BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
I’ve not been into wrestling lately. I’m like any life-long fan. I go through phases of interest. There will sometimes be a few weeks, a few months, or even a few years in some cases when I just can’t find that much excitement in the WWE product. I’ll still casually watch. I’ll tune into RAW for a few minutes and check out what’s going on, I’ll read results, spoilers, news, columns, and basically just keep up on it. I still love professional wrestling and the WWE, but right now I’m just in one of those phases. This is my way of trying to take some of the blame off the show. Maybe I’m going into it with too high of expectations. I expect things to be engaging and interesting. I expect the envelope to always be pushed forward. That doesn’t mean “hardcore” or “edgy”, but at least “progressive”. There just isn’t enough engaging product on WWE right now. And when this happens and there is a million hours’ worth of new content every week its pretty much hell. I watch because I’m used to it, not because I look forward to it. That sucks.
Survivor Series was a let-down. I had to focus for a few minutes to remember what the last PPV was and what the main event was. Ryback’s rise is so boring and annoying to me that I’m starting to black out big chunks of the product. I get his push. He’s a big monster and kids seem to love him. That’s their demographic. I have no problem in characters that are okay for kids, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be accessible to adults, smarks, and anyone over the age of duh. I’m glad he’s not wrestling CM Punk. Instead we get Ryback teaming with Team Hell No against The Sheild. I’m excited as hell to see Dean Ambrose wrestle on my TV. He gets to debut in a match involving Daniel Bryan and it’s on pay per view AND it’s a TLC match. That is bad ass. Seth and Reigns get this treatment too. This is a match were Ryback can easily get the win and build him up a bit. He probably needs it. But at the same time this is a chance to debut “The Shield” strong and have them get the victory over someone other than Ryback. So I’m going with “The Shield”.
Two matches on the show that could have been fun ladder matches are the mid card titles. Kofi and Barrett has been a fun IC Title feud and probably the most entertaining story going on right now that actually translates to in-ring action. I’m thinking Barrett wins the title here. Antonio Cesaro is going to successfully defend his US Title against R-Truth. This would be the perfect time to combine these titles.
Big Show and Sheamus sounds bad on paper. It keeps happening and surprisingly it keeps being entertaining. Big Show could be wrestler of the year in 2012. This time it’s a Chairs Match and I’m looking forward to it. This will most likely result in my expectations being mocked. Big Show wins, I guess. Then Dolph Ziggler cashes in! He wins and then the match with Cena is turned into a Ladder Match for the title and is put on LAST. Cena wins. Fade out.
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