2018 WWE Half-Year Report: Most Improved Superstar

#1 Rusev

Rusev will face AJ Styles for the WWE Championship

Rusev’s matches have always been of a good standard, but has anybody improved as a character quite as much as “The Lion of Bulgaria” in 2018? We don’t think so!

The former United States champion had become a serial loser on SmackDown Live following his move to the blue brand in 2017, with his most notable defeats coming against John Cena and Randy Orton, and he seemed a long way away from entering the WWE Championship picture.

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Fast forward to mid-2018 and, with the ‘Rusev Day’ phenomenon still going strong, he is now set to face AJ Styles in a match for the WWE title at Extreme Rules.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav