The REAL Reason The Revival Just Won WWE Raw Tag Team Titles

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The comparisons between the two end here, pinned to the mat like Dash and Dawson's shoulders were during their last six failed televised title shots. The Simpsons was, at its creative peak, a beloved comedy that played with cynicism for the good of the narrative and happiest possible endings. WWE in 2019, at its arguable creative nadir, is an accidental comedy that is duty-bound by the whims of its owner to actively insert cynicm into the narrative at the expense of a satisfying conclusion.

Vince McMahon even knows this, but can no longer do what he had to in the 1990s and change the habit of a lifetime. He cast himself as WWE's Avon-selling da on the very same edition of Raw, flogging Charlotte Flair as the WrestleMania main event attraction in the furious face of the fanbase.

This is at long last a storyline that feeds into a received wisdom about the state of the man without Triple H as the angel on his shoulder. It has taken the company years to weave this fact into fiction, and there was something serendipitous about it happening on the same broadcast as "internet" favourites winning titles that have been rendered all-too-meaningless over the past twelve months.

McMahon the booker was finally helicoptering in the safest hands to save a tag division, whilst his character hijacked the women's one. Cute symmetry perhaps, but both moments were riddled with an undercurrent of disdain.

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