BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
I’m not excited about Hell In a Cell at all. If I miss it, I won’t be heart broken. I’ve actually had a few weeks here where I’ve only watched maybe twenty minutes of RAW a week. I read the results, I watch clips, and I read the columns. I don’t need to spend three hours on a tiresome Monday, two hours on a fun Friday, or really ANY time sitting there and being disappointed. The only reason to watch RAW these days is for that ONE or TWO matches. There is typically one or two matches that are pretty decent and get time to run a good story. It’s just not worth the effort. WWE is becoming more and more like TNA. It’s got a great young roster that’s not being used right. And if they are being “used right”, they’re not making us really care. There is genuine interest in the Rhodes/Shield stuff but other than that it’s crap. The main event feels forced and spiteful and this Punk/Heyman story is forgettable in the making.
So that leaves this show. I can’t help but think that The Shield are going to take the belts right back from the Rhodes. It would get tons of heat and add a lot of fuel to the fire. I don’t care about the Divas title match at all, but I guess Brie Bella wins because she’s featured on the “reality show”.
I have no desire to see the theatrics of Punk vs. Ryback and Heyman. It’s sorta sad that Heyman and Punk will probably have to carry Ryback here. I really like how Ryback is progressing, but this match is really unappealing. They’re trying REALLY hard to give Heyman and Punk all of these pseudo-Bobby Hennan-like moments but it’s not working. All three people involved with this would be better off in other programs working with different people. I’m tired of the same Punk and Paul promos each week. As profound as both think they are, it’s the same soup just reheated. Ryback and Heyman win via shenanigans.
John Cena will beat Alberto Del Rio NARROWLY. Then Alberto will lock on his arm lock gimmick, further destroying Cena’s “back too soon” injury… enter Sandow! Sandow then takes out Cena and gets a huge rub in the process. If THIS happens I’m all for it, but I have a bad feeling this will not be as cool as I’d like.
The main event is Orton and Bryan again. I like their matches a lot, but the finishes are screwy so it takes away from anything that happens in them. I’d like to see one definitive match between these guys where there is one decisive winner with no outside interference. It just takes away from the build up between these two. I’m going to say there’s no decisive winner. When is the blow off? It won’t be here so why get excited? Oh, because Daniel Bryan is in a cell! That’s why! Yeah. I DO want to see this match, but I’m not getting my hopes up. You just can’t make that mistake anymore. If you get your hopes up for anything WWE related these days you’re going to get your heart broken.
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