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Old 12-29-2016, 02:10 PM   #1
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WWE.com's Top 25 WWE Matches of 2016
WWE's website recently released their annual "Best WWE Matches" list of the year for 2016.


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It’s been quite the year. We got a Brand Extension, five new championships, a brand-new show, Heath Slater got his above-ground pool and those good brothers from Japan finally made their way to WWE. But before we ring in 2017, it’s time to take stock of the year that was and review the best competition WWE had to offer. WWE.com editors (and Superstars) present our picks for the 25 best matches of 2016, all of which you can see for free on the award-winning WWE Network.
  1. The Revival vs. #DIY — 2-out-of-3-Falls NXT Tag Team Championship Match (NXT TakeOver: Toronto)
  2. Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NXT TakeOver: Dallas)
  3. Charlotte Flair vs. Sasha Banks — WWE Women’s Championship Match (Raw; July 25)
  4. Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens (WWE Battleground)
  5. Kota Ibushi vs. Cedric Alexander (Cruiserweight Classic; Aug. 10)
  6. AJ Styles vs. Dean Ambrose vs. John Cena — Triple Threat WWE Championship Match (No Mercy)
  7. Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins – No Disqualification WWE Universal Title Match (Raw, Nov. 21)
  8. Charlotte Flair vs. Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch — Triple Threat WWE Women’s Championship Match (WrestleMania 32)
  9. John Cena vs. AJ Styles (SummerSlam)
  10. The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler — Title vs. Career Intercontinental Championship Match (No Mercy)
  11. Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa (Cruiserweight Classic, Aug. 3)
  12. Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles — Extreme Rules WWE Championship Match (Extreme Rules)
  13. The Revival vs. American Alpha — NXT Tag Team Championship Match (NXT TakeOver: Dallas)
  14. Finn Bálor vs. Seth Rollins — WWE Universal Championship Match (SummerSlam)
  15. Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte Flair — Hell in a Cell Raw Women’s Championship Match (Hell in a Cell)
  16. The Miz vs. Sami Zayn vs. Cesaro vs. Kevin Owens — Fatal 4-Way Intercontinental Championship Match (Extreme Rules)
  17. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins — WWE Championship Match (Money in the Bank)
  18. Dolph Ziggler vs. Triple H (Raw, March 14)
  19. The New Day vs. Y2AJ — WWE Tag Team Championship Match (Raw, March 7)
  20. Asuka vs. Bayley — NXT Women’s Championship Match (NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II)
  21. Chris Jericho vs. AJ Styles (Fastlane)
  22. Dean Ambrose vs. Kevin Owens vs. Chris Jericho vs. Cesaro vs. Sami Zayn vs. Alberto Del Rio — Money in the Bank Ladder Match (Money in the Bank)
  23. The New Day vs. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson — Raw Tag Team Championship Match (Raw, Sept. 26)
  24. Team Raw (Kevin Owens, Roman Reigns, Chris Jericho, Seth Rollins & Braun Strowman) vs. Team SmackDown LIVE (AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Shane McMahon, Bray Wyatt & Randy Orton) — 5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Men’s Elimination Match (Survivor Series)
  25. Triple H vs. Dean Ambrose — WWE Championship Match (WWE Roadblock)

Agree/Disagree and any possible suggestions on matches that should have made or been replaced on their list?

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Old 12-29-2016, 02:16 PM   #2
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1 and 2 is a coin flip for me, loved them both and could've accepted either as #1.

I'd have definitely had Styles/Cena ahead of the Styles/Cena/Ambrose triple threat.

Don't really see what was so good about Dolph Ziggler vs. Triple H.

Asuka/Bayley I'd have put a bit higher.

New Day vs. Gallows and Anderson from a random ep of Raw is a random as fuck choice.

