WWE One Night Stand Review

After a terrible Judgment day and a drop in viewing ratings WWE really need to pick their game up for One Night Stand. After two chaotic weeks of crazy booking on the TV shows I wasn’t expecting great things but was looking forward to seeing the return of matches like TLC.

Good Points

Big Push for Edge

Was great to see him in the main event putting on a good match with Undertaker which featured some great bumps. Edge won the match thus forcing The Undertaker to leave the WWE which is a big thing to have on his resume. It also frees him up for a new challenger to work with on Smackdown in the coming weeks.

Jeff Hardy starting where he left off.

Before his lay off Jeff was enjoying one of his biggest pushes to date and it looks like the WWE creative team want to start where they left off with Hardy opening the show in a good match with Umaga. The match featured the spot of the night as Hardy did his Swanton Bomb out in the parking lot from a huge scaffold structure to get the win.

Nice continuation of the storyline for Batista

Many were saying that Batista was about to take some time off from WWE but with his big win against HBK it looks likely he will be the first challenger for Edge. Was great to see Jericho getting involved again as that also provides another option for Batista or HBK to work with.

Bad Points

Not Extreme enough

For a show that was being billed as the most extreme of the year it was very mild to say the least. Except for Hardy’s Swanton and a few stand out bumps in TLC the action was very tame. I wasn’t expecting anything like the old ECW style but a bit more hard hitting would have been nice.

Orton Injured

It is being reported that Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his match with HHH which could put him on the shelf for a little while. This means we need a new contender for HHH whilst we wait for the draft. This means we will probably see either JBL or Cnea pushed to fill the gap.

Cena vs. JBL just doesn’t work

To have a good match Cena needs to work with a technical or highflying wrestler. JBL’s smash mouth style doesn’t work with Cena’s fan orientated style. Hopefully this is the last Cena/JBL match we have to see for some time.

Overall

Besides from the first and the last match it was all pretty much filler. With only two weeks to build for the show none of the storylines were intense enough or as strong as they should have been. We have got two more pay per views to go until Summerslam now so it will be interesting to see what storylines the WWE will go with to push for Summerslam.