6 Ups & 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Feb 4)
2. Dog Days Of (Last) Summer
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Focus on The Undertaker's clash with Roman Reigns thankfully resulted in conversation about far superior clashes from earlier in his career.
Talk on 'The Deadman included King Booker's programme with him during their shared time atop SmackDown, Christian's Attitude Era sh*tkicking from the 'American Bad *ss' and Drew McIntyre's magnificent tag team match alongside Shane McMahon against the Graveyard Dogs in 2019.
These were all far worthier additions to the discourse than the WrestleMania 33 dud, and gave rise to the hope that 'The Phenom's next move (should he even choose to make it) would be far closer to the former than the latter.
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