Tuesday 29 April 2008

WWE Backlash Review

It’s always a hard job to follow Wrestlemania as the next PPV which normally shows with Backlash. Normally Backlash is an event with a couple of decent matches but not much storyline movement as most of this would have happened at Mania and the WWE wouldn’t want to change direction that quickly. So Backlash is always an event I go in to with low expectations but hope to be surprised by.

Good Points

Matt Hardy wins the US title


Great to see Matt Hardy and MVP kicking off the show and Matt Hardy building on his comeback push with a title victory. It was an obvious result to guess but needed to happen as the US title had been on MVP for far too long. I hope this now frees up MVP for new feuds as he is my talent to watch for this year.

Nice ending to Edge vs. Undertaker match

Again it was obvious that Undertaker was going to hold on to his title but it was nice how they ended the match. The match ended with Undertaker failing to let go of his submission move for long after the bell forcing Edge to be taken out of the ring on a stretcher. Will be interesting to see how they use this in the storyline development.

Finally Triple H is back on top


In a move which should have happened at Mania HHH finally got his title in an unexpected win in the four way elimination main event. This leads me to believe that Orton has either caused problems backstage or has injury problems as it makes no sense to push him at Mania just to drop the belt a month later. I think it is a shame that such a historic moment wasn’t done at Mania where a lot more people would have seen and o have it mean so much more. I’m just glad though that it has happened and I am looking forward to see what happens with HHH as champion.

Bad Points

No Tag title matches


To have two sets of tag champions and have none defended on a PPV is ludicrous. Every PPV should have a tag title match or at least a well built tag match. What is the point of pushing Carlito and Marella or bringing back Cryme Time not to use them on the PPV. The idea of the weekly TV shows is to build for the PPV’s. I think they should unify the tag belts having two separate tag divisions one on Raw and one on Smackdown but with champions who fought challengers from both brands. It’s like on Smackdown what’s the point of having a women’s division with no champion or no chance for them to fight the Raw champion.

Batista losing to Michaels


I’m not a big Batista fan but to keep booking him low down the card or losing in big matches is starting to really effect his position on the roster. I think it would have made more sense for him to win and then trade to raw to face new champion Triple H and have a Raw guy transfer to Smackdown as a new opponent for the Undertaker.

No matches for Regal or CM Punk

After having Regal win the King of the Ring and CM Punk having his biggest push to date it made no sense for these two not to have matches. Again the weekly TV shows are suppose to be used to promote the PPV’s so what’s the time of giving these two major ring time and not have them on the PPV. It’s just a waste of time on the weekly shows.

Overall

Happy about the two title changes and there were a couple of decent matches in there but I think they used the wrong talent. Out of the pool they have they could have made a much better card which made more sense than the one that was on offer.

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