6 Ups & 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Feb 4)
2. The Diss Course
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Destined to be divisive, the announcements of both Killer Kross and Timothy Thatcher donning those 'Property Of WWE' Performance Center t-shirts was partially legitimised thanks to Ryan Satin's weekly reminder of what you read on Twitter earlier that day.
His copy for the night sadly needed a bit of vetting.
Inadvertently playing to the worries of the fans that have loved Thatcher in particular and are now worrying over a potential loss, Satin errantly referring to him as an "original member of Imperium".
It passed without mention on the show of course, but was an unhelpful blunder to those already panicked by WWE's continued efforts to monopolise the wider wrestling landscape yet again.
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