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

16. WWE Ignoring Ronda Rousey’s WrestleMania Debut

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WWE just love running hype vids for the opposite brand every week. It does make sense in a way (why wouldn't they want to promote everything going on with the product?), and yet there's something strange about seeing Raw matches touted on SmackDown.

On top of that, it's weird when WrestleMania is outright ignored.

A short hype package for Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax at MITB mentioned that Rousey was ready for the Olympics, UFC and Hollywood. The purpose of this was to doubt if she'd be fully prepared for Jax, and that's fine. What isn't is forgetting to reference her killer debut against Stephanie McMahon and Triple H in New Orleans.

How did they miss that one?

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