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#3 Point: It’s time for the WWE Championship to main event again
At WrestleMania 34, AJ Styles was booked for a purist’s dream match against Shinsuke Nakamura. These two had torn the house down in New Japan years before and there was every reason to believe that they’d do so again in front of a stadium crowd for WWE.
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They didn’t get the main event nod, though, despite competing for the WWE Championship. That honor went to Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns.
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To be fair, out of a middling story and working a tepid face vs. face encounter to set up Nakamura’s heel turn, this match didn’t exactly set the world on fire. Just the same, that the match occurred third from the top was emblematic of how WWE management seems to see Styles and his title reign. He’s good enough to maintain as champ, but there’s just not enough long term vision for him carrying the company to properly get behind him and let him close out PPVs. It’s high time we get back to a situation in which the WWE Champion is a star the company treats as a similar or greater draw to the Universal Champion.
