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At Sunday Night’s Main Event last weekend, something shocking happened in the match between Bron Breakker and Oba Femi. It wasn’t a decisive win for either of them. Rather, it was a return of someone that really helped Breakker out.
After months away from the ring, Bronson Reed returned to give Femi four Tsunamis. Although his actions caused a disqualification win for Femi, The Vision was back at full strength for the first time since the beginning of the year. The next night, he gave two more Tsunamis to Femi, forcing him out of action.
In celebration of his return, the WWE YouTube channel uploaded another video to their WWE Playlist series. This time, they have a collection of big returns that shocked everyone as they laid out other wrestlers. Some were major wrestlers that impacted a storyline, and some were just big wrestlers. This video will get fans excited for the next big return.
This was a cool video showcasing how happy the fans are when someone who’s been out of action for months finally comes back. Sometimes they come back in great shape like Reed who has lost 100 pounds. Other returns happen when wrestlers return from other companies, which is great to see as well.
One recent return was Big Cass’s from last month. He spent nine years away from the company, with time spent in both TNA and AEW. His return has been good, even if he’s just been attacking Je’Von Evans. The first feud back for him will be nice to watch.
One return that wasn’t in this video was Cody Rhodes returning at the 2023 Royal Rumble to win after tearing his pectoral muscle. Like Big Cass, Cody spent years away and has since become a major star for WWE. When someone returns after years out of WWE, fans get nostalgic while also being happy that new memories will be created.
Overall, this was a good video that showed how much impact returns can have for wrestlers in WWE. It doesn’t matter if you’re returning from injury, like Reed or Rhea Ripley, or if you’re returning after being away from the company, like Big Cass or Braun Strowman, the fans welcome you back with cheers as they know a return means new opportunities and storylines that can now happen.
That said, there are some returns that weren’t included in this video that were very important to storylines. A lot of those happened at the Royal Rumble in years past, such as Cody winning the men’s Royal Rumble in 2023 and Edge coming back to get revenge on the members of the Judgment Day the same year, leading to the steel cage match between him and Finn Balor’s demon persona.
Watching some of the older WWE footage is fascinating such as Big Show and Kane returning in separate instances more than a decade ago and what is similar and different in terms of how WWE TV looked at the time and how fans reacted.
Whenever someone returns to immediately even the odds, the storyline that comes from it is extremely excited for them and the fans, so it’s no surprise WWE emphasized that and helped fans remember past instances in a video featured on their YouTube channel this week.
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