Yeah, so Dwayne is back… and he’s here to announce that New Orleans will be hosting next year’s Wrestlemania. I’m sure that will make Ricky Starks Saints very, very happy and I hope he gets a spot on the card. Sadly, Dwayne decides to call out Cody, says that he wants his soul, and he’ll expect an answer at this coming Saturday’s Elimination Chamber PPV. So we went from Dwayne and Cody being antagonistic to being buddy buddy and back to being antagonistic again. Will Cody refuse Dwayne’s offer and continue his babyfacing ways? Or will we get that Homelander Cody that people want? Or maybe this is how we’re getting JOHN CENA to turn heel by having him be Dwayne’s Corporate Hollywood stooge to go after the title at Mania 41?
I guess if you wanted to add some last-minute intrigue to whatever Cody was going to do for Mania, this is a way to do it. It’d be nice if this shit actually made some semblance of sense instead of whatever the fuck Dwayne is doing – or is this one of those twenty steps ahead things that he likes to tease? I remember being twenty steps ahead – it’s usually not bad until you realize that you forgot what the first ten steps were in the first place. I’m not sure if this is supposed to get me more excited for Mania or not, but either way, I’m not up for watching Moana or whatever that movie is called in any capacity… not that I’d need much to be ambivalent over; it is a Disney product, after all.
As for the rest of the show… admittedly, I didn’t watch the whole thing because three hour Smackdowns can go fly a kite (this is allegedly supposed to be a temporary thing; we’ll see.) I did catch some of the main-event six-man that saw Jacob Fatu accidentally kick that Solo guy, so chances are we’re building towards an eventual match between those two, which would be nice to see. I don’t see how much more out of this Bloodline juice you can get now that Roman is doing other stuff with other people while all you’re left with are the B-team members that nobody really cares about… and the sooner that we can get Jacob Fatu away from those B-team folks, the better off he’ll be.
Oh, and now Kevin Owens is camping out in front of Sami’s house… because that’s a thing he does now… cool.
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