10 Burning Questions For WWE Raw (Sept 19)

8. Can Rusev Maintain Upper Hand?

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After being gone for a couple weeks, Rusev returned last week to cost Roman Reigns a world (universal) title match and then pummeled Reigns, beating him into silly putty.

This seems to be setting up a United States Championship match between the two at Clash of Champions, where all of Raw’s titles are supposed to be on the line. Considering that their title match at SummerSlam was canceled after Roman beat Rusev up outside the ring, this should be a pretty intense brawl for the title.

But going into the go-home Raw, will Rusev be able to keep the upper hand in this feud, or will WWE insist on letting the Big Dog gain a measure of retribution on Monday? If Rusev dominates again, it could be setting things up for Reigns to overcome at the PPV, but WWE also just might want to show that Reigns has a fighting chance rather than being dominated two weeks in a row.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.