Smackdown gave us a lot of hints and updates to upcoming storylines so we’ll check out
what’s going on with Sasha Banks and Naomi, Roman versus Brock, Vince McMahon’s new
story and much more
Let’s start things off with this rumored Vince McMahon storyline
Vince McMahon has been a part of a Raw storyline with Austin Theory over the last few months
on Raw
However, that storyline seems to have fizzled out and didn’t really give us any real solid
payoff, which again, you sort of come to expect with some stories
It’s always gonna start strong and then leave us pretty much hanging just looking
for answers and looking for a payoff
The Vince McMahon and Austin Theory storyline looked like it was going somewhere, but that
turned out to be false
But according to reports, Vince McMahon is not only entering a new storyline, he’s
rumored to be getting back into the ring at Wrestlemania
This year’s Wrestlemania season has been full of bizarre names returning to the ring
that we never thought we would hear again, such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Micheals,
and now a 76 year old Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon last had a Wrestlemania match in 2010 against Bret Hart, he did had a match
against CM Punk on Raw in 2012, and took a few bumps from Kevin Owens in 2017
So the chairman has been active here and there over the last decade in his 60s and now mid
70s
But no one thought we’d see another full match from Vince McMahon, but that’s apparently
what the rumor is
Vince McMahon will be taking part in a live interview with Pat
This is Vince’s first live interview since 2014 and apparently this interview could be
used to jump start this Wrestlemania program of Vince versus Pat
It sounds bizarre, it sounds pretty unbelievable, but apparently this is a actual rumor…
Vince versus Pat
Pat had a few great matches in NXT before becoming one of the faces of the Smackdown
commentary team, but if this report is true, Pat is making a return to the ring to face
the chairman of the board
Vince McMahon is known for taking a few unbelievable bumps in his 70s, but everyone is intrigued
to see how a full match would work with Vince McMahon in this current state and age
Some fans were discussing that maybe Vince McMahon finds someone to fight Pat on his
behalf, and that’s an interesting idea because that’s how you can potentially tie Austin
Theory back into everything and pay that story off as well
Maybe Austin Theory interferes, fights on the behalf of Vince McMahon, and makes Vince
proud by defending him and defeating Pat for him
There’s a decent way right there to pay off that entire Vince McMahon and Austin Theory
storyline
Austin sticks up for Vince McMahon and defends him on the biggest show of the year, that’s
something that would get him major points with Vince McMahon and tie everything back
together
So that’s one idea, but according to reports, no, it’s Vince McMahon that will be getting
into the ring with Pat
So again, it’s just crazy to hear about, but there’s an actual chance we see Vince
McMahon back in the ring nearing 80 years old, so it’ll be very interesting to see
how all that unfolds if that truly is their plans
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Another moment from Smackdown that’s getting mixed reactions is the reunion between Sasha
Banks and Naomi
Now of course, it’s great to see these former Team Bad members reunite, but the sort of
bad part about it is that everyone expected both Naomi and Sasha to have bigger roles
heading into Wrestlemania
For Sasha Banks, everyone expected her to have a big singles match, maybe against a
legend, maybe against Bayley, just anyone like that for her to pick up this big first
singles win, but that’s not happening
For Naomi, the situation is actually a bit more frustrating
Naomi has been in this storyline with Sonya Deville for what feels like forever, but it
appears that WWE is moving on from that Naomi versus Sonya feud without any proper payoff
Which again, as a viewer that puts time into storylines, is very frustrating
We’ve invested all this time into Naomi versus Sonya Deville, it was one of the longest
on-going programs that everyone started assuming that WWE must have this major insane endgame
and payoff for the feud
Like we were just discussing the other day, maybe like a job versus job match at Wrestlemania
between Naomi and Sonya
That would’ve been a satisfying payoff for the near 8 months of time that fans invested
into this storyline
But what’s the big payoff that WWE decides to go with?
They pretend that the Naomi and Sonya feud never happened, move on from it, and randomly
put Sasha and Naomi back together
So again, you can see the big difference in the expectations compared to what we actually
end up getting
And it’s something that we’re continuing to see time and time again and it’s starting
to happen so frequently
Stories start off great, looks like it’s headed somewhere big towards the middle of
it, and it completely flatlines towards the end when it’s time for a big payoff
Why does that keep happening?
No one really knows, but it would appear that WWE starts storylines without really have
a clear idea of what the endgame is
That’s the equivalent of writing a book or a movie script without having a proper
ending for your story in mind beforehand
And that’s exactly what WWE storylines have started to feel like recently, it’s like
someone is starting to write that book and has a great concept, but doesn’t have that
ending planned so somewhere along the middle, they just abandon the story, and that’s
exactly what WWE continues to do time and time again
So yeah, maybe it’s time to start seriously relaxing our expectations for storyline payoffs
because it appears that WWE’s weakness when it comes to storytelling is following through,
committing to a story, and actually paying it off.
It’s extremely rare to get that from WWE storylines nowadays
They’ll hype you up with a great start and great middle, but they’ll never really give
you that satisfying end
Like we’ve seen with the WWE Hacker, Alexa and Bray, Naomi and Sonya, Retribution, and
so on
But on the bright side, it would appear that Sasha and Naomi will be challenging Zelina
Vega and Carmella for the women’s titles at Wrestlemania
And Sasha and Naomi should no doubt win that match and become tag team champions
Sasha is still winless at Wrestlemania after 6 appearances, so this should no doubt be
that first Wrestlemania win for her and she’ll be picking up a championship at the same time
with Naomi, so that’s the good part, but again, it’s just unfortunate that they abandoned
Naomi versus Sonya Deville after so much months of story
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Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns also had their contract signing for their Wrestlemania main
event match
WWE also answered a popular question that fans had about the outcome of this match
They officially announced that this will be a title unification match, meaning that the
winner of this match will only be carrying around one world title after Wrestlemania
So it’ll be similar to what we saw back in 2014 where WWE combined both world titles
into just one actual championship, so same idea here
Will they be introducing a new unified title or bringing back an old one?
No one knows, but the easiest thing for them to do would be to retire the universal title
and let the winner hold onto the WWE championship
The Universal Title came into existence in 2016, the WWE title came into existence with
the infancy of WWE… it’s quite clear which title has more history and deserves to stick
around, so assuming they just retire the universal title and have the original WWE title serve
as the unified championship is also a very safe guess for now
But they have the contract signing, Brock says he’s gonna get his hands on Roman and
Heyman, Roman goes off on a passionate rant about how everything in WWE belongs to him,
and Brock takes out the security guards
There’s still a handful of weeks before Wrestlemania, so it’ll be interesting to
see what other segments they come up with to keep this story going strong
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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