5 Unlikely Things that Lana was going to say to Aiden English

2. I’ve lost my smile

What if Lana, like Shawn Michaels, lost her smile?

Shawn Michaels is back for an unexpected epilogue to his storied career, which causes long time fans to think back to their memories from yesteryear. One of the more infamous moments of Michaels’s career came when he relinquished the WWE Championship in early 1997, citing that he’d “lost his smile.” The moment was fraught with controversy. It was, ostensibly a cover for a nagging knee injury, but read to a lot of his colleagues like he was making up an excuse to not have to lose the title in the ring—something that it’s theorized he was supposed to do with Bret Hart as his opponent at WrestleMania, as a receipt for the previous year.

Lana doesn’t have any sort of title ramifications attached to her, but citing that she’d lost her smile in her marriage with Rusev, or in losing Aiden English as their partner in crime could offer a wink toward Shawn Michaels’s return and begin to explain Lana apparently coming on to English.