WWE has lost the main thread of their plot again. After last week, they had a hugely hot pseudo shoot angle with CM Punk, and this week, they ruined it. Cena, as we knew he would, got Punk reinstated, only for them to utterly overbook the match. Vince McMahon will fire Cena if he loses to Punk. Great, but Cena was just fired last year, and it didn’t last a week. We all know Vince isn’t firing the meal ticket and any reality, any special heat this had is now lost. They took a must-see PPV and, somehow, managed to make me luke warm on it. I didn’t need this to be all about Cena. No one did, really. This was Punk’s story with Cena defending WWE and his title. Now it’s Nexus again.
This mess follows WWE doing this with pretty much every hot angle they’ve had over the past few years. Remember when Nexus were new, interesting and hot? How long did it take to turn them into just another ineffective heel stable? How often did they just do the same thing until it got stale?
Michael Cole was in two extraordinarily hot angles. The first was with Daniel Bryan. Nexus killed that, and then when Bryan came back he failed to go after either Nexus or Cole. Opportunity lost. Cole likewise had amazing heat with Jerry Lawler, but overbooking and artificially lengthening that just left fans with the desire to see it end.
Finally, Wrestlemania was a hit because of Rock and Cena. Instead of paying off that, or any of the other hot storylines at the show, they just got pushed to next year. Sure, that might be a really hot angle, but it also destroyed a hot angle and likewise runs the risk of going to long.
For once, I’m without answers or even theories. What the hell is WWE doing? Why won’t they just let hot angles play out logically and build to a satisfying climax?
