![]() The answer very likely depends on how Taker has felt in the gym the last few months. ![]() So, on RAW or SmackDown this week, we’re likely to see one of two things: the Undertaker does arrive despite Cena being told that wasn’t in the cards by WWE management, as he said in his promo on Monday’s show a couple weeks back, or Cena legitimately is going to miss WrestleMania 34, which sets up a long-term story line for when he’s in a better position to wrestle full-time again. ![]() He now has weeks to go and no pay-per-views left, and still no direct path to WrestleMania 34. Cena still has no path to WrestleMania 34Ĭena came out of the gate on fire, hitting Corbin, Ziggler, Zayn, and Owens with Attitude Adjustments, but he couldn’t keep that pace going throughout, and suffered defeat in the end of Sunday’s main-event just like all of those men whose attitudes he adjusted. McMahon feels like a real waste for these two to be spending their attention on, but at least Sunday’s main event advanced the story and introduced stronger tensions, while opening up a space for Daniel Bryan - SmackDown’s other authority figure - to get on McMahon for directly interfering in the match, twice, after what was clearly an unintended kick from Owens. Shane O’Mac then broke up pin attempts of both Owens and Zayn, pins that were likely going to end the match and make them WWE champion, so those two have a place to direct their justified anger besides each other. Zayn ended up ducking an Owens’ kick later on in the match, and it found a new target: Shane McMahon’s head. Zayn laid down in the middle of the ring for Owens as promised, but Owens didn’t trust Zayn to stay down, and all hell broke loose from there. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens are fighting each other again, but still have a common enemy in Shane McMahon his old rival from New Japan Wrestling should make for a serious championship bout at Mania. ![]() Nakamura had a poor start to his WWE career thanks to some strange decisions for feuds and how those feuds went, but he’s begun to look like the superstar he was presented as when he arrived stateside, and Nak vs. Most importantly, though, Styles won, which gives us the matchup most people want to see. What we got was things going off the rails from the start - Cena hit his finisher on four opponents before Styles decided against running right into one, and then it was signature moves and finishers and false finishes due to interference and brutal attacks on the outside and broken announce tables and stairs getting thrown and Corbin did throw someone into the crowd, but alas, did not then use a fan as a weapon. To make up for that relative lack of tension and surprise, things should probably go super off the rails, with false finishes and broken set pieces and Baron Corbin throwing someone into the crowd and then using a fan as a weapon or something. This is probably a match that should be very aware of the lack of tension about the wrestler with the best chance to win, as that’s Styles retaining his title despite the fact anyone else could pin Dolph Ziggler at literally any time during the match and become champ instead. Even better, we got to this conclusion almost the exact way I suggested we should: No swerves here: Royal Rumble winner Shinsuke Nakamura wanted to face AJ Styles for the WWE championship at WrestleMania 34, and after Styles successfully defended his title in a six-pack challenge at Fastlane, that’s just what Nakamura is going to get. Shinsuke Nakamura will indeed face AJ Styles at WrestleMania 34 If you want the full blow-by-blow recap experience, check out our live blog from Sunday night. These are the five things we learned from WWE Fastlane 2018, a show that split its time between being really good and making you wish you could fast-forward through live TV to get to the next match. And because of what went down at Fastlane Sunday night, we also have a much better sense of what SmackDown will be contributing to WWE’s biggest show of the year. The next stop on the Road to WrestleMania is WrestleMania 34 itself, thanks to the completion of the SmackDown-exclusive pay-per-view, Fastlane.
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