Lemme Try to Figure Out This WWE Booking Logic... (spoilers)

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So you have Ken Kennedy, who not only had never been pinned in the WWE, but was heavily touted as never having been pinned in the WWE before.

Then he faces Matt Hardy last, last week. Matt Hardy, a man who has been reduced to glorified jobber. A man who hasn't had a push since he lost to Edge. A man whose credibility is about as low as Simon Dean's.

Hardy pins Kennedy clean, giving him his first pinfall loss.



O...kay... so maybe they're setting up a feud between the two? Nope. Hardy faces Gregory Helms as the surprise opponent and promptly loses to him at the GAB via a dirty pinfall, but a pinfall nonetheless. Gregory Helms, the man who is the longest CW champ in history... only because he hasn't defended his belt much aside from the first month after he won it. Helms, the man who jobbed cleanly to Rey Mysterio several weeks ago.

Rey Mysterio, the man who jobbed to Finlay, Great Khali, and Kane.



Back to Kennedy: he gets to face Batista. His streak is over, so time to give the returning main eventer a win to quickly rebuild his credibility, right? Nope. Lets give Batista a loss via DQ for going crazy.

Erm... okay... why couldn't he have gone crazy after the win? Why give Kennedy a win (yes by DQ, but a win nonetheless) when a loss won't really affect him anymore, now that he's jobbed to Matt Hardy?

To set up a number one's contender match on SD? You mean you couldn't have just made that match the #1 contender's match and then devoted more time to build up Batista vs (now) Booker?



In effect, what they've sort of done is put the pecking order at Khali/Finlay/(Kane) > Rey Mysterio > Greg Helms > Matt Hardy > Ken Kennedy > Batista.

Obviously, not literally, but any experienced wrestling booker knows that this is the line that is drawn in kayfabe. Obviously, Batista isn't a jobber or even shown as one, but having him lose by the DQ is sort of stupid. It breaks the "comeback rule," and just because the show was reshuffled at the last moment doesn't mean they should just throw things like that.

It may have made sense for Dave to go crazy on Henry like that, but not on Kennedy. I have a sneaking suspicion that they just used the finish they had for Batista/Henry and put it on Batista/Kennedy. Which shows an extraordinary amount of laziness IMO.




What's the point of this? Nothing, really. Just felt like ranting. Or maybe just subconsciously releasing my frustration over a terrible Tipsters round.

TERRAN REST IN PIECES/PEACE/PISCES/PEZ DISPENSERS!!!!! X(