Well, two weeks after their incredibly “okay” Night of Champions PPV, World Wrestling Entertainment presents its first of two October PPVs, Hell In A Cell. Are you one of the lucky suckers… er, I mean, customers who paid fifty to sixty bucks on a PPV comprising a whole FIVE MATCHES? Boy, that’s a real bang for your buck. No wonder people aren’t forking over their hard-earned money to buy WWE Pay-Per-Views.
Anyways… let’s get to the goods.
It’s the Night Of Champions! Where all the championships are on the line! And there’s a couple other matches on the card too.
Tonight’s WWE Fatal Four Way Pay-Per-View is brought to you by the letter F, the letter A, the letter I, and the letter L. What do those letters spell? F.A.I.L.
Because when you’re running low of stupid gimmick PPVs, you do one after a match where four guys fight each other for a pin… or to be more realistic, two guys fight while the other two pretend to be incapacitated until it’s their turn to do stuff. Fatal 4-Ways are often a lazy attempt to get as many guys (or gals) in a match as possible and trying to make them interesting has been a tall order.
Spoiler alert: This didn’t get the job done.
Besides that, the only thing that is remotely worth a damn is to catch for whatever follow-up to the NXT invasion bit might come up, even if the shine has since been dulled. I mean, seriously; Bryan Danielson or no Bryan Danielson, WWE had a goldmine with this thing and not even a week later, in the first segment no less, they fucked it up. They’re going to need to do something BIG in order to recover from that.
(Spoiler alert from the future: They never did.)
But enough about FAIL. Let’s talk about the PPV and discuss the matches:
HEY KIDS! We’re going Over The Limit! YAAY!
Nope, not doing it for me.
So on the eleventh anniversary of Owen Hart’s accidental passing (and no acknowledgement is made of this fact… possibly due to upsetting the widow), WWE held a PPV in Detroit with one of the lamest names ever… oh wait, the next one is called Fatal 4-Way, isn’t it? Aw shit.
Oh well, let’s get on with it, then.
For the original predictions page that this page is replacing, click here.
Good news for WWE – The RAW brand had made it back to America this past Wednesday night after being stuck in Europe due to volcanic activity in Iceland. Thus ensuring that the Extreme Rules PPV will continue as advertised.
Bad news for WWE – They lost a potential buyer of their PPV… alright, so I was never planning on buying the PPV, but man, that would have made for a fun time if half the PPV had to be scrapped on the fly due to the RAW crew being stuck in Europe due to additional volcanic activity or something.
In any case, here are my thoughts on this show. (Along with some 2018 notes for posterity.)
I’m trying to figure out whether this is a decent trade-off.
Last year and years prior, WWE held a PPV called Cyber-Sunday – originally called Taboo Tuesday – where WWE fans would have their say on what happens in certain matches… i.e. who does the champion face, what stipulation between two men are there, what silly costume do the Divas wear in order for us to care about them, and so on and so forth. It was a novel concept, but for some reason – possibly something to do with sales being shit – WWE decided to drop that PPV in favor of Bragging Rights, which is touted as a Smackdown vs Raw encounter, but only ends up being one match billed as such… and a Divas match.
So, WWE has gone off the deep end with these stipulation-themed pay-per-views as of late. First it was Breaking Point, where the main events were all either submission matches or I Quit matches. And now WWE has decided to have a Hell In A Cell PPV, where you’re guaranteed multiple HIAC matches in one night. So rather than being this “last
Like the previous PPV, only the top matches are worthy of being held in the Cell, with the rest being the usual matches.
Here’s how out of touch I am with the current WWE product: there was apparently a PPV last night and I had forgotten about it. Oh well, to make up for the lacks of a predictions sheet, here’re the results:
Watched a bit of RAW and… well… I couldn’t stay awake Monday – the show bored me to a point where I actually felt like going to bed much earlier. I think that takes some effort when a show actually puts me to sleep and trust me when I say I usually have a hard time getting myself into sleep central.
So if RAW has anything to celebrate, it’ll probably be that. Because the ratings (from what I’ve heard) won’t be the source of joy this week.
I had PPV predictions to post, but shit happens and you know…
So anyway, here’re the results of the show if you haven’t seen it yet:
I guess if you try hard enough, you’d eventually make it back to the wrestling ring one more time and reclaim your own title. In that respect, welcome back, Michael Buffer.
Oh yeah, Cena’s back too.
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