- 12/16/2013 (2:17:09 pm)
- Bob Mulrenin
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While the Mrs. was watching the Steelers win on Sunday Night Football on NBC, I was in my office watching WWE TLC on my PC. The watching online biz worked just fine by the way. I did not write down any notes but these are the things that stuck in my mind from Sunday's PPV in Houston:
Hot start with CM Punk and the Shield. a creative match with a surprising outcome that kept Punk 'good' and furthered the apparent dissension within the ranks of the trio. This matched challenged the balance of the card to follow them which I love. If I'd had a say this is the match that I would have chosen to kick off the show too. Good call in my book.
The late, Eddie Guerrero was once highly pissed when he had to open a PPV and felt insulted. He wasn't in the main event that night and I had to sit with him and explain his role for that particular PPV. He got it and essentially stole the show and soon found himself going on later in the card on PPV events. Going on first did not affect Eddie's pay and it set the bar for all that followed to attempt to reach.
Next order of business is many fans will second guess the strategy of what seems to be the Shield getting close to imploding. I have no issues with that particular creative matter and no crystal ball to determine if it will be successful or not. My guess is that it is a good thing and should enhance Reigns, Ambrose and Rollins who, in time, are all main event level talents.
WWE TV production personnel did their usual stellar job with the video packages and I loved seeing the champions package and felt that it gave much needed historical info to the viewers. I'd guess that many fans watching today don't even know who many of the greats of the game are and have to be educated on men like Lou Thesz and Buddy Rogers.
AJ Lee vs. Natalya was an extremely solid, Divas match but it should have gone on later in the show IE trading places w/ Brodus vs. Truth. Nonetheless if the Divas strive to be thought of as more than sizzle and support players then having matches akin to AJ vs. Nattie will help their cause.
Big E vs. Sandow was what I thought it would be and I thought it was fine for what it was positioned to be at TLC. Big E winning with his finish was the right thing to do.
Forecast that the Fatal 4 Way might be the sleeper on the PPV and it arguably was. Happy that WWE made it an elimination rules tag bout as I also wrote about in a pre TLC blog. The elimination rules makes for a better story and the elimination of teams makes the match 'cleaner' as it leads to the conclusion. The Rhodes Brothers are the best thing to happen to the WWE tag team scene in a long time.
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