Why WWE Pulled Alberto Del Rio And Christian From WrestleMania

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WWE sources have confirmed that Christian was pulled from the WrestleMania 28 Team Laurinaitis vs. Team Long match because of issues with his ankle. The decision to pull Christian was made early on Monday.

Regarding Alberto Del Rio being pulled, WWE officials looked at the 12-man match and felt that Del Rio didn't fit in it. They are planning on pushing Del Rio soon and didn't want him in a match that will be full of comedy and other shenanigans. With that said, it's interesting to note that they kept guys like Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and The Miz in the match.

It's said that WWE has something grander planned for Del Rio this year. Instead of returning in the 12-man match, officials want Del Rio to have a more dramatic return to the company. Even though he recently participated in the angle with John Laurinaitis, the original plan was to do Del Rio vs. Randy Orton at WrestleMania and sources report that the Orton vs. Del Rio feud is still planned. The decision to pull Del Rio was made in the last week some time.

Despite being pulled from the match, expect Del Rio and Christian to appear in a backstage WrestleMania segment or Del Rio could even work the dark match.

boschbourne06 wrote:

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It's said that WWE has something grander planned for Del Rio this year. Instead of returning in the 12-man match, officials want Del Rio to have a more dramatic return to the company.

boschbourne06 wrote:

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Despite being pulled from the match, expect Del Rio and Christian to appear in a backstage WrestleMania segment or Del Rio could even work the dark match.

OK then.....

boschbourne06 wrote:

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in a match that will be full of comedy and other shenanigans.

There shouldn't be any comedy and shenanigans as its a match for control of Raw and Smackdown so it should have featured the best people possible and not Santino, Khali etc

What I'm hoping from this is a screwy finish in which HHH declares on Raw the next night that there is no clear permanent GM for both Raw and Smackdown. Teddy withdraws all of his wrestlers from Raw and the shows become segregated again but now there is some serious bad blood between the 2 shows and hopefully a greater brand separation because of this

thing is arn't some members of each team on different brands so its not just a simple case of Raw Vs Smackdown

could teddy win but then the anonymous raw GM actually makes an appearance reveling they were the anonymous raw GM on the computer and have been chucked away from raw cos of John Laurinaitis and now there taking full control

dont think WWE expect us to remember there was an annoymous gm

What computer

hodge13 wrote:

thing is arn't some members of each team on different brands so its not just a simple case of Raw Vs Smackdown

You're right. The whole brand extension is essentially over now. Just look at the roster page on the new-look WWE.com. There's no Raw and Smackdown rosters now. Everyone's just grouped together. I think this match will put the final nail in the coffin for the two brands.

WM29 unification match for world titles? 1 roster, 1 title