18 Things You Might Have Missed From WWE Backlash 2018

4. AJ Styles Still Hasn't Learned His Lesson

AJ Styles Shinsuke Nakamura
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It's getting ridiculous now. Why doesn't AJ Styles do the sensible thing and wear a protective (metal) cup before his matches with Shinsuke Nakamura? It's obvious to everyone but the oblivious babyface that Naka plans to sucker punch him in the nuts every chance he gets.

Backlash was the place to pull off one of those clever good guy moments, have Shinsuke go for the low-blow, recoil in agony and show AJ pulling a steel plate out of his gear.

That didn't happen, which is slightly surprising, and Styles continued looking like an idiot by refusing to come prepared. OK, so he was finally able to give Nakamura a ball shot of his own, but it shouldn't take weeks of repeated groin punches for AJ to fire back.

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