WWE EXTREME RULES 2018 LIVE

WWE Fan’s  Enjoy WWE Extreme Rules  2018 Live, WWE Extreme Rules 2018 is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and WWE Network event, produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on July 15, 2018 at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WWE Extreme Rules will begin at 7 p.m. ET with a kickoff show airing one hour earlier at 6 p.m. The event should go 3.5 hours as the dual-branded pay-per-view will likely have 10-12 matches on the card.

WWE Extreme Rules 2018 Match Card:

፠ The New Day vs. SAnitY (Tables Match on KICKOFF SHOW)

፠ Braun Strowman vs Kevin Owens (Steel Cage Match)

፠ Roman Reigns vs. Bobby Lashley

፠ Finn Bálor vs. "Constable" Baron Corbin

፠ Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Seth Rollins (30-Minute Iron Man match for the Intercontinental Championship)

፠ The Bludgeon Brothers (c) vs. Team Hell No (For the Smackdown Tag Championship)

፠ Deleters of Worlds (c) vs. The B-Team (For the Raw Tag Championship)

፠ Carmella (c) vs. Asuka (For the Smackdown Women's Championship with James Ellsworth suspended above the ring in a Shark Cage))

፠ Alexa Bliss (c) vs. Nia Jax (Extreme Rules match for the Raw Women's Championship)

፠ Jeff Hardy (c) vs Shinsuke Nakamura (For the United States Championship)

፠ AJ Styles (c) vs. Rusev (For the WWE Championship)

WWE Extreme Rules 2018 full match card and predictions:

Tables Match on KICKOFF SHOW:
The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods) vs SAnitY (Eric Young, Killian Dain and Alexander Wolfe)

 

Pancakes. Tables. It'll all be happening on the pre-show when The New Day take on a riled up SAnitY with a load of furniture involved.

This was the very last match added to the bill, but could end up being the most fun of the whole night.

SAnitY have been on the SDLive roster for a short while now but have yet to REALLY make an impact, so will be looking to do just that with the bodies of The New Day early on.

And The New Day have been off doing their own individual things recently with Gauntlet and MITB Ladder matches and the like, but haven't had much success.

It's been less than nine months since The New Day were tag champs (since they were dethroned by The Usos at Hell in a Cell), but it feels like longer.

With so many new kids on the block, they feel like they're a way away from the titles. They need a big win or some sort of moment to change things up, but it won't come this weekend.

PREDICTION: SAnitY (Eric Young, Killian Dain and Alexander Wolfe) [Tables Match]

WWE Raw Women's Championship:
Alexa Bliss (c) vs Nia Jax [Extreme Rules Match]

Alexa Bliss seemed to have snuck under the radar while most fans had their eyes on the Four Horsewomen, so well just remind you: Little Miss Bliss is a TWO-TIME WWE SmackDown Women's Champion and now also a THREE-TIME WWE Raw SmackDown Women's Champion. A five-time champ at the age of 26. Over 460 days and counting in total.

So Alexa Bliss is no pushover, despite the massive size difference between her and her former Team Rude best friend Nia Jax. After backing her diminutive pal, Nia finally broke through and won her first championship last month, only for Alexa to snatch it back via a same-night cash-in of her Money in the Bank briefcase.

That moment came during Nia's title defence against Ronda Rousey, whose reaction to the shenanigans left her with a 30-day ban from Raw. She'll be ringside as a paying punter, but we can't imagine that she won't make her presence felt.

But without a Briefcase of her own, the UFC Hall of Famer isn't walking out champion. And despite her antipathy towards Alexa, her hot-headedness will mean she won't be thinking about the consequences when she gets involved.The Extreme Rules stip precludes a DQ, but Alexa will still benefit.

PREDICTION: Alexa Bliss

WWE Championship:
AJ Styles (c) vs Rusev

After months of predicting that Shinsuke Nakamura would overthrow AJ Styles, here we are at Extreme Rules with AJ still standing oh-so-very tall (despite all those punches to the nadgers).

While Nak seemed to get endless title opportunities after his initial loss at WrestleMania 34, Rusev has absolutely earned this match, coming out on top in a Gauntlet qualifier.

