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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
Could just be a mistake. In fact, I’d bet it is. But Big E retaining would have made sense. It just didn’t given the circumstances.
They could have crowned an interim champion. They could have used it as an angle. They could have done a bunch of things. But this is what they WANTED to do. And it means something to some people. They saw a WWE Title change. It means more now it’s on Brock. And when does that end? The Rumble? On TV? That could be huge.
I just don’t agree with calling it a “panic move”. For all we know, Roman is out indefinitely. There could be seriously smart creative plans in place. I doubt this went over Heyman’s head. Just chill out and stop the “WWE Bad” narrative in this circumstance. They wanted a moment for a weird show. They may have a way in and out…or to run this further than any of us expect.
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They could have also just given Lesnar the night off due to Reigns' COVID issue and kept all their existing plans in place instead of screwing up whatever they had set for after Day 1.
Inserting a guy at the very last minute into a title match and giving him said title is a "panic move" and its not like WWE doesn't have a past history with these type of puzzling booking decisions whenever a serious wrench is thrown into their plans.
You probably thing Becky Lynch's title win at SummerSlam was this smart creative plan when both her and Bianca have mentioned in past interviews about it being a last minute decision once Sasha Banks was pulled from the show with no prior announcement given.
Plus "smart creative plans" and Bruce Prichard in charge of creative is an oxymoron at this point considering how bad WWE's overall booking has become ever since he took control, especially on the RAW side.