10 Reasons Why People Who Hate WWE Hate WWE
3. Plot Hole City
In an age in which there is disproportionate in-ring action, WWE's inability to craft unique stories leads them to build wrestling matches via wrestling matches, doubling down on the deadening effect.
Again, consider Natalya Vs. Charlotte from Hell In A Cell. The result negated their encounter on the previous episode of SmackDown, which itself was problematic. Natalya cleanly tapped Charlotte out. Carmella's distraction allowed Natalya to apply the Sharpshooter in the first place, but she took an eternity to recline into it. It wasn't opportunistic; it was methodical. That match might as well have not happened. Ditto Hell In A Cell; after dominating more or less the entire 12 minute duration, Natalya, apparently threatened by Charlotte's mettle, intentionally disqualified herself. The woman she cleanly swatted aside five days prior was fighting on one leg, and she decided to virtually guarantee a rematch instead of successfully putting her away - something of which she was evidently capable.
The SmackDown doubles match was meant to cast doubt over Sunday's outcome. The Hell In A Cell finish existed purely, against all established storyline logic, to prolong the feud, the intrigue and drama surrounding which barely exists anymore because we've been conditioned to receive it as meaningless.
Dig deeper, and the plot holes render escape impossible. Jinder Mahal has relied on interference to win no less than four of his major PPV title matches this year. Nothing within storylines acts as a deterrent to his actions. Of all people, he escaped the Cell on Sunday. We've seen a heel take an intentional count-out or disqualification in every SmackDown PPV since WrestleMania. Nobody has been fined, suspended nor forced to relinquish their title. It's dramatically deflating and bereft of logic.
If retaining a title is as easy as walking out on a match with no repercussions, why doesn't everybody do this all the time?