Can I get an "amen" from people who hate it when they see a well-wrestled, dramatic match end in a pointless, flash DQ?
*pauses for the congregation*
Thank you. Cena against Jericho should have been a Match of the Year candidate. It was looking like one up to the finish. I mean, both guys were hitting their spots. The crowd, which was dead for most of the night except to tell Steamboat that he still had it, was alive, electric and doing the classic Cena split. For once, the action in the ring felt like it matched up with the narrative from Cole and King (it being Jericho's final RAW match at least for a year). IT felt epic.
And then Edge came out and just interrupted what was shaping up as one of the year's signature spots.
Great, thanks WWE. Thanks for giving me the wrestling equivalent of blue balls. I know you have to build to the PPV, but couldn't it have waited until after the match was over? For Edge to either Pearl Harbor a victorious Cena or to kick a defeated Cena after he was down?
This is one of the WWE's biggest problems, one of the lingering ones from the Russo Era. They don't know how to consistently give quality finishes, especially on free TV. It's so sporadic the quality of a match finish, and usually, the more satisfying ones are found on ECW. But if you're going to give me a PPV quality match on free TV, go all out and give me a PPV quality finish. Otherwise, just make it a going-through-the-motions clusterfuck and give me the DQ finish there.
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