18 Things You Might Have Missed From Last Night’s WWE SmackDown

8. Paige Is Making Kurt Angle Look Bad

Paige Renee Young
WWE

Kurt Angle is starting to suck the life out of his Raw GM role, and it's barely even his fault. Overshadowed by Stephanie McMahon and booked to make knee-jerk decisions a-go-go, Angle pales in comparison to Paige.

Over on SmackDown, Paige is acting as her own woman free of a tyrannical Commissioner, often makes decisions that suit logic (like giving the medically cleared Big Cass a MITB opportunity he was supposed to have pre-injury) and doesn't pointlessly come out in front of the crowd just to make matches.

Let's hope this kind of thing continues, because she's coming across as the strong authority figure WWE love without hogging all the attention.

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