WWE Raw Superstar Shake-Up: 10 Things You Might Have Missed (April 16)

3. Kiss Of Dolph

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Drew McIntyre's main roster re-emergence came with a rather worrying whimper as he did the heavy lifting for Raw returnee and perennial lost cause Dolph Ziggler.

Decking fellow nobodies Titus Worldwide, Ziggler and McIntyre were either announcing themselves as a deadly new supergroup on the flagship, or pulling a ladder away from the only acts lower down than them on the Monday Night totem pole. The former requires an overhaul of 'The Show Off' so radical that it fixes the most broken character in wrestling since Matt Hardy went mad. The latter confines the former NXT Champion back to the bin he clambered out of upon first leaving the company several years ago.

It speaks to Ziggler's overarching irrelevance that the biggest buzz seemed to be that the original 'Three Man Band' trio were back on the same brand for the very first time. Much like the similar acknowledgment of Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins' shared Raw status last spring, a long-awaited return to a one-note-joke may somehow end up the best use of all three.

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