WWE Overview Royal Rumble: Rusev vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

US Championship Game

Rusev (c) against Shinsuke Nakamura

The red, white and blue belt has not been part of Tuesday's television for some time. Then agrees that Royal Rumble the map before the a la carte map begins in Phoenix Chase Field on Sunday, January 27th.

The road to Royal Rumble

On the episode of Smack down broadcast on Christmas Day, Rusev ended a five-month reign on Shinsuke Nakamura, an American title that included … a few times with former champion Jeff Hardy and occasional promotions on something called "Nakamerica". But do not focus on the negative. It was after all the day of Rusev!

It called for the party! What went well until Shinsuke arrived and ruined everything. Rusev's wife, Lana, helped the new champion to defend himself from Nak's attack, but when the Japanese superstar was leveled by a machka kick, Mrs. Rusev was crushed:

A week later, an angry Bulgarian went in search of the artist after accusing Lana of being caught in an exchange of fire. Rusev should have listened to the late Grand Admiral Akbar, although …

And that's all. They have not been on TV since January 8 and even social media has been silent. Although Lana may be pregnant or become a new owner.

What is at stake?

The belt, whatever its value. This is clearly not a priority on Tuesday nights, given the number of times it has been left or out of the script in the last six months. Should one or the other of the men really want to be scripted to win it at this point? They may have a better chance of spending time on screen during an untitled quarrel.

It's a pretty shocking state of affairs, or at least if we did not have the slightest evidence that WWE is just as good at cooling people down as it is heating them up. Nakamura won the Rumble last January and his WrestleMania Heel turn had fans more interested in him than at any other time since signing with The 'E. Rusev started last year's Royal Men's Battle and lasted more than 30 minutes in the match. The team / gimmick of the Rusev Day was as popular as one can get a medal card player.

Now, here they are practically afterwards on the blue mark and the Royal Rumble map.

Chances are it will be an entertaining match. We have not seen them interact since January 8th, and one of the two benefits of only one of the two pre-show matches of two hours is that they will not be in a hurry.

But it would not be shocking for one or both men to participate in the Mania of the Royal Battle of the Battle of André-le-Géant. And considering what they were doing in the multi-elimination multi-elimination game of this show last year?

It's a fall.