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My understanding is she dropped it while she was doing Total Divas and was basically "CJ Perry the person who plays Lana" on that show, so they just kept it that way when she came back.

Ronda was also trolling after the Rumble posting a pic stating "oh you thought I was coming back", so she's definitely planting the seeds since her MO is to deny something before it happens (see also her denying Dave's report she was leaving after last year's Mania before she in fact ended up leaving).

I would assume she's either going to be in a women's tag title match or on some random battle royal.

He never seems like a good guy even when he's a babyface, so it's like he never actually "turns".

Buddy is one of the folks Heyman wants to build the Raw brand around, that's why he's in the top stable now.

Most likely.

They want to elevate NXT to be seen as equal to Raw and SD, so having the Rumble winner challenge the NXT champion would be to serve that purpose. Also I'm sure they know the only way NXT seems to be able to beat AEW is to have main roster stars show up, so that's another way to try to do that again.

According to Dave, Heyman kept the belt on Andrade because he felt it was too early in the program for him to lose it and he's one of the guys he wants to build Raw around. So it's not a statement of WWE giving up on Humberto (yet).

Yeah I'm sure being the Queen's Consort has its advantages. It is kind of weird we're having Wellness failures again after what seems like years since the last one. Of course it was rumored Andrade's was for cocaine which considering he's a luchadore who's associated with the Flair family seems like a given.

The way he was going from "sadistic motherfucker" to "guy having to put down a sick pet" and back again was tremendous.

Oh man, this is some real legit "the crowd thinks Randy's about to kill a motherfucker" heat.

This Edge promo is really good and all but it's funny that the real answer to "why am I here" is "because I was talking to AEW and Vince got scared".

They have to build for Elimination Chamber while also setting up Mania programs, so they really can't spend too much time on SaudiMania.

I'm not even sure what's the most shocking thing there, that Cedric was on Main event...that he lost...or that Riddick Moss is still in WWE somewhere.

If Ronda is coming back it will be her vs Becky for sure, that would be the biggest match they could do and could probably justifiably main event WM if they want to have a women's match on top again this year.

It's weird, I felt Tom got done dirty on the last announcer shuffle since he was one of the better ones out there, but Vic didn't do anything to deserve getting yeeted into the shadow realm either.

I loved Brock's reaction to Keith Lee, he looked like a puppy excited to play with a new toy. Also it looks like AJ might have got a shoulder injury last night, I thought his elimination looked odd and according to Dave he called an audible to get eliminated after taking the spear from Edge. He also stated Beth was fine after her bloodbath as well, and as someone who got a 5 on the Muta scale from nicking the back of my head while shaving I can attest to that area bleeding like a stuck pig the slightest injury.

Looks like Tom Phillips is now on the Raw announce team, replacing Vic Joseph.

I would assume that that Bray might lose the title at the Elimination Chamber since they can always do some fuckery there where they swap the title without him actually losing. From the way they've been building Drew I would think he's the one facing Brock unless Vince has one of his last minute mind changes. If Ronda comes back the obvious program is with Becky, but what do you do with Charlotte? Another three way would be almost too WWE of them to attempt. I would like to see Shayna get the callup since she doesn't have anything left to do in NXT. They can do the Queen vs Queen angle there, and honestly the clock is ticking on Shayna since she got a late start in wrestling and it's a matter of time before she gets the dreaded "too old" label.

I thought both Rumbles were well done, the only thing that really left me puzzled was why Lacey lost after they were doing the whole Marine Supermom deal with her.

Well it's not like they never had Roman win a Rumble despite there being a hotter hand, so you can't be surprised when people start thinking it was going to happen again.

Yeah Roman throwing out Edge was fine since he wasn't winning. Roman winning after that would have been an all time LOLWWE moment. Good to see Drew finally get his chance, dude busted his ass after leaving WWE and earned every push he's going to get.

Quite a night for the Copeland house tonight.

Production team having a WCW level effort here, twice missing spears by Edge.

As far as I know he hasn't hurt anyone with them.