10 Last-Minute WWE SummerSlam 2016 Rumors You Need To Know

1. AJ Styles Wins

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After three months, the AJ Styles-John Cena is about to come to an end. It's been a great program, but in order for it to not have been a complete waste of time, Styles needs to go over in the blowoff match. Thankfully, that's what's going to happen.

We've seen John Cena's programs end badly before - Bray Wyatt and Rusev started on a downward spiral when Cena won feuds with them, while Kevin Owens's rise was hampered by an unnecessary loss to "Big Match John." None of those three men are where they would be if they'd come out ahead of Cena.

Styles, though, is more talented than any of them. Despite his age, he's athletic and talented enough to be a top star in WWE now and in the future. With the heel side on Smackdown fairly weak, WWE can't afford to cut his legs off right now. The people in power know it better than anybody, and that's why "The Phenomenal One" is going be the heel who finally unseats "The Face That Runs The Place."

This will be a huge win for Styles, and he'll mostly likely parlay it into a WWE Championship reign later in the year... which should last until he loses the belt to Cena.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013