5 Takeaways from this week's WWE SmackDown Live (10 July 2018)

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#4 Rusev has little-to-no chance of winning the WWE Championship

Rusev has never had a one-on-one WWE Championship match

Rusev will face AJ Styles for the WWE Championship at Extreme Rules but, in all honesty, it’s pretty clear from recent storylines that “The Bulgarian Brute” has no chance of emerging with the victory on Sunday.

We praised WWE in last week’s post-SmackDown Live article for keeping fans guessing over the potential winners of the upcoming matches at Extreme Rules. However, it’s safe to say that Styles’ eight-month reign as WWE champion isn’t going to end in Pittsburgh.

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Rusev is still popular with fans, despite WWE continuing to portray him as a heel, but there hasn’t been anywhere near enough storyline build-up for this match for him to be seen as a serious threat to “The Phenomenal One”.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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Edited by Shiven Sachdeva