You may quibble about the influence of the Bludgeon Brothers on Daniel Bryan's chances (more on that later), but who could begrudge the Bulgarian a bit of luck on Rusev Day?

But despite this match also taking place on Rusev Day, and the inevitable involvement of Aiden English at some point, we think that Rusev's luck will run out at Extreme Rules.

AJ Styles is slowly building an air of invincibility, and we've got a sneaking suspicion that he'll not only hold on to the title all the way through SummerSlam, but even until next year's Royal Rumble and maybe even beyond.

PREDICTION: AJ Styles

WWE Raw Tag Team Championship:
'Woken' Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt (c) vs The B-Team (Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel)

An intriguing match-up for all sorts of reasons. Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt have gelled remarkably well since their surprise union at WrestleMania 34. It feels as though they're hitting their stride without really being seriously challenged.

With Jeff Hardy still over on SmackDown, it's up to Bray to play a 'Woken' foil to his brother. Speaking of brothers, there's a startling fraternal similarity between the former Wyatt Family patriarch and Bo Dallas that we can't quite put our fingers on…

Ignoring such trifles, the question is whether the Deleter of Worlds' first real threat will come from this most unlikely of sources. The B-Team are on a roll, and have even had some joy against Hardy and Wyatt.

Despite that, we just can't see the B-Team coming away with the gold, much as we'd love the shock of it all. Wyatt and Hardy have just too much between them for Dallas and Axel.

PREDICTION: 'Woken' Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt

WWE SmackDown Women's Championship:
Carmella (c) vs Asuka 

Few would have imagined this a couple of years back. Enzo Amore sacked. Big Cass sacked. Their former hairdresser Carmella is your WWE SmackDown Women's Champion, having chased in on Charlotte Flair after a record 287 days holding the briefcase.

What's more, she shocked the world by defeating Asuka to retain the belt, with a little help from a returning James Ellsworth. The Chinless Wonder is the wildcard factor here.

As she's shown on SDLive, Asuka is more than capable of dealing with Ellsworth. But when she's one-on-one with Carmella, JE somehow manages to succeed in distracting her time and again.

But it's a lesson you'd hope that Asuka has now finally managed to learn, and with such a big prize up for grabs, she should be suitably prepared this time around for any further trouble from Ellsworth or anyone else.

PREDICTION: Asuka

WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship:
 The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper and Rowan) (c) vs Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane)

Well, we didn't see this coming. The Bludgeon Brothers had been happily bludgeoning allcomers since their post-Wyatt Family rebirth, and even started a fight with ex-SDLive GM Daniel Bryan, prompting the return of Kane.

Team Hell No was the unlikeliest of reunions, and not only because the last time both members were on active service they were busy trundling each other around on forklift trucks and the like.

In a parallel universe, Kane is running for Mayor, and as a Republican in GOP country he's appropriately the Red hot favourite. Surely he can't be Mayor AND Tag Team champ at the same time?

Well, the election's not till after SummerSlam, which feels far enough in the future to not be a distraction. That said, we can't help but feel that Team Hell No just haven't been on the same page long enough to beat a machine as well-oiled as The Bludgeon Brothers.

PREDICTION: The Bludgeon Brothers

WWE United States Championship:
Jeff Hardy (c) vs Shinsuke Nakamura

 This has to be one of the hottest match-ups on a pretty exciting card. Jeff Hardy made his return alongside his brother Matt at WrestleMania, but after he picked up an injury Matt went his own Woken way.

Jeff returned with a bang to become US Champ and get a little Woken himself, while his brother buddied up with Bray Wyatt to get tag gold over on the Red brand. Now, he's facing Shinsuke Nakamura, still on the dark side after his war with AJ Styles.

Nakamura has presumably recovered from being bitten by a police dog (no, really), but has he recovered from a series of devastating losses against his long-time rival for the WWE Championship?

Despite our repeated failure in predicting he'd win the big one, we're suckers for punishment. We're going to go for Shinsuke to finally win some main roster gold, even if he has to use every dirty trick in his book to do it.

