10 Things We Learned From WWE Raw In The UK (May 8)
3. PoocHHHie
Of all the ways WWE's content overload impacts modern philosophies within the company, surely the biggest issue is the fascination with using a full-blooded match to build to an identical contest at a later date.
So to Samoa Joe and Seth Rollins then, as Monday Night Raw houses two of the most talented all-rounders in the industry and appears content to just let them wrestle ad nauseum in lieu of any particular reason beyond increasingly tenuous links to the still-slayed Triple H.
Back when The Simpsons was a culturally relevant enterprise, an episode featured the insertion of 'Poochie' alongside Itchy and Scratchy to boost the show's flagging ratings. When the transparent ploy predictably failed, Homer posited that when the irritating third wheel wasn't around, other characters should be talking about him in order to build importance. The imbecilic suggestion was intentionally positioned as a flawed and stupid attempt to keep the character alive.
20 years later, and Triple H is Poochie.
Robbed of motivation beyond constantly talking about, slaying, defending or fighting over 'The Game's honour, Samoa Joe and Seth Rollins will just keep having matches while engaging in a slap-fight of who's doing a better job in their side-project with Triple H. Who was supposedly vanquished back at WrestleMania anyway.
In The Simpsons, Poochie was 'sent back to his home planet' in a hilariously aggressive write-off. In WWE's canon, defeat at the 'Show of Shows' has somehow involved 'The King of Kings' even more.