6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Dec 6)

3. Elias And Dana Up A Tree...

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...S.U.C.K.I.N.G.

OK, so maybe that was a poor choice of acronym given the sexual tension angle WWE are going with this Dana Brooke and Elias story. Still, the promotion's apparent need to explain that "Big Dave" won't be happy that Elias is stirring his custard seems odd. It's not like Elias vs. Batista is going to happen at 'Mania.

Also, how many cuckold-style storylines can one company have? Between the Mike and Maria Kanellis business over the summer, what's happening between Rusev, Lana and Bobby Lashley, and now this subpar excuse to get Dana on telly, there's a lot of funny business going on in WWE.

Corey Graves even remarked that some people are into strange stuff in 2019. Yes, and those "people" are WWE's writers. Did someone get cheated on by their wife or something? There's an air of jilted lover in the office about all this.

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