6 Ups And 6 Downs For WWE Day 1

3. Not A PPV Match

This is not meant to be a knock against Madcap Moss – other than his crappy name – but why was his match against Drew McIntyre on PPV? Were they that hard up for content for Day 1?

The feud involving McIntyre and Happy Corbin obviously is all about those two locking up – again. Moss is the underling who provides a go-between to stretch the rivalry out and give Corbin a better chance of winning when they finally go at it.

But a match between Moss and McIntyre is nothing more than a TV bout, not something that belongs on PPV. Even if you say that TV is more highly valued these days, PPVs are monthly events that are built to over the course of several weeks. Moss, who has wrestled in seven matches in the past two-plus months and lost six of them, wasn’t going to score a career upset here. He’s a sidekick in a (bad) comedy act.

The match itself wasn’t bad, but it was little more than a TV match, not something for PPV.