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Road Dogg, You Killed SmackDown It’s a party so inclusive, even Road Dogg
can come if he wants.
Despite the fact, he’s been killing SmackDown for months.
This is the theory behind the ‘Fire Road Dogg’ hashtag on social media, which is
based on the rumour he replaced SmackDown head writer Ryan Ward early last year - when
the quality of Tuesday night shows began to decline.
Thing is, those rumors fall apart when you look at the situation closer.
Ward is still SmackDown’s lead writer, with Road Dogg reportedly receiving a different
kind of promotion.
Road Dogg is no stranger to shooting on social media - as he’ll often respond to criticism
of WWE on Twitter - and now he’s made light of #FireRoadDogg at the end of last night’s
Backstage Pass live stream with Renee Young: “Thank you for having me.
I’m going to go back in here and kill SmackDown!”
But while Road Dogg kills Tuesday nights, Ronda Rousey decided to kill the business!
Ronda Rousey EXPOSES THE BUSINESS!
In a startling revelation on yesterday’s episode of Ellen, Rousey exposed professional
wrestling as predetermined: “WWE, the way I describe it, is it’s a
live TV show about a wrestling tournament where everyone does their own stunts.
And that’s pretty much it—it’s not fake fighting, it’s scripted.
When I got slapped across the face [by Stephanie McMahon] the other day, that was a real slap.
There’s no good way to fake that.
They don’t bring out the rubber hand for me.”
If you want to make wrestling sound credible, Ronda, don’t mention the rubber hand.
Ronda Rousey Finisher Revealed?
But apparently that’s where Ronda’s arm-based offence might stop, because Kurt Angle revealed
in a recent Facebook Q+A that the Samoan drop-like move she hit Stephanie McMahon with on last
Monday’s Raw - which Ronda explained was a “Standing reverse kata guruma” judo
move - will actually be Rousey’s finisher.
Real Reason Ronda Rousey Dropped From Raw But weirdly, Ronda was missing from this week’s
Raw, just two weeks after WWE.com announced she’ll be at every episode leading up to
WrestleMania.
The article that broke that news has since been deleted, and the web address now redirects
to Ronda Rousey’s profile page.
According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, the real reason Ronda wasn’t on this week’s Raw
despite being advertised is that she “was scheduled for medical testing in Pittsburgh
on Monday, not Raw in Detroit.”
- and the original WWE.com article saying she’d be at every pre-Mania Raw was a mistake
and “incorrectly advertised” her Monday night appearance.
This incorrect announcement was shared across all WWE’s social media, because they had
no reason to doubt it’s reliability coming from WWE.com itself.
Apparently Rousey “truly wanted” to be at this Monday’s Raw, but couldn’t due
to the medical testing.
WrestleZone followed this up by reporting Rousey is no longer listed for the next two
Raw tapings in Dallas and Cleveland, but she is advertised for the WrestleMania go-home
show in Atlanta on April 2nd.
Pro Wrestling Sheet add that while she might not appear on the next two weeks of TV, she
“WILL BE PRESENT AT EVERY RAW PRIOR TO WRESTLEMANIA” from now on, just maybe only for dark segments
for the live audience only.
Ronda Rousey will of course team with Kurt Angle against-
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Shane McMahon has been injured on SmackDown!
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