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Kurt Angle Needs a Gavel and Scissor Lift With All This Bad News

So, does Kurt Angle do anything besides shill WrestleMania these days? With all the PR work he’s doing on a daily basis, I don’t think he’s going to be ready to get in the ring in four weeks. Maybe WWE should just pull the trigger on intergender and let Ronda Rousey go HAM on both Stephanie and Triple H.

But I’m afraid Angle does have some bad news – Brock Lesnar is not going to appear on Raw tonight. Again. Honestly, it’s a bold move, but I love it. It gives Reigns a chance to actually carry the feud on his own. If he’s going to be The Guy, he’s going to have to do that on the regular. So let him do it. The WrestleMania card is stacked as of right now, so it’s not like Brock “no-showing” Raw and Roman carrying the weight is going to hurt viewership.

And now that Reigns has had the ball handed to him, he is running with it full speed. In another promo that breaks the non-existent fourth wall, Roman brings some new blood into the proceedings – Vince McMahon himself. WHERE’S MY POPCORN? Reigns says there’s no repercussions for Lesnar skipping out on work because he’s “Vince’s boy,” and Vince doesn’t have the courtesy to tell Roman himself that Brock isn’t here.

Look, I get that this is a work – and by now, there should be no doubt from anyone. But it’s entertaining as hell – especially when Roman barges into gorilla and threatens a 70-year-old man. Vince, ever the curmudgeon, orders the show to go to commercial as he and Roman head to Vince’s office to “discuss” things.

I love this. I think it may finally help get the fans more solidly behind Reigns – the working man, I guess. As long as WWE doesn’t try to just make him a facsimile of Steve Austin, it’ll be great. Let Roman be Roman, and the post-Mania landscape will be wonderful.