7 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (May 7)

6. Oh, How We've Missed You?

AJ Styles
WWE.com

AJ Styles was the first Raw Superstar to hit this week's SmackDown as part of the Wild Card Rule, with the former WWE Champion's music hitting at the top of the show. Cue: Corey Graves putting over just how much they'd missed having 'The Phenomenal One' on Tuesday nights.

Three weeks. That's how long Styles has been gone for, yet the announcers were putting him over as if he'd been absent for years.

This is a minor complaint, but things like this remove you from the fictional universe WWE are supposed to be maintaining. This is a fantasy world, but it needs to be grounded in reality, and we've barely been given enough time to "miss" AJ for him to be welcomed back in such a manner.

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