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 The conclusion of this week’s Raw reminds me of a sex dream. You know, the dream where you’re making out with your favorite starlet or porn star. The action keeps getting hotter and heavier until you finally are just about to pull the beef bus into Tuna Town. She’s lying there, moaning your name, begging for it. You’re ready to go, prepared to give her the best sexual experience in the history of the universe. Then suddenly, BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ and the alarm goes off. Yes, the latest installment of TLC was a great match on what was an average card. But it was the kind of match that can save even the worst show. You could have had Patterson vs. Lawler in a 90-minute Iron Man Match leading up to the event and it still could have gone down as the best show of all time. It was that damn good. And my hat is off to all those involved in the match. My only gripe is that Hurricane wasn’t given the chance to shine along with the others. But midway through, I forgot all about why he wasn’t there. The match was that damn good. But instead of bouncing around the house gushing over how awesome the match was, I was left dumbfounded at the end (sorry to rip off the Barbed One with the big adjective, but there is no other word in the English language that better describes how I felt afterward. And yes, the emphasis is not on “founded” for me either.). Why would you try to top what these guys had just done with a soap opera-like cliffhanger that killed the crowd? I swear you can almost hear the crowd in unison asking themselves “What the fuck?” We saw RVD go coast to coast. We saw Jericho do the Walls of Jericho on the top of the ladder. We saw sick bumps taken by Spike Dudley. We saw Jeff Hardy, Christian and Bubba Ray prove once again why they’re so important to these matches. And we saw Kane put on at least a decent showing. Most importantly, we saw that you don’t have to tune in to just Smackdown! or buy a PPV to get a great match. It was the kind of match that proved Raw can compete with Smackdown! But the post-match allegations that Kane is a murderer came from so far out of left field it ruined the entire show. In fact, I can’t think of one swerve in the long, glorious history of this industry that seemed as out of place as this murder allegation. If the WWE really wanted to do a murder angle, fine. I’ll give it a chance. Hell, I’ve been giving the WWE all sorts of chances for the last two years. Some have hit, many have failed. This may fail as miserably as the DDP-Undertaker feud. Or maybe it will shine. Time will tell. However, introducing it at the end of a historic match – and it was the first-ever TLC match on Raw – destroyed the 20 fabulous minutes of carnage and mayhem these 7 guys worked so hard to present. Let this serve as a lesson – there is a time and a place for everything. After a TLC match is not the time to introduce a swerve.  |