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The most exciting match in WWE history, the 30-man Royal Rumble, is just one month away and the Creative team will soon start building the iconic match.
The Royal Rumble match of 2018 saw Shinsuke Nakamura emerge as the winner, while Randy Orton had won the 2017 edition. The superstars of SmackDown Live seem to be getting the upper hand in the Royal Rumble and it seems it will be another superstar from the blue brand whose hand will be raised afterwards this time around.
SmackDown's AJ Styles is one of the favourites to win the match, not only because he has been the top superstar of the company for the past year, but it would also give the WWE a fantastic feud between AJ and Brock Lesnar heading into WrestleMania 35.
'AJ Styles vs Brock Lesnar II' is one of the matches that the WWE Universe has been waiting for, and so here are five reasons why this match-up should take place at WrestleMania 35.
#5 AJ Styles deserves to main event WrestleMania
It is no secret that the Universal Championship will be headlining WrestleMania 35 and with the Beast as the champion, there is no chance in hell that he would compete in a match at WrestleMania other than the main event. Now, AJ Styles has been a part of three WrestleManias where he has battled Chris Jericho, Shane McMahon and Shinsuke Nakamura.
Though his last WrestleMania match had the WWE Championship at stake, it was not allotted the main event spot. Styles is an extremely talented superstar and deserves to headline WWE's grandest event at least once in his career. Winning the Rumble and challenging the Beast is the only way Styles can get into the main event.
#4 Brock Lesnar can work mind-blowing matches with smaller opponents
How often do we say that Brock Lesnar had a great match inside the WWE ring? It is very rare and the one fact which emerges from the Beast's great matches are that he has always worked well with smaller opponents.
He pulled off a fantastic match at Survivor Series 2017 with AJ Styles and had a mesmerising match with the "new" Daniel Bryan this past year.
In the time period between the two matches, Lesnar battled Braun Strowman, Kane and Roman Reigns, but none of those matches actually delivered.
With WrestleMania 35 expected to be Lesnar's last in the WWE, it would be good if the Creative team booked him in a match against a smaller opponent.
AJ Styles has worked with the Beast earlier and thus, they can deliver a magnificent main event to the fans at the Grandest Stage of Them All.
#3 To allow Mustafa Ali or the Miz feud with Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship
Lately, WWE has moved Cruiserweight superstar Mustafa Ali to the SmackDown brand where he has been feuding with the WWE Champion Daniel Bryan.
Now, this signals one thing, and that is WWE is not considering Styles as Bryan's opponent anymore and are possibly moving him out of the WWE Championship picture.
This is a positive development for the SmackDown show as AJ Styles has been in the main event picture for a long time and it would be great to see a fresh face in the picture.
The WWE could allow Mustafa Ali to feud with Daniel Bryan till the Royal Rumble pay-per-view and then can insert the Miz in the title picture given that he has formed an alliance with Shane McMahon and also has his own share of differences with Bryan.
#2 The fans deserve a rematch between Brock Lesnar and AJ Styles
Paul Heyman's promo on the SmackDown before Survivor Series led to a WWE Championship match between Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles later that night which saw AJ losing his title to the Bearded G.O.A.T in a dramatic fashion. Now, had Heyman not appeared that night no one knows how things would have turned out to be at Survivor Series.
The fans were eagerly waiting for the rematch between the WWE Champion AJ Styles and the Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and the way WWE had built that match it looked like Styles would slay the Beast at the inter-brand warfare. However, that match never happened and the WWE Universe was deprived of the clash of the titans. Allowing Styles to win the Rumble match and challenge the Beast would give the WWE fans the match they wanted.
#1 To establish AJ Styles as the face of Monday Night RAW
After the exit of Roman Reigns, Monday Night RAW has been lacking a face superstar who can run the show. AJ Styles is one of the prime candidates to take over Reigns' position and winning the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 35 will be the first step in this process.
AJ possesses the mic skills and in-ring abilities which are needed to become WWE's top star and the Phenomenal One had done a fantastic job as the face of the blue brand. With SD Live having a star studded roster now, moving AJ to RAW would not affect the B show much.
Also, RAW is the flagship show of the company and it has been a long time since we saw AJ on RAW. Moving Styles to RAW will certainly freshen up things on the red brand and we may even get a future feud between AJ Styles and Finn Balor for the Universal title.
Do you think AJ Styles should win the Royal Rumble match and challenge Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship? Share your views in the comments box below.
