3. Main Event Madness
Wrestling gives us a lot of silly finishes. Its part of the fun, and its why we watch. They also give us a lot of non-clean finishes. This usually is to either protect a certain wrestler, or add another wrinkle to a storyline. While main event pay-per-views arent immune from this kind of nonsense, it still sucks when its the done too much. After all, if you watch Raw and SmackDown every week youre investing over 20 hours a month into their product. The pay-per-view main event should provide some closure for all that time devoted. WWE couldnt come up with a satisfactory finish for Undertaker vs. Lesnar, so we were given a pretty ridiculous ending. When does a timekeeper ever, EVER just decide to ring the bell on their own without a refs decision? Maybe Montreal in 1997? Otherwise, it's not a thing, except for this one convenient situation. SummerSlam gave us some main-event shenanigans, as did Battleground last month, and WrestleMania (as well as a couple others this year, at least no TVs have exploded in anyones face this year!). Basically, everything involving Brock Lesnar wont give you a clean finish. For the insane amount of money theyre paying him for such little work, youd expect a little more effort on their end to not book themselves into a no-win situation.
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
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