Otherwise a pretty great list.
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Old 12-29-2016, 02:19 PM   #3
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I didnt read AJ vs Ambrose at TLC. THat was a great match except the Ellsworth bit.
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Old 12-29-2016, 02:28 PM   #4
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That's a good call. I'd have definitely put that in ahead of New Days/Gallows and Anderson.
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Old 12-29-2016, 02:33 PM   #5
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Had no idea Triple H wrestled Dolph Ziggler.
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Zayn/Owens being the best WWE PPV match is cool. I was there and it was amazing live.
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Old 12-29-2016, 05:26 PM   #7
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Number 8 has no business being that high
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Old 12-29-2016, 05:36 PM   #8
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Neither of the womens matches do. I'm all for taking the division morw seriously, and the increase in quality, but come on. Neither of those matches can touch anything else in the top ten.
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Yeah. I think people overrate the womens matches nowadays. Some of the NXT matches over the past couple years have been really good but that WrestleMania match was very overrated.

I watched a couple more main roster women's matches since the "revolution" that people were hyping up and it was just like "... Yeah. It was great for a women's match. AKA about as good as a 'good but not great' match between two dudes."
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Women's Triple Threat at Mania was good but if they really wanted one match to rep the event, the IC ladder match was a lot better.
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Old 12-29-2016, 08:19 PM   #11
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If they have an IC ladder match every year at WM it devalues it. So, doesn't matter if it's great. It should have been Owens Vs. Zayn one on one.
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Then how do we get to Ryder/Miz
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Old 12-29-2016, 09:15 PM   #13
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Lol..."it doesn't matter if it's great"

It's MATCH OF THE FUCKING YEAR! The award is entirely based on whether or not the match was great.
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Old 12-30-2016, 05:44 AM   #14
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Finn Bálor vs. Seth Rollins — WWE Universal Championship Match (SummerSlam)

Pretty average at best. Started out OK, but you can tell Finn is injured as they go into the stretch of the match.
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Old 12-30-2016, 02:42 PM   #15
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To be fair, that is a reasonably decent and honest list from WWE. Half expected the top five to be full of Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Triple H etc.
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Old 12-30-2016, 03:57 PM   #16
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Yeah, really good list for WWE. I love that DIY are on there twice. Two amazing matches. Glad they showed love to Alexander and Ibushi too.
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Old 12-30-2016, 05:46 PM   #17
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WWE.com's "best matches of the year" list have been "good" the past few years.
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Old 12-31-2016, 10:40 AM   #18
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Yeah they seem to be able to take Reigns' cock out of their mouths long enough to make a proper list - so that's good.
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Old 12-31-2016, 11:25 AM   #19
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Anyone remember if this Triple H vs Dolph Ziggler match was any good or is this just Triple H fellating himself?
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I remember thinking it was good......
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Think Triple H vs. Dean Ambrose was better, though

Not that I can say for sure as I don't really remember either other than that I enjoyed them both.
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If they have an IC ladder match every year at WM it devalues it. So, doesn't matter if it's great. It should have been Owens Vs. Zayn one on one.
Money in the Bank occurring every year at Mania devalued it so much it became it's own PPV. Royal Rumble happens every year and it still a big event. If a match was good it doesn't matter if it happens every year or not. It's not like they have the same match every year.
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The one on Raw? It was good. It was his like only match after winning the title before Mania.
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Money in the Bank occurring every year at Mania devalued it so much it became it's own PPV. Royal Rumble happens every year and it still a big event. If a match was good it doesn't matter if it happens every year or not. It's not like they have the same match every year.
Can you list the Money in the Bank Winners in order? And can you also tell me which ones went on to become major stars in the same tier as Edge because of Money in the Bank? It might seem like shifting posts, but honestly, I can name more people that MITB has hurt than it has helped. It usually always leads to a World Title, but that has done damage to those belts as well. I'd be completely fine with Money in the Bank taking a hiatus until people miss it enough for it to make its return someday when there is someone you really want to elevate with the briefcase that suits it, instead of forcing a guy into the gimmick.
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WWE.com's "best matches of the year" list have been "good" the past few years.
Pretty much this. Well phrased.

I'm disappointed by the lack of Cesaro. Not because there are matches that I think have been overlooked, but because he should have more on there. Truth be told, Seth Rollins should too. I mean, just given their ring reputation.

