3. Reality Meets Storyline
So the mess of a storyline involving Dolph Ziggler, Lana, Rusev and Summer Rae looks like it finally has wound down actually, its more accurate to say it was taken out back and put out of its misery. But it was how WWE finally scrapped the abysmal plot that really was mind-boggling. Last week, Summer Rae proposed to Rusev. This apparently came several weeks after Rusev proposed in real life to his real life girlfriend Lana. But WWE decided to proceed with the Summer Rae angle anyway. Then this weekend, TMZ ran a piece on Rusev and Lana, which immediately was incorporated into the storyline. At the very least, this spells an end (hopefully) to this awful angle, and thankfully Summer stood up for herself in the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgoNe5DAJkw But a quick note: It seems like WWE loves to weave in real life personal relationships between wrestlers, but yet absolutely refuses to acknowledge one that plays out weekly on a show they constantly hype. Maybe if TMZ published a bunch of photos of John Cena and Nikki Bella wed see them up on the screen as well?
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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