7 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (11 Oct)
3. Sh*ts & Cain
Cain Velasquez isn't brand spanking new to wrestling, having ran the ropes in Triple A as well as WWE's Performance Center before being trotted out on television for his blockbuster debut against Brock Lesnar.
By all accounts and scant clips, his grasp of the in-ring basics is reasonable. His grasp on a microphone simply shouldn't exist.
Best kept as the silence behind the violence, Cain was horrific in the Crown Jewel press conference earlier that day, and couldn't follow Paul Heyman's magnificent promo even with Rey Mysterio working as his ventriloquist.
It takes time and tenure to learn to be a great talker in WWE, but the company have rushed him to this stage so everybody gets paid the big bucks from a pile marked "blood money" backstage. They'll subsequently be judged in kind.