I'm hoping for a better year in 2017 for Cesaro. It'll be a rocky start giving the interest vacuum that Sheamus is and their current arrangement, but at some point they will probably split and I hope to see Cesaro involved with the likes of Shinsuke Nakamura and Sami Zayn at some point in the year. Hopefully then he can get some emotional investment behind what he does.

DIY popping up all over the list with each other and against each other. I can see them doing the same in 2017 and having a main roster feud on RAW that probably doesn't capture imaginations in quite the same way, but will be good from an in-ring perspective. I'm worried for The Revival, who I worry will be set up to fail because of some in the back being a bit disenchanted by them, and they'll just be two face-pulling heels that trade wins with The Golden Truth and everyone will ask "Why isn't it working?".

It'd be nice if the WWE gave little bonuses to the talent that manage to get their names on this list. A sort of "Kip Frey bonus."
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Can you list the Money in the Bank Winners in order? And can you also tell me which ones went on to become major stars in the same tier as Edge because of Money in the Bank? It might seem like shifting posts, but honestly, I can name more people that MITB has hurt than it has helped. It usually always leads to a World Title, but that has done damage to those belts as well. I'd be completely fine with Money in the Bank taking a hiatus until people miss it enough for it to make its return someday when there is someone you really want to elevate with the briefcase that suits it, instead of forcing a guy into the gimmick.
Lets see...

Edge won, cashed in successfully
Kennedy won, lost the case to Edge, who cashed in successfully
Punk won, cashed in successfully
Punk won for a second time, cashed in successfully against Jeff Hardy
Swagger won, cashed in successfully versus Jericho
Daniel Bryan won the SD case, cashed in successfully versus Mark Henry
Ziggler won, cashed in successfully vs. Del Rio day after Mania
Kane won, cashed in on Mysterio on the same night
Sandow won, unsuccessful cashing in on Cena
Rollins won, cashed in on Brock during Mania main event
Ambrose won, defeated Rollins for the belt

There's a few missing.
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RVD won cashed in on Cena
The Miz on Orton.
Del Rio Successful on Punk
Cena no success on punk
Orton success Dbry.
Sheamus on Floman Drains.

Daniel cashed in on the big show not henry.

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I know where to find the list, but that wasn't the point.

I'm sort of in agreement with Noid about the diminishing returns from MITB; there's a case to say it hinders progression to the main event rather than enhances.
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I'd say it helped more when there was more than one major title. So, it could be a success again. Not all eggs in one basket so now they can take a chance. Which is what they technically did do after the fact with Ambrose. It turned out pretty good for them. Sheamus was the worst successful cash in ever the year before.
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I'd say it helped more when there was more than one major title. So, it could be a success again. Not all eggs in one basket so now they can take a chance. Which is what they technically did do after the fact with Ambrose. It turned out pretty good for them. Sheamus was the worst successful cash in ever the year before.
Hmmm. I don't know. I think having 2 briefcase holders/matches devalues each. I wouldn't mind them making MITB a 5th dual-branded PPV and having the one match with combatants from both brands. This could even lead to a bit more depth in motivation; someone like Miz, who feels he's being victimised by Daniel Bryan on SDL could see the MITB briefcase as a way to switch brands. Plus, it adds to the surprise element of which brand/title will the winner end up on?
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If they do MITB again I really don't want two briefcases. I used to love the MITB concept but it's just so played out at this point.
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I like the idea of one briefcase with the option to cash in on either belt.
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Yeah, that gives you a convenient way to have someone switch brands without needing to do a trade or have some random thing happening like Jack Swagger's contract expiring a fucking month after the draft.
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If they do MITB again I really don't want two briefcases. I used to love the MITB concept but it's just so played out at this point.
Current rumor is just one MitB case coming back since this year its planned to be exclusive to Smackdown although wouldn't put it past the WWE to go right back to 2 cases within a year or two.

