10 Most Paused WWE Moments

1. The Fiend Is Distracted At WrestleMania 37

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If the Fiend continues to not feature on programming, WWE will have stumbled a*se-backwards into quite the hilarious implication.

The last time he was out this long, it was rather understandable. He had been immolated to death. This time - the demonic, selectively invincible entity has been out nearly two months - he was banished to whence he came by a draping DDT and an RKO. The reality is different, wrestling being a work and all. In reality, creative has nothing for the Fiend, which is absurd. Your writer is no Fiend fan, at all, but he's certainly creative.

But from a storyline perspective: Fire = RKO.

At WrestleMania 37, The Fiend lost via distraction. The whole, bizarre scene registered as something that a scorned fan would tweet to take the piss.

The Fiend...jobs...via distraction.

It is wild, even from the most cynical of perspectives, that this actually happened. And yet it did. Alexa Bliss bled black goo from her scalp, the Fiend looked on in puzzlement that she'd turned on him, and he did the job clean in the f*cking middle.

The Fiend will join in promo trains and guest on Miz TV next. Then perhaps he will get his heat back by rolling up Akira Tozawa or whoever the f*ck the 24/7 Champion is now.

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