Rusev Isn’t Leaving WWE

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On Wednesday, WWE announced Rusev would be wrestling The Undertaker in a Casket Match at the Greatest Royal Rumble event on April 27 in Saudi Arabia. This was quite the surprise for a number of reasons, not least of which the fact that Undertaker had just beat John Cena in under three minutes at WrestleMania 34 while Rusev lost his bid to win the United States Champion in a Fatal 4-Way Match.

The “Bulgarian Brute”’s response to this was both to outright tell “The Deadman” to “bury me softly, brother” and give an interview to TMZ alongside his wife, Lana, that seemed to upset ‘Taker’s wife, Michelle McCool.

In the case of the TMZ interview, neither Rusev or Lana said “crush his old a$$” in regards to The Undertaker.

After all this, WWE announced that Rusev was out of the match and replaced by Chris Jericho. WWE’s explanation for the change is that Lana refuses to allow Rusev to compete in a Casket Match.

Rusev then scrubbed WWE off his Twitter account, which has fans speculating that his time with the company is coming to an end.

Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated asked WWE if Rusev and they said the rumors are not true. He will compete in the 50-Man Greatest Royal Rumble Match.

Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline added on Friday that “all the Rusev stuff is storyline.”