6. Deja vu: Kofi vs. Bray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-slXJCUpo8 Something has been bothering me with Raw and SmackDown ever since the brand split ended, and that's when the company pretends that a match didn't just happen a couple nights before. On the March 14th edition of SmackDown, we saw Kofi Kingston take on Bray Wyatt. Within just a few minutes, Wyatt won cleanly. Pretty standard stuff. Then on Raw this past week we were given an exact rematch, but it wasn't presented as a rematch. The announcers (two of them who had just witnessed their last match) made no mention that we had seen these same two men fight just three days before. Isn't that odd? Does WWE really think their audience can't remember anything from 72 hours ago? There's a lot of things I'd like to forget from WWE in a 72 hour span, but most of it will stick with me for the rest of my life. How many more times must I wake up screaming over the Katie Vick angle? Anyway, it's just incredibly lazy booking. All WWE needs to do is give Kofi a 5 second promo saying something to the effect of "You beat me on SmackDown Bray Wyatt, but I want another shot!" That's it, that's all it would take! It's not great, but then we would at least have a reason for a rematch, and not have to pretend that they just fought. But 5 seconds to Kofi would mean 5 less seconds of Stephanie McMahon and Hunter making out at the end of the show. Which would also mean 5 seconds less of me vomiting.
Andrew Soucek
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