8 Last-Minute WWE Backlash 2018 Rumours You Need To Know

4. No Titles Change Hands

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Despite six championship belts being up for grabs during WWE's soft-diplomacy sojourn to Saudi Arabia, not one of them switched owners, in a show of booking conservatism rather befitting the country. That looks set to continue in New Jersey, as insider tattle-tale has it that every belt is set to be retained.

It's not hard to believe, as many of the current champs only claimed their prizes within the last month, and there are viable get-out clauses in the marginal cases of Carmella vs. Charlotte Flair (a pair of annoying Aussies) and AJ vs. Nakamura (a steel-plated codpiece). The late addition of a cruiserweight title match could scupper this proposition, but until that happens, the odds seem pretty good.

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