It Worked: Interesting Change Made To This Week's Monday Night Raw Main Event

It wasn’t the first plan. There are all kinds of wrestling matches on television in any given week and most of them go as planned. That is due to planning in advance and knowing what the promotion wants to see out of the match. However, sometimes a company will make some changes, which was the case with a rather big match that took place earlier this week.

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The main event of this week’s Monday Night Raw was a six man gauntlet match, with the winner going on to challenge Gunther for the Intercontinental Title at WrestleMania 40. According to Fightful by way of Cagesideseats.com, the original plan called for Bronson Reed to start the match and then be eliminated by Sami Zayn, who would go on to win the match. Reed entered at #3 and eliminated Ricochet before Zayn entered at #4. it is not clear why the change was made.

It was a big match. Check out the three involved in the ring:

Opinion: This is the kind of thing that happens every so often, even if it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. The match would have worked well either way and what matters the most is to have Zayn set for the title shot. Beating Reed is a big enough deal and the match he had with Zayn worked out well enough, including Reed attacking Zayn after it was over.