5 Superstars that should’ve challenged AJ Styles for the WWE Title at the 2018 Royal Rumble  

#3 A breakout NXT superstar

NXT has breakout stars that are waiting to prove they are World Championship material

The wrestling world knows that WWE has evolved into a product that has too much weekly content for casual or even hardcore wrestling fans to watch, their shows are coated in controversial booking errors and they are more focused on being an entertainment programme rather than a wrestling show.

But even though WWE is constantly making those mistakes, there is no denying that they have built a strong brand to house all their future World Champions.

NXT has given the company most of their biggest wrestling stars today such as Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe, and Seth Rollins to name a few. However, most of those talented athletes scorching hot momentum are completely wasted once they set foot on the main roster.

That problem only exists because of the NXT call-up procedure. The NXT call-up system is usually implemented after Wrestlemania, but instead of WWE allowing these NXT veterans to continue to build up themselves either on Raw or Smackdown Live, WWE hits the reboot button on these superstars and suddenly end their rapid rise.

That is why around Wrestlemania season, WWE should’ve revised their NXT call-up system and made an instant megastar out of any one of their young rising talent down at Full Sail University. And the best way to make a Superstar that has impeccable wrestling skill with appealing charisma and a solid connection with the fans into a future main eventer is to put that Superstar into the main event.

Which Superstar on WWE’s main roster can craft a 5-star match, make his opponent look like a million dollars and send a breakout star to the next level? AJ Styles!

Styles is arguably the best wrestler in the WWE which in turn makes him “the man” in the company, and as the saying goes, “to be the man you have to beat the man”, and if NXT royalty such as Aleister Black was given that opportunity at the 2018 Royal Rumble, WWE could’ve had the “next big thing” on their hands.