Its bad enough that the Axelmania/Macho Mandow tribute quickly devolved into parody, but when the match simply becomes an opportunity for announcers to work in as many insider jokes as possible, you know you have a horrible gimmick. JBL spent the entire match (all three minutes) burying the gimmicks and working in references to Nacho Man and the Huckster (from the then-WWFs Billionaire Ted sketches during the Monday Night War) and Fake Razor and Diesel (another Monday Night War-era deal). To top it off, the Ascension made short work of Curtis Axel and Damien Sandow, who both are infinitely more talented than Konnor and Viktor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnhFg2WM_VQ If this was the one and only appearance of the duo and this crushing defeat knocks them to their senses, then count this as a positive. But instead, well probably get three more weeks of this before the two split up and feud. WWE will probably have a Diva stand in for Miss Elizabeth too, just to make it worse.
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.
