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Co-signed. Of all shows, WWE programming needs someone looking at it from a TV writing perspective.

If they're not suggesting Orton could go for either title as they used to, they're not doing intra-brand matches at Mania, even if that leaves Joe as an overqualified Alex Riley. Also bear in mind Braun has no Mania direction, and they've been building him as a destroyer since the brand split.

"The Smackdown women's division is bad because Becky wouldn't have won the title on Raw" is no argument at all. Wyatt wouldn't have won the world title on Raw. Styles probably wouldn't have unless you can work out where he fits into the Triple H as unseen guiding hand masterplan.

I'm really not sure I get the title picture after this entirely because the entire set-up, even last week, was for Becky to fight her way past Alexa and Mickie and reclaim the title on the big stage as the hugely over underdog. Instead Naomi comes back to TV and does three times in four weeks what Becky managed once

He wasn't even a lumberjack for Ambrose-Miz, though I just checked and he was still working house shows in late January, though not so far this month so maybe it's the usual mysterious disappearance reason of him being on leave ahead of his contract expiring.

The vast majority of people who will watch Wrestlemania have no idea what WrestleKingdom is.

The Wrestlemania title match isn't going to be the same as a match on the previous PPV's undercard.

It's based on a documentary that was on UK TV when she was still in FCW, never mind NXT, so no.

Lena Headey as Sweet Saraya Knight? They've not even started filming and I'm already in line to see it.

Film 4 are co-producers with WWE and Rock's company, which may explain it.

Technically he already is losing to Goldberg because of Jericho, because Chris put him up to putting his title on the line against someone who just decimated Brock Lesnar in less than a minute and a half.

Her mother Saraya is one of the best known, and most colorful, female indie wrestlers there is, and I guess everyone who knows about Paige knows about the original documentary because it's on YouTube and is often mentioned in pieces about her.

Been out since last June with a serious neck problem, and being suspended twice in less than two months for test failures during that period - at least one for drug use - hasn't helped.

The Frankie Kazarian part might be trickier to pull off.

Possible AV Club will run a story on this anyway, but this is making my head spin - The Rock is executive producing a comedy-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Merchant, about Paige's family. http://www.hollywoodreporte…

Reigns was the #2 merch seller in the company in 2016. I haven't heard of many protest pyres being built with a wrestling theme, so…

What's Emma going to do? Sasha and Bayley's stories are locked up from here to Mania, Alicia is lost in 205-land and with Paige and Summer injured and Dana bulking back up to work fitness events that luckily for her don't require interactions with ropes there's nobody else available, never mind whether they're faces

At least Punk was the key performer in his own storylines.

You did read the part where several of us, including Latoya in the actual review, said Cena-Orton won't actually be the Mania match?

The current talk is a fatal four-way at Mania, so Naomi is likely just to get another face into the mix against the heel pair given it seems Nikki might now be doing something else there and Becky has another hurdle to get over before getting back at Alexa.