5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Madison Square Garden 2015
2. Night Of Champions Redux
WWE did a nice job playing up the Dudley Boyz Tag Team Championship match against New Day, making it look like winning the titles was a strong possibility, even the duos destiny. Instead, the match ended the same way that it did two weeks earlier at Night of Champions, with Xavier Woods causing a disqualification by breaking up a Dudleys pinfall attempt. If WWE was going to pull the trigger on a record 10th tag title reign for the Dudleys, Saturday at MSG was the time and place to do it. But if they arent going to give Bubba Ray and D-Von the belts, then New Day should have actually gotten a pinfall victory (whether its through cheating or clean is immaterial) rather than just prolonging the feud. The Dudleys reunion tour in WWE was a nice idea, but having them win matches by DQ and then getting their heat back by beating up the guy who more or less is the manager isnt a memorable way to go out.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
