5 key talking points from WWE SmackDown Live (20 February, 2018)

#1 No Rusev or Shinsuke Nakamura on the show

As WrestleMania 34 gets closer and closer, every WWE fan wants their favourite Superstars to feature in high-profile storylines in February and March so they have a better chance of making the main match card at “The Show of Shows”.

One of the most popular performers in all of WWE right now is Rusev but, once again, he didn’t even appear on this week’s SmackDown Live and he was used in a dark match instead, teaming with Aiden English to face The Usos.

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As for 2018 Royal Rumble winner Shinsuke Nakamura, he hasn’t been involved in a single televised match in February and, like Rusev, he was left off Tuesday’s show entirely.

Nakamura will be fine (he’s already booked his WWE title match at ‘Mania, after all) but if WWE is to capitalise on the phenomenon that is ‘Rusev Day’, they’d better give him more television time between now and WrestleMania!

In case you missed us the past 2 weeks on #SmackDownLIVE here we are. Your chants are “DULY” noted pic.twitter.com/JNPl2im4c4
— Rusev (@RusevBUL) February 21, 2018

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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 Nishant Jayaram