Huge changes to TLC - Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt out of PPV.

The viral meningitis outbreak has claimed another victim in Roman Reigns, putting the Shield's official reunion match on hold. Bray Wyatt is also out of the PPV.

At the TLC PPV we will now have:

'The Demon' Finn Balor vs AJ freakin Styles

And Kane, Strowman, Miz & the Bar vs Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and..

Kurt. Freakin. Angle.

Oh its true. Its damn true.

I’m...critical of this. Don’t jet angle in, he’s a huge selling point and the idea of him getting back into the ring should be a big story.

Also “giving away” Styles vs Balor.

I dunno, seems short sighted

I’m being hypercritical. If AJ and Finn get the reported length of time (ie it’s going long) then wwe may see that fans enjoy good wrestling.

And they’ve been a tough screwed by this (mumps?) outbreak. Anti-vaccers in the locker room

Not my original idea but the best option would have been to put Balor in the TLC Match in place of Reigns, and make another match lower down the card.

Maybe this is a sign that Angle was coming back to wrestle soon anyway. Rumble?

I would have picked almost anyone ahead of Angle. If he's going to wrestle again then his return bout should have been a much bigger deal.

That still didnt stop me fanboying a bit though.

The best one instead of Reigns in my head was Kassius Ohno, just because he was the planned 3rd Shield member before Vince etc pushed for Roman

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Dolphin Ziggler wrote:I’m...critical of this. Don’t jet angle in, he’s a huge selling point and the idea of him getting back into the ring should be a big story.

Completely agree.

I can't believe the overwhelming positive reaction this has got over the rest of the internet. No problem with Styles/Balor as the Wyatt/Balor angle was atrocious anyway and it can be framed as just a good, cool match up for fans within kayfabe.

Not a fan of Angle being brought in for this. It has devalued Angle's return to the ring, it has devalued the Shield return and that's a real shame. I can't even imagine Angle is in the kind of ring shape to do himself justice. Would have much rather seen him be a surprise Rumble return, as this would be a bigger story and the match format can protect him to a certain extent.

Crimey wrote:Would have much rather seen him be a surprise Rumble return, as this would be a bigger story and the match format can protect him to a certain extent.

What I'll say to this is its a 5 on 3 no DQ match, he'll have plenty of protection from the match format.

Angle was probably set for SS return

So one of the weirder bits of news (to me anyway) to come out of this story is that JoJo and Bray are a couple

To WWE’s credit, it’s definitely given the PPV a buzz and will probably be a crowd pleaser of an event now.

The card is now a lot better

AJ v Finn could turn into a full storyline if they wanted to given SS is a cross brand show

Who would you have the Club interfere for?

Not sure where to put this but it appears HHH has been wrestling on the south american live shows which implies he is warming up for a programme

Nope Kevin Owens had to leave the tour due to family reasons so Triple H stepped in.

Did someone die?

No idea, Nothing more has been said about it

Fernando wrote:Nope Kevin Owens had to leave the tour due to family reasons so Triple H stepped in.

HHH has been rumoured to be returning for a while, and back to Smackers.