This week's issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter was published overnight and I've just started to read it. There's a lot more information in it regarding the finish to this past Sunday's main event that wasn't covered in the audio shows in the hours following the event.
Firstly, I advise reading the following two posts, if you haven't done so already. This post was published shortly after Charlotte won the WWE Raw Women's Championship. I followed it up later that day with this post after finding out that Charlotte winning was reported to have been a change made sometime after Vince McMahon agreed for the match to be moved to the main event. Before that point, it was looking likely that Sasha Banks was going to retain the strap.
In the issue, Dave Meltzer mentions that 'at least one person in the inner circle said that McMahon changed his mind on the finish the day before the show, not the day of, and the few closest people to him were aware of it'. The story goes on to state that the producers were told something else when they met for the booking meeting. Yet, by Sunday, the actual finish was communicated to the producers.
Meltzer speculates that one possible reason why the team was misled on Saturday was to see how the betting odds moved once the incorrect information had been delivered to them. He wrote: 'swerving the producers isn't usual, but it has been done in the past like for the Undertaker-Brock Lesnar finish'. However, as I pointed out on Friday night, the bets came in on Charlotte as soon as the market was installed. This was obviosuly ahead of the Saturday when the misinformation was relayed. Regarding the Lesnar/Undertaker suggestion, money came in on Lesnar in the hours leading into WrestleMania XXX (You can read about it in this post), so - even if the booking team had been held away from the actual finishes in these two cases - there are still signs pointing to potential inside betting.
Ever since the spring of this year, the days when smart money have has been erratic and - in some cases - the results have missed. If management is going with an occasional plan of subterfuge, it should go without saying that it's very likely that the current trend of two or more closing outsiders getting the W is far from over.
The quotes are from the November 7th 2016 issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter
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