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4. A Street Fight Between Styles & Nakamura

AJ Styles Shinsuke Nakamura
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Yet another straight up one-on-one match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura wouldn't cut it without some sort of stipulation to help things feel more violent. There's bad blood now between both former friends anyway, stemming from Shinsuke's apparent need to bash Styles in the balls every chance he gets.

In Saudi, AJ fought back by taking the double count out, throwing his foe over the announce desk and bashing Naka with chairs. Logic dictates then that a Street Fight of some sort is incoming, if not at Backlash then at Money In The Bank on 17 June.

There's room yet for WWE to squeeze a final showdown between the pair before moving onto something different in time for SummerSlam.

The main goal here must be to preserve AJ's title reign (he's the best man for the job on SmackDown right now) and keep Shinsuke's heel heat going strong so he too has something worthwhile this Summer. A 'No DQ' match ticks both boxes.

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