15 HUGE WWE SummerSlam 2018 Predictions You Need To Know

10. Soft Shield

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Dean Ambrose didn't utter a word during his Monday Night Raw comeback, but looked every bit the prison escapee his lame new WWE.com t-shirt professed him to be in the process.

Seth Rollins, on the other hand, couldn't stop smiling. He gushed as the two fisted following their show-closing scuffle with Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre, patently unaware that this latest Shield tease will be even shorter-lived than the injury-ravaged effort last year.

The silence behind the violence won't have been without storyline logic, with the lunatic's fringe getting chopped to add to the aesthetic of a deranged man driven to the bring by his unexpected absence. Ambrose may happily chase off 'The Scottish Psycopath' in an apparent evening of the odds, but it's a long-dormant disdain for 'The Architect' that will figure in to the big finish.

Seth losing as a result of the Ambrose heel turn will furnish the company with months of fresh matches, not least between the former 'brothers' on opposite sides of the divide. WWE have claimed their return pop - time to take advantage of the shock heat too.

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