Having done quite a few of these "Year That Was" Wrap Ups now, I should know better than to kick things off with "What a Crazy Year It's Been!" So I won't. Except that I already sort of have. In a way. So to hell with it. It's been a year, folks. And this is when we all look back at take stock of the highs and lows of the past (almost) 365 days in wrestling.
As we leave things, the Slammys just occurred. The WWE's own time to revisit their year and waste hours of our lives with a show that should, by now, be a separate entity on the Network and not a ceremony that occupies RAW - especially given the great RAW they had the week prior. Not a great way to capitalize on the momentum. And since Smackdown doesn't really count as a show that anyone considers to be a true RAW follow-up, this was their chance to keep the viewers/ratings that the post-TLC RAW brought. And to keep those great creative fluids a'flowin.
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As we leave things, the Slammys just occurred. The WWE's own time to revisit their year and waste hours of our lives with a show that should, by now, be a separate entity on the Network and not a ceremony that occupies RAW - especially given the great RAW they had the week prior. Not a great way to capitalize on the momentum. And since Smackdown doesn't really count as a show that anyone considers to be a true RAW follow-up, this was their chance to keep the viewers/ratings that the post-TLC RAW brought. And to keep those great creative fluids a'flowin.
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