On the eve of WWE's Saturday Night's Main Event, the Delta Center in Salt Lake City became a theater of escalating stakes, where athletic spectacle and personal grievance intertwined in the way only professional wrestling can arrange. Ilja Dragunov defended his United States Championship with the kind of match that reminds audiences why the form endures, while Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre transformed a contractual formality into something rawer and more human — a confrontation that crossed from performance into genuine animosity. When McIntyre invoked Rhodes' daughters and then drove him thro
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