#2. WWE has done this in the past

It's no secret that WWE has pulled this trick in the past with a variety of Superstars and it almost always leads to something interesting down the line. For example, who could forget when CM Punk sat down at the entrance ramp on Raw to announce to the world that his contract was up in the next few weeks and he planned on taking the WWE title with him?
If nothing else, this was the perfect mix of fiction and reality, which really got the fans invested into the magic of it all from the get-go. Fortunately for the WWE Universe, it looks like the company is preparing to explore this again, in one way or another, and it could lead to a variety of booking options.
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What WWE plans to do from here remains to be seen and will depend on what their intention is with telling fans that Lynch's contract is up. With that being said, however, everything WWE does has a reason behind it and there is no way they would bring up someone's contract status without it leading to something huge.