6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Feb 19)

1. That. Spear.

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Why did they do this?

Edge has spent the past couple of weeks telling the world that he'd make his WrestleMania 37 decision at Elimination Chamber. So, it was jumping the gun just a tad to have Roman Reigns spear the Royal Rumble winner out of his tennis shoes on SmackDown. Gee, wonder what's going to happen next?

Yes, everyone knew that Roman and Edge were going to end up working together anyway, but WWE took a dump on the Chamber pay-per-view with this decision. Also, it would've been preferable to keep the Universal Title pair apart physically until 'Mania. This is, after all, one of the biggest matches this company has left to book.

Now, post-spear, Edge will definitely announce Reigns as his target. He knows it, you know it, Michael Cole's throat sweeties know it - everyone knows it. That's not good when the whole point of Chamber was that things were still up in the air.

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