5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Mar 3)

1. Where’s The Actual Story?

Bobby Lashley Uncle Howdy
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Sorry, but this isn't clicking.

Bray Wyatt vs. Bobby Lashley is a last-minute exhibition with some supernatural bells and whistles tossed on it. Worse, the mysterious 'Uncle Howdy' was made to look like a chump before pretty much running away from Lashley when the Raw star got the upper hand. Hmm.

Yours truly cannot lie - he isn't sold on this match at all. The build is already fairly crap, and that won't help these lads come 'Mania when they're standing across the ring from one another. Also, if 'Howdy' can't hold his own against Lashley, then why was Wyatt scared of him when he thinks he can?!

Bobby probs isn't strong enough on the mic as a babyface to make this work when Bray isn't there. Wyatt will have to do most (if not all) of the heavy lifting to drag this feud up to par in time for April. There's simply no real reason why these guys are even at loggerheads.

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