For those who want him gone permanently, I have a feeling you'll end up disappointed. Big Show will doubtless return in some capacity. If he were to retire, they would turn him back face somehow and give him one last run first, to make his retirement meaningful. We may not enjoy his work much, if at all, anymore, but Show is a solid worker and, by all accounts, an extraordinarily nice guy and WWE will make a big deal of his retirement (after all, he was the first guy to hold the WWE, WCW, and ECW Championships), just like they will when Y2J eventually retires for good (as should happen for the first-ever Undisputed Champion).
The fact that he wasn't on Raw last week could mean something or it could mean that he's taking a little break. The guy's a 7'0, 450-pound, 40-year-old man. Maybe he's just taking time off until after NoC, maybe he's taking longer, maybe he just didn't appear last week. We'll see in the near future. What I can say is that not a whole lot was mentioned about his whereabouts on the air, which suggests to me that he won't be a part of the story surrounding the WWE Championship at NIght of Champions. That's good, because this story doesn't need more (or less) than CM Punk and John Cena, the two longest-reigning WWE Champions in a very long time. Big Show would just muddle the story and I think WWE actually cares about telling this story and telling it well.
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im not sure why he wasn't there. i hope theyre not including him in the title storyline anymore.
