5 Burning Issues For WWE Raw Tonight (Oct 16)

3. It's A Sad Sad Situation...

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...and it's getting more and more absurd.

As most are now all too aware of, last week's Cruiserweight calamity was the disparate result of former Champion Neville's understandable walk-out following months of mistreatment as one of the most reliable performers in the entire organisation.

Somehow, the 'King's exist resulted in Enzo Amore dropping his sought-after title to Kalisto, merely a week after the masked pillock redubuted in the division and about six months ahead of a realistic time when he could steward the ailing league.

Sure to get sympathy from very few, Amore was actually the unfortunate victim of the whole charade. Performing to the best of his abilities week after week despite the endless punishments and loud-and-clear demotion to the 205-and-under crew. Despite his excellent work drawing eyes and attention to the Tuesday wasteland and his commitment to an incredibly forced heel turn, Enzo was made to look at the lights yonks before even half his story had been told.

The two will do battle at Sunday's TLC pay-per-view as originally planned, but the company now have to decide if the 'Smacktalker Skywalker' is worthy of his place, whilst also working around a cold reality that the 'King Of Flight' can't really afford a loss. It's hard to parse how on earth they even attempt to get there on this go-home edition of the show.

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