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Spoiler alert: they are all in on Lacey.

I just assumed Bryan is doing the "ex champion goes away to stew about losing his title" deal while they reshuffle the deck on both shows. I'd think any injury would have come out by now, and there's no need to start his next program immediately when they have so many other irons in the fire. Also, not to incur the wrath of the bossman, wasn't the deal with the IIconics some sort of copyright issue? They were the Iconic Duo in NXT and I seem to remember they were supposed to have that name on the main roster, but someone found out it was already claimed by someone else. Doesn't make the spelling any less stupid, but at least there was a story behind it.

I like how part of Charlotte's inheritance seems to be getting Lil' Naitch as a personal ref. Shoot your shot, Lars! If Big Cass could get with Mella, you have a shot.

I love those Rusev/Lana commercials. I can totally see him acting like a giant 6 year old in the middle of a dollar store.

Poor Charlotte, her and Andrade are the only couple to get separated in the draft so far, even Sara Logan and The Artist Formerly Known as Ray Rowe got put together on RAW.

It is, yet the whole trope of turning someone in their hometown seems done to death at this point.

It would actually be cool for Joe to randomly take a dude out on Raw next week all "surprise, mothafucka" after missing last week. I'm going to be sad now when they end up not doing that.

Joe was scratched off Raw due to being sick, so considering he had a segment to scratch that would assume he was supposed to be included yesterday.

Sasha was a frequent guest too so it's been a rough week for his side hustle!

Opening with KO was a smart choice.

I do remember Dave saying something along the lines of the doc revealing who originally came up with the idea, hinting it would be someone unexpected. Did that make the final cut at all?

Not to mention there was a noticeable buzz when Braun and Luke had a brief face off in the WM battle royal. That should have been a sign to the company that folks still see something in Harper.

It must be quite a shock for Vince to see guys going from being afraid of losing their jobs to the point everyone but the main eventers were on eggshells, to guys asking for their releases hand over fist. It's almost as if signing guys just to hoard them wasn't the best idea long term.

Luke Harper just posted he requested his release today.

Everyone's saying "who cares it's just a name", but a name can absolutely make or break someone in WWE. Rowe and Hanson were established names that were over, Ivar and Erik sound like geeks waiting to get beat by the Hart Foundation on an episode of Wrestling Challenge in 1988.

Apparently the Montreal episode leans heavily on already disproven talking points (like Bret was going to take the WWF belt to Nitro so Vince had to do what he did), so I'm sure Dave's already anticipating more idiots coming after him claiming this show proves him wrong some how. He's more or less insinuated he feels the whole subject is done to death, but when something like this comes up he has to talk about it again.

I would suspect they do another shuffling before Fox time for sure.

Yes, AJ did everything he could on SD and was probably the one person most in need of a change in scenery.

I love that Becky was the one to get the word "'belt" back on WWE TV.

I wonder if the payoff to this buzzard puppet will end up being that Bray's last gimmick drove him crazy.

WWE remembered EC3 exists!

Sasha getting the "took her ball and went home" treatment on commentary.

Lars has that Andre thing going where it looks like he has a thousand teeth.

The Viking Experience sounds like something you'd need to pay extra for to get from a "professional' if you know what I mean.

It's replacing far better names with "kinda regular" ones, it's the worst choice you can make when you downgrade something for no reason.