How WWE Just Saved One Of Its Worst Ideas EVER

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It took a fourth man to make whole something that still felt too flawed to ever work, but the missing piece wasn't the brilliantly useless Dominik Mysterio. Not yet, anyway.

In July, the earth shifted below everybody's feet when Vince McMahon resigned in disgrace. Jumping before he was pushed for a host of rotten indiscretions outside of his professional capacity, he left no handover for an incumbent Triple H beyond a simple remit of not being quite as appallingly uncreative as he'd been for the fat end of two decades.

'The Game' had a tremendously low bar to clear, and did so with ease by snatching quick wins out of Drew McIntyre uttering the word "wrestling" on a wrestling show and human beings being given their first names back. But few could have predicted what a job he'd do of rescuing an act most rational minds had rendered beyond saving. He was forgiven for plenty, and one of those things would have been just dropping the group cold and resetting completely, but heads were put together and everybody instead elected to take the much harder challenge of repairing the damage.

Clash At The Castle was the still point in a violently-paced turning world. En route to the Cardiff event, Edge returned to the type of pop that rendered his original heel turn all the stupider. He was chosen by The Judgment Day's newest victim Rey Mysterio as the right guy to fight them off with at the PLC. Chosen over his own son, no less. And with that, the the final piece of a seemingly unsolvable puzzle was now ready to be slid into place.

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