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#2 AJ Styles (c) vs Samoa Joe - WWE Championship

Enter captio — An unexpected match at an unexpected place

Who would've thought just five years ago that AJ Styles and Samoa Joe would be in WWE, battling for the WWE Championship in the second biggest show of the year? It's happened, and it's real.

With AJ Styles being the most dominant WWE champion in SmackDown history, he faces his biggest threat yet in a new yet familiar rival: Samoa Joe.

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Joe has won the psychological warfare so far, using Styles' family to try to get into his head. With the battle more mental than physical up to this point. But Styles is out to prove why he's been such a dominant champion for the blue brand.

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Some of the big names interviewed by Rohit are AJ Styles, Jinder Mahal, Jimmy Uso and Sasha Banks. Some of his popular weekly features include RAW Preview, "X things Subtly told us" and "Wrestling rumors we hope are true and those we hope aren't".

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