WWE: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems

2019 was the best and worst of WWE, bottled between the big four pay-per-views.

The Royal Rumble and WrestleMania delivered Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins as big match babyface winners, exactly as fans had hoped for. 'The Show Of Shows' ended up offering something bigger than both in Kofi Kingston's WWE Title win decided a month before the event. It was the perfect blend of long and short-term booking from a company that so rarely gets the combination correct. It also wasn't to last.

By SummerSlam, Rollins was fighting Brock Lesnar again because he'd conspired to lose the title (and half his fanbase) since the 'Grandaddy Of Em All'. Kofi Kingston was firmly rooted back in the midcard despite the belt around his waist, whilst Becky had to wrestle there most of the time despite just about maintaining her aura.

Come Survivor Series, 'The Man' was on last again but the match bombed. Seth was a lead babyface for the final time, his pops extinguished entirely by the aforementioned catastrophes with The Fiend, whilst Kofi Kingston couldn't make it past the pre-show having lost his championship to - guess who? - Brock Lesnar a few weeks earlier.

Everything people loved had dissolved before the end of the year in a sad and damning indictment of a fundamentally broken system...but the Survivor Series was still a good show. WWE have mastered the art of misdirection despite abandoning virtually every core principle en route. So what does that offer for the future?

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