Real Reason Next Week's WWE Raw Got Cancelled

In WWE, things are slowly changing - but the Garden is the Garden.

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There will be no original live edition of Monday Night Raw on December 26, 2022; as previously reported, WWE will instead screen an 'Absolute Best'-of edition of the show in its place.

The schedule fell on an inconvenient day this year, and as a result - as reported by Fightful Select - the decision was taken to grant (certain) production staffers time off on Boxing Day as a goodwill gesture. This is not the first occasion on which employees have been granted time off that they may not have had the luxury of under the previous regime.

Still, the move is not without controversy; while a top talent reached out to Fightful and disclosed that the wrestlers, who are still working a house show, are paid well for working over the holidays, they expressed their wish that "the wrestlers themselves could have a little more holiday time off"

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Of course, it is not only the in-ring talent who are working the traditional Madison Square Garden; the live production crew must also be on hand.

As with much of Triple H's regime thus far, perhaps he is benefitting from operating at a slightly better and more upstanding level than Vince did.

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