Is it wrong to wish a Shawn Michaels 1998 type injury on cena so that they have to at least try to make new stars as opposed to feeding everyone to him the way they have since 2005? I mean 1 slipped disk and 2 crushed ones would be horrible, but the product really feels like 1999-2001 WCW status with him devouring everyone and everything and nobody getting to shine. shyt like this is why sting never signed before and why punk quit without warning.
Ironically enough, it's actually Orton who seems to be halfway to a Shawn Michaels-esque back injury at this point. Dude was moving like he was in quicksand at points last night. Really slow, very stiff and he looked to be in pain at points when pressure was applied directly to his lower back. The guy might need to take a few months off to heal.
Where is this idea coming from? Do we not recall the OG Hell In a Cell?
There are things that folks WANT to happen so that they can be satisfied for that particular moment and then there are things that keep the show rolling and make money. We've got to avoid confusing the two, brehs.
How does NOT giving a rising babyface comeuppance in his first main event (in a HIAC match, no less) after a molten hot 5 month feud make anyone money? Because, to me, it looks like they just took a hot babyface and killed his momentum for no good reason. That's, like, the opposite of making a decision that will make money. As much as people say wait and see (and those people are almost always wrong, by the way), sometimes (actually, a majority of the time) the most immediately obvious decision is the best one. In this case, that decision was putting Ambrose over here and now to cement him as a rising top guy and to cap off the hottest feud they've had in quite a while. Instead, they beat him and ended it with a whimper.
It's not comparable to the Michaels/Taker ending, because in that case, they were building hotter and more important feuds (Bret/Shawn and Taker/Kane) as they were setting up that HIAC match. In this case, Rollins/Ambrose WAS the hot feud to blow off, thus doing so should have been the focus of WWE for the sake of long-term planning. If anything, BEATING Ambrose was the short-sighted decision here.