11 HUGE WWE Extreme Rules 2018 Predictions You Need To Know

6. United States Champion Jeff Hardy Vs Shinsuke Nakamura

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Nutshot Nakamura's slide down the card was derailed further when he got bitten by a police sniffer dog before a recent SmackDown Live! taping, reducing much of his latest feud with Jeff Hardy to hypothetical hate. As is usually the case with WWE in the modern era of so...much...television, the brief break in hostilities has actually kept the feud fresh.

Furthermore, the match should be quite good too. 'The King Of Strong Style' gradually reached peak Shinsuke by the time his interminable feud with AJ Styles reached its depressing conclusion, especially in this new heel role he's rapidly grown into.

The company must avoid falling into the trap of making him just another rotten foreign menace of course (more on that later), but winning the United States Championship doesn't seem likely to stem that flow. It's time for Nakamura to hold gold of some description after his multiple failures against 'The Phenomenal One' though, so expect both Jeff and his Hardy ballz to take a pounding en route to a low key loss.

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