5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Battleground 2017

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5. Bulgarian Brute Is Back

John Cena Rusev
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Maybe this time will be different…

Even though he lost Sunday night, it was good to see Rusev back in action after being on the shelf for four months. Rusev has long been a guy you can depend on for a solid effort and often times hard-hitting matches that fans are into. And while his match with John Cena at Battleground was disappointing, Rusev didn’t look like he had lost a step.

And hopefully, that will translate into some big wins soon, because SmackDown could always use a guy like Rusev lurking behind a corner. Rusev has been criminally misused in recent months, so hopefully this will change this time around.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.