the 7/10 favourite to be in possession of the strap when all things are settled in the early hours of April 6th.

As you'll see in the table. Ciampa started off as a 3/4 favourite, but was cut into 4/6 a few days later. His current price is slightly better.

The wrestlers whose prices have shortened since December's update are the current champ - Cole - who is now 7/2 from 4/1 and Finn Balor who's 5/2 from 3/1. 

When the market was first published on November 30th, I mentioned that Ciampa as favourite made the most sense to me considering he was on the comeback trail. He still makes sense to a degree as I reckon he'll regain the title tonight. Whether he's still holding it by the end of WrestleMania 36 is another thing.

If I had to make a guess as to what the NXT Championship match for TakeOver is on the night before Mania, I'd have to go with Finn Balor as the challenger. So, the slip for his odds is understandable.

What should also not be ruled out, however, is the bout that they were going for before Ciampa was injured and that would be another meeting with Johnny Gargano.

WWE Raw Women's Championship

I think it's safe to presume that the WWE Raw Women's Championship match at WrestleMania will be between the champ - Becky Lynch - and her current nemesis, Shayna Baszler.

Both wrestlers appear on the list. Both have been cut from 33/20 into 17/20. However, Baszler has been on the decline since day one as she initially started out at 7/2. This was mainly due to the fact that many, myself included, thought The Queen of Spades would be the 2020 Women's Royal Rumble winner.

The eventual Rumble winner - Charlotte Flair - still exists as a runner on this list due to the fact that, until she chooses her WrestleMania opponent, she is still technically in play. However, her odds moving from 5/1 to 19/2, should point out that the bookmakers are more than aware that the chance of Flair leaving Mania as Raw Women's Champion is unlikely.

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Smackdown Women's Championship
On next week's episode of WWE Smackdown, Naomi and Carmella will wrestle to see which of the two will challenge Bayley for the Smackdown Women's Championship at the WWE Super Show-Down PPV from Saudi Arabia.

Naomi appears on the list for the Smackdown title as a newcomer. And a 4/6 favourite at that.

The current champ - Bayley - is in second place with a shortened price of 13/10 from her most recent number of 4s.

The early shifts went the way of Sasha Banks, who fell from 23/20 into EVS between November 30th and December 2nd and was then backed from 6/5 into 23/20 between December 3rd and 7th.

Banks has now risen to 2/1, which is understandable considering she hasn't wrestled in a while due to an injury.

Women's Royal Rumble winner - Charlotte Flair - is now out to 10/1 from her previous price of 7/1.

WWE Universal Championship

Roman Reigns is still a favourite to be the Universal Champion coming out of WrestleMania. He had started out at 4/6 in November. His price had dropped down to 1/2 by December 7th, but it's now up to 7/10.

The current champion - Bray Wyatt - was 33/20 to start out, but rose to 2/1 (2 Dec) and then to 9/4 (7 Dec) and has now dropped to 11/10.

Wyatt's next opponent - Bill Goldberg - has been added to the market at 5/1.

Another few notable changes are Braun Strowman falling from 15s into 12/1 and Baron Corbin's price being halved from 66/1.

John Cena who is returning to TV on February 28th, is now 5/2 from 9/1. However, this morning's episode of Wrestling Observer Radio mentioned that the current Mania plan for Cena is to wrestle Elias on the card. This report obviously places him very far from the title picture.

WWE Championship

With Drew McIntyre eliminating Brock Lesnar from the Royal Rumble - and then going on to win the match itself - the WWE Championship match was made for WrestleMania.

McIntyre has been installed as a 1/2 favourite to leave the event with the strap. 

With the market now only listing two names, the odds for Brock Lesnar have had to be adjusted from 23/10 into 7/5.

Prices were correct as of 6PM GMT last night. However, I also looked over them before writing the post today to note any changes. All were still showing the same prices.

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