How WWE Missed A HUGE Opportunity With Jon Moxley

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Eddie Kingston - who beat Matt Sydal with the choke just to show the current Champion that he could - already lost to Moxley a month ago but good booking and great talking has made the rematch more appealing than the maiden Dynamite encounter. MJF has moved from what looked like his biggest 2020 angle to his actual one with Chris Jericho. Brodie Lee's momentum increased exponentially as result of his wild Double Or Nothing defeat.

"Losing to John Cena" reflected one of the last times WWE looked like a traditional wrestling meritocracy, but it wasn't used for good. He was the type of babyface that fit a territorial system Vince McMahon himself had destroyed. When your Rybacks and Dolph Zigglers and R-Truths were beaten handily, they didn't have a new town to take over so they were left on the treadmill. A Randy Orton or Edge or CM Punk might get another go years later, but 'surviving a Cena programme' shouldn't have been the line between the stars and plebs. When 'The Champ' was no longer here, the line became a dot before disappearing completely. It shouldn't need typing out on which side every current WWE performer typically sits.

Dean Ambrose observed that, and that's why he knew he had to go. If only Vince McMahon had had an attitude adjustment back in 2018, or been as intelligent as the man he always booked as being too stupid for his own good. U Can't C Mox on Fox or USA, and for that WWE diehards should be giving the Chairman one mighty FU.

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