If I were WWE Creative, and trust me, I'd be awesome at it and would quit within a month because I probably would melt under the burning, barking orders of Vince McMahon, I wouldn't let Rock and John Cena talk at all until WrestleMania. I would have them stare at each other. Maybe I'd Teddy Long that shit and put them in tag matches. Hell, I might have them take turns hooking up car batteries to family members' nipples. Then again, Johnny Fabulous might enjoy that. But yeah, tonight, both guys went out on the mic, put the homophobia and misogyny on the shelf, and attacked their main event at Mania the way good wrestlers do.
We've seen better from Cena. I'm not sure we have seen more topical from Rock. Better is a relative term given that it's hard to go back and trash classic Rocky because we were all different people back when the Attitude Era was going on. But I don't trust Rock to go out there and be serious or to lay off the sing-songy bullshit for five more weeks. I think there's a better chance for Cena do play it straight, but who the hell knows. But tonight? Yeah, that was fun. It was what a WrestleMania main event should be, crystallized into an interview confrontation, well at least one that wasn't the culmination of several months of personal animosity bubbling over into one fight to settle the score. Man, when was the last time WWE had one of those at Mania though? I think it's time we started to attack the myth of it being an endpoint to their year. It's basically "their big event," and they really have no rhyme or reason to it, I suppose.
But when stuff makes sense or feels important, well, then the atmosphere gets special. I know this probably wasn't the beginning to an epic CM Punk/Undertaker Streak match that people had in mind. That being said, the Streak right now is the second most important title in the company. Punk, Randy Orton, Big Show, and Sheamus all appeared and wanted to lay their claim to that title. The match for the right to fight him was the main event of a big deal RAW. I think it'll do for now.
Tonight wasn't a perfect RAW, but it was satisfying on many fronts. It now feels like we're on the road to WrestleMania, and I think it ought to be a good five weeks. But it'd be perfect if the last memory of words from the guys in the main event were spoken tonight. Then again, we all know that isn't going to happen.
We've seen better from Cena. I'm not sure we have seen more topical from Rock. Better is a relative term given that it's hard to go back and trash classic Rocky because we were all different people back when the Attitude Era was going on. But I don't trust Rock to go out there and be serious or to lay off the sing-songy bullshit for five more weeks. I think there's a better chance for Cena do play it straight, but who the hell knows. But tonight? Yeah, that was fun. It was what a WrestleMania main event should be, crystallized into an interview confrontation, well at least one that wasn't the culmination of several months of personal animosity bubbling over into one fight to settle the score. Man, when was the last time WWE had one of those at Mania though? I think it's time we started to attack the myth of it being an endpoint to their year. It's basically "their big event," and they really have no rhyme or reason to it, I suppose.
But when stuff makes sense or feels important, well, then the atmosphere gets special. I know this probably wasn't the beginning to an epic CM Punk/Undertaker Streak match that people had in mind. That being said, the Streak right now is the second most important title in the company. Punk, Randy Orton, Big Show, and Sheamus all appeared and wanted to lay their claim to that title. The match for the right to fight him was the main event of a big deal RAW. I think it'll do for now.
Tonight wasn't a perfect RAW, but it was satisfying on many fronts. It now feels like we're on the road to WrestleMania, and I think it ought to be a good five weeks. But it'd be perfect if the last memory of words from the guys in the main event were spoken tonight. Then again, we all know that isn't going to happen.