3 moments you may have missed on RAW this week (December 17, 2018)

Here are a few moments you may have missed from this week's edition of RAW (Dec. 17)
Here are a few moments you may have missed from this week's edition of RAW (Dec. 17)

#1: The ultimate irony behind RAW's big shakeup

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Vince McMahon's huge announcement certainly had a lot of ironies embedded within
Vince McMahon's huge announcement certainly had a lot of ironies embedded within

By now, everyone knows that things are going to 'shake up' following Vince McMahon's announcement on RAW.

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Fans will get to see new talent, better matchups and a more creative approach to the show itself, after all, RAW has managed to stay afloat by constantly evolving for 25 years, as Vince McMahon said, even if many aspects of the show remain the same since its inception (Irony number #1).

The McMahon family vowed to put an end to the authoritarian approach to RAW's decision-making. But for those who didn't notice, all members of the McMahon family are the biggest authoritarian figures in WWE itself! (Irony number #2)

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By crossing a few boundaries and looking at this situation from a real-world perspective, the McMahon family announcing themselves as sole decision makers on both brands to make things great again is nothing but a fictional representation of a fact we have known since years: The McMahon's were and always will be the ones making decisions all along (behind the scenes), and general managers on the show, like Mick Foley, Kurt Angle and former Acting General Manager Baron Corbin are nothing but characters representing themselves as 'decision makers' in the kayfabe world of Professional Wrestling (Irony number #3).

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Truthfully, the aftermath that is set to follow the big reveal of 'shaking things up' will be quite interesting to observe in the upcoming few weeks. It was quite clever on WWE's part to put all of the creative blame on Baron Corbin, a man that everyone now loves to hate...

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