On Wrestling Observer Radio (subscribe here), Dave Meltzer spoke about a botched finish on RAW this week.
The match in question was between Elias and Ricochet. For those who missed it, Ricochet pinned Elias but the replay showed that his shoulders were not fully down.
According to Meltzer, this was not the planned finish and Ricochet was supposed to win the match clean. Here is what Meltzer said (h/t to Sportskeeda for the quote below):
“I went back and I checked – Is this an angle? The plan is to not take anything from it. Vince may insist on it later but it was, you know, the ref botched it. Elias botched it. Elias was supposed to keep his shoulders down. He just didn’t. I don’t know why and the ref counted to three, which he shouldn’t have and they called attention to it.
That’s Vince’s idea, if something like that happens we call attention to it because remember they’ve done that before where you think, okay, this has got to lead to something, it must have been an angle and those weren’t angles either. That’s Vince’s mentality when there is botch like that in a finish, the announcers have to acknowledge it for the announcers’ credibility and they have to do slow motion.”
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