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It should be treated like Savage v Flair at VIII in terms of timing and place on the show
Maybe this is just the cynic in me, but I fear the the WWE won’t treat this match to be as big as it should be. In reality AJ and Shinsuke should have at minimum a 30 min match, and grand entrances on top of it. It honestly should main event, but it won’t. As we all know this is the Roman beats Lesnar show, it is what it has been and what it always will be. So I would not be surprised if AJ and Nakamura go for 15 min in the first 2 hours of the show. They could very well be the opening match so the WWE can distance them as far from Reigns as possible. If they go on in front Reigns V. Lesnar, it will expose that match as the plodding mess it inevitably will be.
It just feels the WWE does not feel this match is as important as everyone else does. As Far as importance it ranks behind: Reigns/Lesnar, Shane/Bryan, anything involving Jason Jordan, the Kevin and Sami relationship, Rhonda Rousey, However HHH is going to be involved this year, Braun Strowman, John Cena, then maybe Styles and Nakamura. In the end the WWE is saying, “here is a match you want, but remember its on our terms.”
There is no way this should main event the biggest show of the year. I want to see this match as much as anybody, but who outside of the hardcore fans know who Nakamura is? The casual fan will look at that and go…that’s the main event?……Lesnar is main event even though it won’t be a technical masterpiece. Actually the only ones that are big enough names to be WM main event material are Lesnar, Taker, Cena, HHH, Orton and maybe Styles, Miz, Kane, and Reigns but that is stretching it.
Yeah there’s no way this should close. One of the last 2/3 matches though, absolutely.
Or WWE is trolling all of us and Nakamura knees his head off for the win ten seconds in.