News on The Miz & Ziggler in The WWE World Cup & Strowman’s Loss

One of the reasons Dolph Ziggler made it all the way to The Finals Of The WWE World Cup Tournament in The Monday Night RAW side of things instead of Seth Rollins, Bobby Lashley or Kurt Angle is because of his eventual loss to Shane McMahon in the end. WWE did not want to weaken any of the aforementioned competitors but they are okay with Ziggler taking a loss at Shane’s expense.

 

Similarly, The Miz made it all the way to the finals because of the eventual plan to remove him from the match in favor of Shane. WWE did not want Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio or Jeff Hardy to look “weak” by not being able to continue the match but nobody objected to this happening with The Miz.

 

Finally, Rey Mysterio losing to The Miz in The Semi-Finals of The WWE World Cup Tournament surprised a lot of people especially those people who thought that WWE would push Mysterio and certainly not have him lose so quickly on TV. WWE’s apparent way to protect Mysterio was to have Orton attack him after their Quarter-Final Match, thereby “weakening” him and letting The Miz go over Mysterio, who was supposed to be perceived at as not being at 100%. The same situation played out in The WWE Universal Title Match with Baron Corbin attacking Braun Strowman before his match against Brock Lesnar, which is again WWE’s way of telling the story that Lesnar beat a clearly not-at-his-best Strowman.