All 2 MitB cases did was make the WWE really lazy when it came to building up future champions since they either gave the MitB cases to people not ready or half-assed their big push prior to winning the belt.
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RVD won cashed in on Cena
The Miz on Orton.
Del Rio Successful on Punk
Cena no success on punk
Orton success Dbry.
Sheamus on Floman Drains.

Daniel cashed in on the big show not henry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_...k_ladder_match

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Well, let's go through:

* Edge I will give you. His "Ultimate Opportunist" moniker basically came from this. He was floundering as a mid-card heel act, essentially forced to turn when his face return wasn't working out. This got him from the mid-card into a position where he was clearly working towards the main event goal. We also didn't completely understand the rules of how a Money in the Bank cash-in could work. The post-Elimination Chamber title match was a nice surprise and made logical sense at the time (although it arguably should have been the only instance of this sort of cash-in for the sake of preserving a semblance of legitimate competition). 1-0.

* Rob Van Dam won and used it to capture the WWE Title. This was the pinnacle of his career and it all came crashing down after this. It was arguably a bit late for RVD. Still, given the emotion of the match where Van Dam won the belt and that plans were to build around him at some point, I'll put this one in the pro column for the gimmick. I want to be generous with this. 2-0.

* Mr. Kennedy won, but let's not pretend he went on to become a successful main event story. 2-1.

* CM Punk won next. He cashed in successfully, but after a fairly lackluster title run, they took the belt off Punk and gave it to Jericho who was outperforming him. 2-2.

* CM Punk won again. Although his cash-in was extremely successful creatively, CM Punk's World Heavyweight Title reigns were largely forgotten amidst his later runs with the WWE Title. They almost...didn't count. Since I am going for who really became a star with MITB directly, I want to actually mark this one down, just because after this Punk ended up forming the Straight-Edge Society and was used to put over Rey Mysterio and Big Show in a 3-on-1 Handicap Match where he had the edge at a SummerSlam. He wouldn't really become a true main eventer in the WWE until he cut that promo in 2011, almost two years after this. I thought he was successful, but the WWE obviously didn't. But you know what, I'll be generous again and call this a positive because Punk eventually became a true main eventer after this. 3-2.

* Jack Swagger won the 10-man Ladder Match at WrestleMania XXVI. Yeah. 3-3.

* The Miz won the RAW Money in the Bank. Look, I know people love The Miz now, but it's taken a long time for him to get this comfortable. I personally enjoyed his title reign arguably more than I should have, but it bombed and there's a reason Miz never got the belt again. 3-4.

* Kane. He cashed in and got a more serious push as The Devil's Favorite Demon, and it was a nice "thank you" run for Kane, despite him still being around six fucking years later. Kane was the sort of talent you could have pushed towards the main event without this title however, and it didn't really launch him anywhere new. 3-5.

* Alberto Del Rio for RAW. This was damage control after giving him the Royal Rumble and not following through. His title reigns were underwhelming, to say the least. Del Rio may have some worth to Hispanic markets, but he got very flat very fast. I don't think you can really call him a WWE success story, given that he has now won four World Titles and is slumming it on the independent scene like he was Paul London. 3-6.

* Daniel Bryan. This is a case very similar to CM Punk's where Bryan's World Heavyweight Title reign (and actually some of his WWE Title reigns) basically got forgotten for his WWE World Heavyweight Title win at WrestleMania XXX. It was basically treated as a mid-card title win for Bryan. I could very easily make the case that this one shouldn't count as a "star-making" moment, given that Bryan only really got truly over once he dropped the belt in however many seconds to Sheamus at WrestleMania in the opening "match," but given that he went on to become a success story, of sorts, I'll be positive and give this a passing grade. 4-6.

* John Cena won it from RAW. You cannot possibly cite this as an event which made Cena. He was the guy by 2012. It becomes nothing but trivia and Cena didn't even cash-in successfully. This gets marked down. 4-7.

