Good day to you all and welcome to We Want Insanity. I am your host for today, Matt Dawgs and this is my column. Today is the end of the work week and the time to look back at all the goings-on over the past seven days as I wrap it up with a bow and spout it out bit by bit. Buckle up. As previously noted, you can catch my OTHER COLUMN which is the “ WWE NETWORK PPV OF THE WEEK ” where I and 3 friends discussed an old WWE/WCW/ECW PPV from the archives. Join us NEXT SUNDAY (We are taking this week off) as we review WCW “Great American Bash 1989” and check it out to see if it is worth watching. Also check out this week’s “ THE QUESTION ” where James Guttman, James Bullock (why do we have two James writing for the site? We need to change his name to Mookie or something) and myself answer a random question each week.
MATT NOTE: Hope you all have a Happy Halloween today. Stay safe folks. Don't bring home any Ebola.
WWE NEWS AND NOTES:
- WWE presented their Hell in a Cell PPV this week and it was uninspiring to say the least. While the 2 cell matches did in fact deliver, one of them could have been anything but a cell match since it was more a street fight and the other was going exceptionally well until the finish. Ugh, that finish.
- From a wrestling/in-ring standpoint, the show was solid. Ziggler/Cesaro (although it could have used more time) and The Usos/Dust Brothers were good matches. Both Cell matches were good. Nikki vs. Brie was better than it had any right being. It was a decent but not GREAT PPV and then...that finish. UGH, again.
- While super short at 12 minutes for a 2 out of 3 falls match, please go watch Ziggler vs. Cesaro if you missed the PPV because the Super Plex spot was one of the most incredible spots I have ever seen in wrestling history. Cesaro is a BEAST as far as strength goes.
- If you were confused by the ending of the Ziggler/Cesaro match at HITC then be confused no more. Last Wednesday Cesaro conducted an interview in which he said THIS HERE. That was all that needed to be said to get the result he ended up getting. Remember when he won the “Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal” at Wrestlemania and it was hyped leading into it as being a thing and then he became a Paul Heyman guy the following night on RAW and everyone thought the rocket was going to get strapped to his back? HAHA!! Good times.
- I get that they need subscribers but Michael Cole burying fans as idiots for paying $54.95 for traditional PPV is mind blowing. Don’t insult fans.
- Sheamus and Miz was pure comedy. Do you remember when Sheamus was almost on John Cena’s level and Miz MAIN EVENTED a Wrestlemania? LOL.
- I fully believe that A.J. and Paige are going to feud for an entire calendar year.
- Cena and Orton was a fine match but honestly should have just been a street fight as noted above. It felt more like a brawl than a HITC match. I liked it and Orton with his RKO’s out of nowhere were fantastic. But I am honestly sick and tired of seeing them wrestle. It is crazy because I have always been an Orton fan and I don’t rag on Cena like most do because I can see his worth and he ALWAYS works hard in the ring despite his limits. But enough is enough. It was just a few years ago when they wrestled for the last time. Sigh.
- By the way, isn’t the point of a Hell in a Cell match to be brutality and as Mick Foley noted in the build up to Ambrose/Rollins, a match that changes your career win or lose? A match that takes years off of your “bump card” due to the viciousness? And as we saw in WWI’s WWE Network PPV of the Week REVIEW where we discussed Armageddon 2000 and the entire main event was built around how none of the 6 men going into the match would ever be the same regardless of the outcome, how come John Cena not only defeated Randy Orton at HITC on Sunday but walks out of the match unscathed, celebrates with the breast cancer survivors then high fives fans on the way out while celebrating as if he was in a regular match?
- I am not sure what else to say about the finish to the PPV. Ambrose and Rollins were having a fantastic match. All sorts of bells and whistles, a cool double table spot even before the match officially begun. It was awesome. Then my screen turned black ala the Sopranos’ finale. Not the arena blacked out (it did) but my screen. After some weird chanting and fog coming out of the RING ITSELF then Bray Wyatt appears. This was 1,000,000% lame. Ambrose absolutely needed the win in this match. But as DAVE MELTZER explained earlier this week, due to the Roman Reigns studio interview that aired on Monday, it is obvious that WWE does not see Ambrose as a top guy because Reigns is still getting a rocket strapped to his back therefore you cannot have the 4th babyface from the top once Orton turns shortly (5th when Daniel Bryan comes back) beating the top heel(Rollins). It doesn’t make sense from a booking perspective. So regardless of how he has been pushed for the past few weeks, Reigns is still the guy and all the momentum Ambrose has gotten and the reaction he gets from the fans still make him their chosen one.
- The Wyatt chanting that was going on while the lights were out was an old Bray Wyatt promo played backwards.
- With Ambrose and Rollins headlining the PPV, it marks the first time since NOVEMBER 1994 that two men under the age of 30 main evented a WWE PPV. The last time was Undertaker vs. Yokozuna in their casket match.
- When the match started on the roof, did Jerry Lawler really say right off the bat that no Hell in a Cell has ever started on top of the cage? Honestly, he didn’t say that. Did he? Like there is a zero percent chance those words came out of his mouth correct? I was totally hearing things right? It’s not like he was sitting RIGHT THERE AT RINGSIDE WHEN MICK FOLEY GOT THROWN OFF A HITC LANDING INCHES AWAY FROM HIM WHEN THEY STARTED THE MATCH ON TOP OF THE CAGE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!!!!!!!!!! There honestly is absolutely no excuse for something that simple. Jesus H. Christ.
- As for RAW, WWE tried to hit the reset button with
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