8 New Directions For WWE After Payback 2016

8. A New Challenger For Kalisto

For their third straight show WWE pay-per-view the United States Championship was defended on the pre-show, as Kalisto managed to get the best of the bully Ryback once again. The match was far and away the best between the two, with Ryback in particular impressing. Maybe it was the Chicago crowd and his CM Punk baiting or just a performer with increased comfort in their role, but the Big Guy was on fire last night.

Even so, Kalisto has now defeated the former Skip Sheffield in two straight title defences, and it'll take something drastic for the Big Guy to get a third. Kalisto should now ease into a new beef with a new challenger, to put together excellent pre-show matches over the summer.

Who will that challenger be? There are plenty of options on the roster, and Kalisto's size means a bigger foe is inevitable. A certain Bulgarian Brute has been talking up the championship on Twitter.

Authored by John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

Posted On: 2nd May 2016

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