4 Ups And 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 14th)

4. DOWN - That Was A PPV-Quality Match?

Let€™s be upfront here: on a Pole matches are never good. They just aren€™t. It probably would have been Newton€™s fourth law if he had ever seen a on a Pole match. So John Cena versus Dean Ambrose in an Anything Goes Contract on a Pole match was doomed to disappoint at the Hell in a Cell PPV later this month. Maybe that€™s why WWE decided to bump the match up to the main event of Raw Monday night. Recognizing that the match was going to suck anyway, they might have stuck it on free TV to get it out of the way and move on to the main two matches, which ended up being Ambrose-Rollins and Cena-Orton (Hey! A fresh matchup!), both inside Hell in a Cell. But a on a Pole match should have never been booked in the first place. This was a simmering side feud between Cena and Ambrose, and they settled it not by beating the crap out of each other (as Triple H implored them to do), but by Ambrose taking advantage of a mass run-in to grab the contract while Cena was distracted. Maybe Cena will come out next week and demand a rematch or goad Ambrose into putting his contract on the line €“ maybe he€™ll suggest it be inside a cell so the Authority can€™t interfere. But for now, all the buildup last week for a PPV match between Cena and Ambrose just fizzled in a seven-minute on a Pole match ended by a run-in distraction.