3 reasons why WWE is booking Finn Balor vs Shinsuke Nakamura for the Intercontinental Championship

WWE has proved once again that the Creative team is always one step ahead of what the internet wrestling community thinks.

In the latest WWE NEWS, No one predicted Lacey Evans to be the special guest referee of the Universal Championship match at WWE Stomping Grounds. There were no rumors of the Undertaker coming to the aid of Roman Reigns on RAW, and nobody expected Samoa Joe to take out the WWE Champion, Kofi Kingston, last Monday.

The same goes for the surprise backstage confrontation between The King of Strong Style, Shinsuke Nakamura ,and Intercontinental Champion, Finn Balor.

This week was full of surprises and it seems like WWE has been trying hard to improve its product before SmackDown switches to FOX.

However, after Nakamura confronted Balor, the WWE Universe could not understand the reasons behind the move. Well, here are the 3 possible reasons why -

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#3 To ensure the Wells Fargo Center does not have any empty seats

WWE doesn’t want Extreme Rules to have poor ticket sales like StompingGrounds did #Raw

— Ezman (@ezinstinctman) June 25, 2019

The previous pay-per-view event of the company, WWE Stomping Grounds, generated poor ticket sales which forced the cameras to focus only on the areas which were packed. The same happened at WWE Super Showdown. So, in order to ensure that WWE Extreme Rules takes place in front of a jam-packed crowd at the Wells Fargo Center, WWE are going all out (pun intended).

They brought back The Undertaker and put him in a tag team match. To give more solidity to the match card, WWE is booking a Intercontinental Championship match which is bound to deliver.

Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura are two of the best in-ring technicians to have stepped foot in the squared circle. Their bout will draw a lot of fans to the arena hence, WWE has initiated this feud to attract the fans to the arena.

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#2 To surprise the WWE Universe

Looks like The #KingOfStrongStyle @ShinsukeN has his 👀 set on @FinnBalor’s #ICTitle! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/oiBIicHgFZ

— WWE (@WWEIndia) June 26, 2019

As mentioned ahead, WWE has been able to surprise the fans for the first time in a long time this week. Last week, whenever someone asked who would be Finn Balor's next challenger, the fans would pick either Randy Orton, Ali, Buddy Murphy or Shelton Benjamin. But, WWE went with Shinsuke Nakamura to prove all guesses wrong.

Now, if you have a look at the Extreme Rules match card, we may have an Intercontinental Championship match between the former NXT Champions. Besides, we may also get a United States Championship battle featuring AJ Styles and Ricochet. And, WWE has already announced a dream tag team match where Roman Reigns and The Undertaker will team up to take on Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre.

The WWE Universe criticized the Creative team for booking rematches at WWE Stomping Grounds. So, the team is under immense pressure to deliver the goods at Extreme Rules. Though they have booked some rematches, these surprises have inflicted fresh blood in the event's match card.

The wrestling fans love surprises and this confrontation was just another way of astonishing them.

#1 Rusev's unclear future

I’m not an employee .... https://t.co/b9N6XQ9wVz

— Here comes THE PUSH (@RusevBUL) June 20, 2019

The biggest reason why WWE has booked Shinsuke Nakamura to be the next challenger for the Intercontinental Championship is that the Creative team wants the King of Strong Style back in the singles division. Nakamura had joined the tag team division of SmackDown Live earlier this year. The Japanese Superstar joined forces with Rusev and the team even competed for the tag team titles at WrestleMania 35.

They fought a few matches post The Show of Shows, with their last televised match taking place on 16th April.

The fact that SmackDown's tag team division is in dire need of tag teams, yet the company has booked Nakamura to return to the singles division indicates that something is wrong with the former NXT champion's tag team partner.

Rusev has taken a lot of jabs on WWE on Twitter and even Dave Meltzer recently stated that he won't be surprised if the Bulgarian Brute leaves WWE soon.

Thus, WWE has booked this feud just to bring The Artist back in the singles division, and booking him in a title feud with someone like Finn Balor is the best way of doing so.