News on Gunther vs. Gable, why it wasn't on Payback (Patreon)

A WWE match with a pretty good build is happening on Raw instead of this weekend's WWE Payback PPV. 

We’re told that GUNTHER vs. Chad Gable happening on WWE Raw served to keep the WWE Payback runtime in order, get GUNTHER closer to the IC Title record with the threat of breaking it, and to highlight the match more than it would have been on a PLE.

WWE has been very particular over the last year of making sure that many of the WWE PLE event runtimes don't "overstay their welcome," especially ones that aren't larger stadium shows. This has caused many matches that would have previously been on PLE events to end up on WWE Raw. 

UNFORTUNATELY, A WWE source claimed that  Honky Tonk Man was never really considered for the Memphis WWE Raw, or GUNTHER chopping the shit out of him last week.