Ranking 10 Most Likely Candidates To Win Their First WWE World Title

3. Rusev

With WrestleMania out of the way and the League of Nations dead and buried, World Wrestling Entertainment has begun repairing the damage it did to one of it's fastest-rising stars of 2014/15. I'm talking, of course, about the Bulgarian Brute and current United States Champion, Rusev.

When the clock turned 12 and 2014 became 2015, the former Aleksander was arguably the number one heel in all of WWE. He had yet to be pinned and had yet to submit, the United States Championship was slung over his shoulder and his partnership with Lana was one of the high-points of WWE creative at the time.

Then John Cena happened, and we all know how that went. Rusev then found himself in one of the worst WWE stories in memory with Dolph Ziggler, and the fastest-rising star in the company was reduced to throwing fish at Lana and Ziggler.

Once WWE finishes the repair job on Rusev, he will surely be a main event player for years to come. There must be a World Championship in his future (so long as he avoids John Cena). If he doesn't win it, something has seriously gone wrong here.