* I'm trying to remember who won it from SmackDown this year. I've usually got a pretty good memory, but this is making me stumble. That says something about the gimmick. Oh, it was Ziggler. I actually had to cheat, but I quite liked Ziggler with the briefcase. I thought he pulled it off well. It all went to shit when he lost the belt though. He's still featured in the WWE, but do we really consider him a main eventer? There are people still waiting for that push. I'm going to say "no," because he was already a World Heavyweight Champion by this point, this was to get him back there and he didn't stay. Great cash-in moment though. I'm eliminating this for the same reason as I eliminated Kane -- it is the highest point of this guy's modern career and you go down after MITB you are kind of proving my point. 4-8.

* Orton won, and for the same reason as Cena, you can't really count this. Didn't spike Orton to any new heights, merely a plot device. And by the time WrestleMania XXX rolled around, the MITB element to the story had been forgotten. Go back and watch the "Monster" video. Triple H Pedigreeing is emphasized, not Orton with the contract or Bryan even winning the belt in the first place. It's a retconned part of the story -- Triple H said Bryan would never get to the top, but now he's finally done it. 4-9.

* Damien Sandow. 4-10.

* Seth Rollins. You know what, I'll count this. I feel that Rollins is struggling, but I don't think he is at risk of being pushed down the card. He may not capture imaginations like a top star of old would, but the WWE seem high on him and he's going to be hovering around that belt for a long time to come, regardless of what happens to ratings, etc. Was better booked with the briefcase than with the belt though. 5-10.

* Sheamus. He had already won a belt three times before, was a former King of the Ring and a former Royal Rumble Winner. You can't count this as an ascension. And as a way to get Sheamus back into the main event picture, boy did this fucking bomb hard. I almost want to count it as two negatives, but we'll just go with the one. 5-11.

* Dean Ambrose. You know, probably still a bit early to tell. I'd say that he's a lot less interesting now than he was at the start of the year. His WWE Title run kind of sucked a lot of life out of him, and since losing the belt he has been even worse. That being said, I will count it as a positive in the same way that I gave Bryan and Rollins theirs, even though this might be seen as a flop later on. Right now, Ambrose is one of the featured talents of WWE. He's one of their "stars," even if most people wouldn't know who the fuck he was if he appeared on a talk show, and they might just label him "WWE Superstar" if he appeared on a red carpet or something. Like Seth, he will probably buzz around main event programs working with guys for a long time to come. They'll probably give him quite a few more runs with the belt, even if he ends up as cold with it as Sheamus or Alberto Del Rio. 6-11.

So there we are. Not only would I say that I think most MITB victories have been rather poor at launching stars, but I'd say there are almost twice as many failures as successes, and that's being generous.
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Something that I miss about the Money in the Bank being at WrestleMania is that you had leftover guys in it. I know that sounds like a negative, but the story of the first MITB was quite superb. You had six guys (three had been to the top before, three hadn't) who had fell wayside by the time Mania 21 came along. So they agree to fight in a special attraction -- risking life and limb in order for a title shot to prove that they either deserve to be there again, or that they belong there in the first place.

As its own PPV, beyond having two title matches locking down your four top talent, maybe a personal feud and maybe a main eventer slumming it in a Tag Title Match, it's harder to book the match as a major opportunity for hungry Superstars. As weird as it is to say, something I don't like about MITB Ladder Matches since 2010 is that they are the attraction instead of a supplementary attraction. As the latter they give this illusion of birthing, or re-birthing, a star.

In some ways, a perfect MITB would be Dolph Ziggler vs. Sheamus vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Cesaro vs. Sami Zayn vs. Bray Wyatt. Three men that have been a World Champion but are now struggling to find contemporary relevance, and three guys who have never been a champion, but people want to see in that rarefied air. Modern MITB matches feel a bit too "top heavy" and I think that affects the drama and grit of the match. It's also not as exciting when a real main event star has a chance of winning the match. It's like playing Russian Roulette with the status quo, and at least twice in the briefcase's history that has been the case the WWE has gone with.
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I would replace Ziggler with Big E and or Big Cass and or Enso. Those guys will be ready to have a small ( or big push if they win ).
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