WWE clearly wanted to have the face team emerge victorious from the PPV elimination match, which is fine. When you dont have a really solid storyline, sometimes you just make the fans happy. But if youre going to book that, then dont take a lazy shortcut like WWE did Sunday night. With Big E eliminated from the match, it was three-on-three momentarily. Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods decided that they needed to take E to the back because he was hurt. They of course never returned, leaving Sheamus to fend for himself against Ryback, Jey Uso and Kalisto. Sure, it was cute in some ways, but having your tag champs walk out of a fair fight (maybe if it was five-on-three it would have made more sense) was just silly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbO59w7hgck If this somehow translates into the Usos and Lucha Dragons lobbying for tag title shots, then thats one thing. But this was just taking the path of least resistance to reach a conclusion. If youre going to book a match, then dont be afraid to book it right.
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.
