11 Burning Questions For WWE Raw (April 11th)

Did anyone have “three months” on their scorecard for “How soon will AJ Styles get a world title shot?” The Phenomenal One debuted in WWE at the Royal Rumble in January, and he won a #1 contender’s match last week on Raw. That’s quite a meteoric rise.

Of course, no one is predicting that AJ will win the title in his first shot and dethrone WWE’s chosen top guy. (Although if ratings take a nosedive in the coming weeks, that conversation could get louder.) It’s more likely that Styles takes Reigns to the limit before succumbing to the power of the Samoan bada** (as Paul Heyman calls him).

But in the interim, how will this rivalry heat up? Will Reigns continue to show an increasing smugness (as mentioned earlier) and be dismissive of AJ? Could Styles turn around and bring in some backup to achieve his goal? Imagine for a second the Bullet Club showing up to back Styles, forcing Roman to call on his former Shield brethren to reunite and take on this threat.

Yes, that’s a far-fetched scenario, but it’s not an entirely impossible one. You might think that that would be a long-term storyline that would need to unfold over a course of months, but look at how compressed the “Summer of Punk” was in 2011. WWE has a habit of taking great storylines and rushing through them like a 7-year-old tearing through all of their Christmas presents in rapid fashion and then complaining there’s nothing left to unwrap.

We’ll see how things unfold. None of this could happen, and we could just see Chris Jericho interfering and AJ and Y2J go back to feuding. But right now, the possibilities are numerous.