PREDICTION: Shinsuke Nakamura

WWE Intercontinental Championship:
Dolph Ziggler (c) vs Seth Rollins [30-minute Iron Man Match]

Without wanting to put a jinx on this, it has MOTN contender written all over it. Dolph Ziggler's bizarre sacrifice of the US Title a few months back built up more excitement around him than any time since Sting dragged his broken body as a prop during that Survivor Series WWE debut.

If it felt like that promise was squandered by his limp appearance at number 30 in this year's Royal Rumble, it's been recaptured by his unlikely partnership with Drew McIntyre. For his part, the former 3MB man has gone from WWE reject to indie superstar, NXT Champ to your new old next big thing on the main roster.

While his return to the light side was a little unconvincing at first, Seth Rollins has flipped and dived his way back into our hearts in recent months, and as a fighting custodian of the IC title became THE highlight of Monday Night Raw.

This match promises chess-like strategy, thrills, spills and surprises. What seems certain is that McIntyre won't sit by idly if Seth gets the upper hand early on. But despite the involvement of the Scotsman, we think that Rollins will regain the belt to be a fighting champion once more… and with Roman Reigns tied up with Bobby Lashley, we'd absolutely love to see Dean Ambrose evening up the numbers.

PREDICTION: Seth Rollins

Roman Reigns vs Bobby Lashley

Originally, these two men were to be the first of a clutch of wrestlers duking it out for a shot at Brock Lesnar and his WWE Universal Championship. The Beast's continued and relatively unexplained absence (Paul Heyman's excuses don't quite cut it) means that currently there's very little at stake here.

Lashley is coming off the back of a relatively lacklustre return and a forgettable feud with Sami Zayn. Reigns is still dividing audiences the way he has continued to do since that Royal Rumble win.

For all his ups and downs in the past few years in the WWE, one thing that Reigns has shown is that he can shrug off the occasional loss. Lashley on the other hand has precious little momentum, and desperately needs to build on his win over Zayn.

We think that extra bit of drive and hunger will make all the difference, and the arrogance of Reigns will prove his downfall, as Bobby Lashley gets a relatively shock win. Oh, and expect Brock Lesnar to pop by on the night, similar to his recent UFC appearance, to set up a SummerSlam match with Bobby.

PREDICTION: Bobby Lashley

Finn Bálor vs Baron Corbin

The much-underrated Baron Corbin is on a roll. An excellent haircut and great role as The Constable of Monday Night Raw has piqued interest in the football-playing-hard-hitting-indie-hating-End-of-Days-ing wrestler.

Finn Bálor has proved in the last six months or so that no matter where he is on the card or what he's fighting for, that he is, and will always be, absolutely OVER with the WWE Universe, and for good reason.

There's not a vast amount at stake here, for sure, but two Superstars who are in a very solid place at the moment going at it to prove their superiority with a dash of classic big guy vs little guy, athlete vs indie star underpinning it.

We're going to opt for Constable Corbin to edge this one, if only because of his lack of reluctance to twist and bend the rules to get exactly what he wants. This won't be the last of this feud though, and we fully expect Bálor to learn from a defeat here and come back swinging and winning.

PREDICTION: Baron Corbin

Braun Strowman vs Kevin Owens [Steel Cage Match]

Poor Kevin Owens, many of you have been saying in recent weeks. The former champ has spent the last month or so running away from Braun Strowman, not that it's done him any good.

So what does Kurt Angle do? He sticks him in a match where running away is all-but impossible.

But for those of you shedding a tear for Kevin Owens and asking what has he, what has he, what has he done to deserve this, a quick refresher is in order.

He BETRAYED Sami Zayn, BETRAYED Kevin Owens and tried to MDK Daniel Bryan. Braun Strowman may not be your typical good guy, but really he's not a bad guy either.

He's an Avenging Angel, meting out some overdue natural justice. The only problem is, Braun isn't always that smart.

If he was clever, he'd be banging Kurt Angle's door of its hinges to get Brock Lesnar back in the building. Instead, he's wasting his time and his briefcase year fannying about with Kevin Owens.

For that reason we predict a surprise win for Kevin Owens, probably by having Braun fling him right through the cage on to the floor outside.

PREDICTION: Kevin Owens