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There's no way they're having Orton-HHH as the opening match without something else happening.

 

I also didn't think they would have Mark Henry-Undertaker as a main event over two championship matches.

 

CM Punk, with his hometown of Chicago going nuts over him, has a "match" with V that lasts a whopping 90 seconds thanks to Striker running in.

You can't make this shit up.

 

It's the WWE Way -- make the guy working his hometown lose/get embarassed to show him his place. You can't watch a Raw in Oklahoma City or Tulsa without seeing J.R. get mauled or have to kiss McMahon's ass.

 

So far it sounds like this PPV sucks the ballsweat off the rest of WWE's PPVs this year.

Beyond bad. Making it up on the fly and putting nobody over except HHH, who so far has jobbed out two of the main heels.

If Orton doesn't go over in the end, then Hunter Hearst McMahon is seriously fucked up in the head.

 

FWIW: Orton beat Trips for the WWE title. That's according to "always reliable" WWE Web site. I'm spending too much time typing this up. I was looking for Y2J news ... maybe Vince is saving him for TV. Yeah, that's fucking smart. Of course, VKM is a billionaire and I'm ... well ... uh ... never mind. My pocket book just looked at me and frowned.

 

Apparently HHH won the first match, then they did the Last Man Standing match and Orton won that one. At least they had Batista beat Khali. I wish they'd get rid of him.

 

I'm thinking McMahon was negotiating with Y2J until late in the day and that's why they didn't announce the main event.

Jericho may have been in the building, but if he didn't sign a contract, he wasn't going on the show.

 

With the double switch, I can kinda, sorta understand it to give Orton a chickenshit heel vibe (can only win after Umaga softens him up), but after HHH has spent all this time trying to de-Russo-fy the company (longer matches, etc.), he wins the title for 90 minutes only to give it right back to Orton? Just have Orton go over in the first place.

 

Having Jericho come in doesn't make sense on two fronts: 1. It ruins whatever they had planned for him, rushing him into an imperfect angle just to get him out there, and 2. You leave major surprise debuts for TV to build for the PPV. When Jericho makes his debut, it'll build interest and buys for Cyber Sunday. If you have him come out of nowhere, you don't get the benefit of having him produce any more buys.

Having Orton be awarded, lose and then regain the belt in three hours is wacky to the point of incomprehendible, but what's done is done.

Also, HHH wants to tie and eventually break Ric Flair's record for most world title reigns (WWE not counting Jerry Lawler's USWA/Memphis or Carlos Colon's WWC titles as "world" titles). This gets him a cheap reign to add to his record, and he'll probably regain the belt at Cyber Sunday in Hell in the Cell.

 

When will HHH do the one burial we'd all want to see -- Khali?

 

Ordered the PPV with a bunch of friends. Honestly...it was bad, but not THAT bad. It wasn't nearly as bad as it looked on paper.

The main event (the second Orton-HHH match, Falls Count Anywhere) was excellent and the best match I've seen since Cena-Orton at SummerSlam. Fast-paced, exciting, unpredictable especially the last 10 minutes or so. Orton took some really stiff shots, including the steel steps to the head which looked particularly vicious.

The first match between the two was good, but resembled more of a very good Raw main event than a PPV World Title match.

CM Punk-Big Daddy V was awful and lasted only like a minute. V should be wearing a shirt. He looked even more disgusting tonight than usual. He flopped on CM Punk a few times and then Striker came in and hit Punk. V went to town on Punk post-match and CM left coughing up blood and overselling his injuries with the crowd chanting "CM PUNK" loudly as he hobbled up the ramp. Just an absolute waste of time and embarrassingly booked, even though it was quick.

Some missed spots and a little short, but I enjoyed the six-man tag match. It was fun and Murdoch especially is just a great heel.

Triple H-Umaga: forgettable.

Finlay-Mysterio had a bullshit finish, but I actually liked it. Finlay pretended to be hurt after a hard fall to the outside, the ref did the dreaded arm-cross and while he was doing this, you could see visibly see Finlay was bullshitting this. The ref put him on a stretcher, Cole/JBL used the hush voice, and Mysterio was shaken up. As Rey had his back turned, Finlay leaped up and beat the shit out of him. These two appeared to have some solid chemistry in the ring.

Beth-Candice. ZZZ. Haven't been intrigued by the Women's Division since around WM 22 with Trish vs. Mickie.

Batista-Khali. It wasn't overly bad. It wasn't good either, but the very exciting finish added some points in my book. Although the whole concept of this match is absolutely laughable. There are trap doors that open for a minute at a time and you must escape and then a new one is open, or something ridiculous like that. Very TNA-like, way too gimmicky for my tastes. Seeing Khali climbing these very tall structures and Batista jumping from one to the other was...interesting. And different, and cool.

PPV -- I'd give it a C-. Nothing really special and not worth a watch, besides the main event, but then again there hasn't been a B-rated PPV since Backlash so this is your average WWE PPV. Disappointed that there was no sign of Jericho, besides another one of the "Saves Us" vignettes. Crowd did heavily chant "Y2J" during Vince and Regal's opening promo.