10 Predicted End Dates For WWE’s Big Pushes

Winter Is Coming.

Winter Bray Wyatt
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"What is a push? Ha, ha. It's a little bit of an indication that WWE aims to present a performer as a formidable force in storylines. I don't have one. Nobody else here has one. But you know what? A push is for a real man. See, of all these people here, I have the best push of them all. Give me a couple more days, I'll have a nice, thick push. But none of these boys right here -"

- Eli Cottonwood, Monday Night RAW, 2019.

For several years now, the WWE fanbase at large has bemoaned WWE's chronic inability to just f*cking see it through. Pushes aren't pushes anymore; they are literally pulls back into the gorilla position. This is the latest in a long line of WWE developments - defeated champions, paying talent specifically not to wrestle - that proves WWE is now comprehensively ar*e-backwards.

So with all of this in mind, in a magnanimous gesture, what follows is a shotgun blast of nihilism designed to make everything better. It's probably not going to go the way you think. To enjoy WWE's output in 2019, all you have to do is let the gallows humour in.

Yowie Wowie, we're gonna have so much fun here!

10. Andrade

Winter Bray Wyatt
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"Andrade has gotten high marks from everyone of late. He’s gotten great reviews from the live event producers and the talent is also as a general rule really positive regarding his ability. He’s pretty much become universally loved. Vince wants to push him."

Dave Meltzer, writing in the May 20, 2019 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Great news!

Andrade is a phenomenal pro wrestler as spectacular in the sky as he is unvarnished in his brutal striking game. Handsome son of a bitch, too. A proper TV star, if treated carefully.

Whoops!

Vince McMahon just dropped the plate all over the kitchen floor, his concentration perhaps affected by sleeping for just 14 hours across a single week. And if that quote above triggers your FDM impulses - he isn't there, how could he possibly know, etc. etc. - WWE is there, in WWE, and WWE announced on May 19 that Andrade is set to challenge for Finn Bálor's Intercontinental Title at Super Show-Down.

And then, two days later, Andrade lost to Ali via flash roll-up on SmackDown. So Ali won, dampening Andrade's heat, but it was a fluke, so he didn't really win, either.

Predicted End Date: Right this second?

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