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

As of today, we're officially just four weeks away from WrestleMania 34. If you've got a special wrestling-themed advent calendar, then it's time to get out (and perhaps also find a new hobby).

But, before we head off to New Orleans for the Showcase of the Immortals, we've got to sit through Fastlane, a show WWE decided to add to its pay-per-view schedule a couple of years ago for reasons that we are still no closer to knowing.

The main problem with Fastlane - both this year and for the previous three - is that it tends to feel less like an event in its own right than it does a prelude to 'Mania. Any big matches the company has planned are naturally going to be saved for the biggest show of the year, meaning this one is filled mostly with throwaway encounters.

But that doesn't mean the rumour-mill stops turning. In fact, with so much mystery still surrounding, for example, the fates of John Cena and Asuka going into the Grandest Stage of Them All, there's plenty for us to foolishly get our hopes about for tonight.

Fans of Jinder Mahal (all four of them) will have noticed that their boy is currently not scheduled to compete at Fastlane, having been left out of the US Championship clash between former foes Bobby Roode and Randy Orton.

That, as we have come to learn, doesn't necessarily preclude him from being involved, however, and some are predicting that the Modern Day Maharaja will interfere in the bout in a bid to help bolster his chances of a match at WrestleMania.

There's logic here. Both Orton and Roode are, for the time being, faces; a match dynamic for which it is naturally difficult to book a satisfactory finish. Ending it with a DQ therefore seems like the ideal get out.

It would also nicely mirror what's happening with the Intercontinental Championship over on Raw. Rather than one-on-one feuds, the midcard titles, it seems, are going to be used as ways to shoehorn as many wrestlers as possible onto the card on April 8.