WWE Extreme Rules: 5 things that shouldn't happen on the show

WWE Extreme Rules will go live this Sunday from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We have a stacked card for the event with ten matches announced so far and seven of them being championship matches.

The high profile contests at the event are the No Holds Barred tag team match between The Undertaker & Roman Reigns vs. Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre, and the winner-takes-all mixed tag team match between Seth Rollins & Becky Lynch vs. Baron Corbin & Lacey Evans. The show also includes other mid-card and women's division matches, and we can expect WWE to go extreme and live up to the name of the PPV.

With one of their Big 4 PPV’s SummerSlam coming up next month, WWE must ensure the success of Sunday’s PPV to build momentum towards the biggest party of the summer. That means they can not afford to make any mistakes at Extreme Rules, but sometimes human errors are unavoidable, and WWE could see themselves doing the following five things on the show.

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#5 AJ Styles losing to Ricochet

The Phenomenal One needs the win to keep his heel turn legitimate.

AJ Styles will take on Ricochet for the United States Championship at Extreme Rules. With Styles doing all that he could do as a babyface including a 371-day run with the WWE Championship, WWE decided to turn him heel to keep him relevant as an on-screen character. The Phenomenal One was teasing to embrace the dark side ever since he got drafted to Raw on the Superstar Shakeup and it finally materialized on last week’s episode of Raw.

AJ Styles turned heel on Ricochet after failing to capture the United States Championship. He laid out a vicious attack on the champion along with Gallows & Anderson, reuniting The Club in the process.

The Phenomenal One can't afford a loss just two weeks after his heel turn. If WWE intends to use him & the Club as a legitimate heel faction on television, they need to put the title on Styles at Extreme Rules and have him in an extended feud with Ricochet.

#4 Aleister Black vs. Cesaro getting a decisive result

These two can put on the match of the night!

Since Being drafted to SmackDown Live on the 2019 Superstar Shake-up, Aleister Black began cutting cryptic promos from a dark room awaiting a challenger. No one answered his challenge until someone knocked on his door on the June 25 episode of SmackDown Live.

WWE revealed Cesaro as the mystery challenger on this week’s SmackDown, and they will lock horns this Sunday at Extreme Rules. While all this hints at a potential push for the Dutch Destroyer, WWE should not waste Cesaro’s potential with a loss.

Cesaro has to be on the list of the most overlooked superstars in the history of WWE. Despite having the looks and the in-ring ability, WWE had nothing for him as a singles competitor. He did have some success along with Sheamus having multiple reigns as tag team champions. Apart from that, Cesaro couldn't accomplish anything significant in the WWE.

Both superstars cannot afford to lose at Extreme Rules, and the best way to end the match could be to have the match end in a no-contest. The superstars could take each other out after putting a spectacular match and force the referee to call for a no-contest. It could save both superstars from having to lose the match and give WWE a chance to do something significant with both superstars.

#3 Not having Bray Wyatt debut on the show

It has been three weeks since WWE concluded Bray Wyatt's Firefly Funhouse segments and his return has been teased by having his puppets stalk the WWE superstars backstage. The fans were hasty in judging Wyatt's new character as it turned out to one of the most entertaining segments on Raw & SmackDown Live apart from the 24/7 title segments.

Dragging Wyatt’s return any further could tarnish all the effort put into repackaging his character. Any further delays with no reason could make the fans lose interest in his re-debut. Extreme Rules could be the right place for the Fiend to announce his arrival in the WWE.

The other important thing WWE should be careful about is how they decide to re-introduce Wyatt to the WWE Universe. Having him anywhere down the main event picture will not do any good to establish his new character. The best way to announce his return will be by having him confront either the Universal Champion Seth Rollins or WWE Champion Kofi Kingston.

#2 Brock Lesnar cashing in on Kofi Kingston

Brock Lesnar has been teasing a possibility of cashing in his Money in the Bank contract on either Universal Champion Seth Rollins or WWE Champion Kofi Kingston ever since winning the MITB ladder match. Lesnar had two unsuccessful attempts at Rollins with his last try getting thwarted by the Beast Slayer at Super ShowDown.

His advocate Paul Heyman came out on this week's episode of Raw and announced that Lesnar could cash-in the MITB contract on Kofi Kingston or Seth Rollins at Extreme Rules. He also added that it could either happen, or he is just messing with the two champions, and only he and Lesnar know the answer.

Heyman asserted the fact the Lesnar could also choose to cash it in on Kingston for the WWE Championship at Extreme Rules. After having a failed cash-in attempt at Super ShowDown and enduring a beatdown at the hands of Seth Rollins, it will only make sense if the Beast Incarnate goes after the Universal Champion. Having him cash-in on Kingston would make him look weak and highlight his inability to get the regain the Universal Championship.

#1 Baron Corbin & Lacey Evans winning the titles

Let's hope it doesn't happen this Sunday!

When WWE announced Paul Heyman & Eric Bischoff's appointment as the new Executive Directors of Raw & SmackDown Live, the fans had high hopes that the product will become much better with the two legends at the helm. We can expect the changes to take place after Extreme Rules, and the fans would love a positive start to the new era.

WWE cannot have that positive start without satisfying their viewers and having Baron Corbin & Lacey Evans win their winner-takes-all match this Sunday would cause a severe uproar among the fans. While fans would like to see Lacey Evans as the Raw Women's Champion, the problem lies with Baron Corbin as the Universal Champion.

It's not that Corbin doesn't deserve a run with the title, but it's because of the over-exposure WWE has been giving him for a while. The fans have grown tired of seeing Corbin in the main event spots for a long time and having him win the title this Sunday would spell doom for the WWE, especially with AEW posing a serious threat.

Edited by Sai Teja