8 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Dec 18)

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3. Shane McMahon: The Worst

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It was difficult to give even one f*ck about this "New" SmackDown when WWE missed the entire point, and defied their own narrative, before the show had even started.

"The days of absentee management are over," said Triple H on Monday's RAW, who incidentally was absent from SmackDown. We want absentee management. We don't want Shane McMahon to "empower" his roster, and demand they grab the brass ring as, all the while, they read out somebody else's sh*t.

Imagine listening to this trust fund f*ckwit, if you were in that pack of maverick talents. This guy, who gets off on cosplaying as a badass wrestler as if he is literally five years old, is telling a roster that they are accountable, under the pretence of "reality", when in reality, they aren't. They all looked like supplicant drones just 48 hours removed from a pay per view they rocked the damn dome off.

Basically what we're saying here is absolutely f*ck Shane McMahon.

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