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Originally Posted by tucsonspeed6
Vince won't show his face and make these matches spontaneously two nights in a row.
Edit: And Cynick, Loose Cannon, and anyone else who is too cynical to believe that somebody other than HHH can hold the championship...
Raw has done a great job of giving the title value. How would it look if they suddenly started giving EVERYONE a one week hold on the title. This coming after Vince personally came out (when he's already declared the Vince McMahon character "dead") to change the match to give the title a little more value making the Battle Royal a #1 contender's match. Why would they suddenly throw that to the dogs and shit on not only the title, but this Edge/ Benoit feud that they've been building up lately? They're not stupid. They don't just decide that they don't like a feud or storyline that they've already devoted to the main event spotlight and turn it around. (A midcard feud...sure, but not a main event one.)
Obviously allowing the title to change hands on a Raw was for ratings, so having the title change BACK a week later isn't gonna help the ratings. Sure, next monday everyone will tune in to see who the real champ is. Then when HHH gets it back, where the hell do you think all the viewers they picked up will go? MNF, that's where. Your viewers can only feel jaded and alienated so many times before they give up on the product.
Mark my words: HHH WILL NOT GET THE TITLE BACK ANY TIME SOON. New year's revolution will be Benoit/ Edge for the championship. HHH will have to exact his revenge on Orton for costing him the title. Maybe someday later he'll get the title back, but it sure as hell won't be in the next month.
If I'm wrong, I'll rep anyone who calls me on it.
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See you are the exact reason why I think what they did on Monday was really stupid. You seem to think Hunter will NOT get the title back, and yet most of us know he WILL. Chances are when Hunter does get the title back, you will be upset, and will feel like what you seen on Monday was a huge waste of time, and nothing more than a slap in the face to the audience.
And just to clear thing up, the title did NOT change hands. Neither Benoit nor Edge were declared champions decisively, so what will happen is that there will likely be a rematch, and Hunter will retain. My guess is that Jericho's role in all of this will be to give himself a title shot at New Year's Revolution.
If they really wanted to do a title switch to either Edge or Benoit, they would have kept the Battle Royal gimmick for the title, Orotn would have helped eliminate HHH and then they could have done the draw finish with Edge and Benoit. At least that way, HHH would have been eliminated and been out of the picture. With the triple threat, all that happened was that we had a draw, and therefore HHH will get back into the rematch and get back the title.
And even if they do put the title on Edge or Benoit, it'll just go back on HHH by the Rumble at the very latest. So nothing will have been accomplished. Just HHH gets another title reign to add to his record books.
And RAW has NOT done a great job building up the value of the title. If the title had any value whatsoever, a PPV built on the premise that fans get to select who fights for that championship would not have done the lowest buyrate in WWE history. Also, their business wouldn't be int he shape its in if the title meant anything.