11 Hot Takes On This Week In Wrestling (Dec 28)

5. The End Of MexAmerica

Talking of Del Rio versus Swagger, I'm begging for this feud to be over, now that Del Rio has beaten Swagger clean yet again on RAW this week. Don't get me wrong: I like the pairing a whole lot, in principle. Two big bruisers with great timing and stiff styles, similar amateur wrestling backgrounds and submission finishes running at each other full tilt... the chairs at TLC were completely unnecessary, let's put it that way. But the storyline made no sense, so the in-ring stuff was never going to work. Del Rio was a heel, and the MexAmerica angle was designed to get heel heat for Del Rio... but Zeb Colter was a babyface about presenting it. Jack Swagger, on the other hand, was trying to get Zeb to go back to the way things used to be. That's... hating immigrants, right? Which would be a heel position, except Swagger was still a babyface, and the whole angle was sold as if he was trying to tempt his mentor back from the dark side. Apparently 'the dark side' included tolerance and racial integration, which was the basis for the MexAmerica angle. I've just re-read my own paragraph and I don't understand what I've just written. It was never explained what the endgame of MexAmerica was. No hints were dropped as to where it might go. It began the night after Del Rio returned and won the United States Championship, when you would have thought that pursuing the US title would have been a pretty good objective for the storyline. And as suddenly as it arrived, MexAmerica was gone. Goodbye, random bullsh*t fake country. We barely knew ye. Talking of the TLC chairs match though, our own Jack had the right idea. Missed a trick there, 'WWE the people'.