Armchair Booking: Fixing Fatal 4 Way
I’ll start off by saying that overall, Fatal 4 Way was not a bad show overall. It had some great matches like Kofi Kingston vs. Drew McIntyre, Miz vs. R-Truth, and Chris Jericho vs. Evan Bourne and the Hart Dynasty vs the Usos. You notice, though how all of those are singles matches? On a show where the gimmick is 4 way matches?
Now, to be fair, the Divas 4-way match was alright considering who you have in there. No mat classic by any means but the girls get an A for effort. And both the World and WWE title matches were good, until the endings. The World title match ending wasn’t so bad, except I didn’t realize that Rey had pinned Swagger until they were showing replays as Mysterio winning his second World title was the secondary story to the Kane vs SES angle.
Speaking of Kane vs SES. If Kane knew it was Punk and the SES that incapped Undertaker? Why wait till the PPV? Why come out and chokeslam everyone every week if you know who your enemy is
But anyway, now Kane will be put in another meaningless feud with a smaller guy that no one will remember in 6 months and he’ll go back to being the worlds reddest jobber.
But that’s not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about, is the WWE title match.
Throughout the night, the announcers were saying that Cena has to be sweating, knowing he only has a 25% chance of retaining his title. Especially after The Divas and World title changed hands earlier. He was going to have to overcome the odds. Which, is really the same story Cena ALWAYS has. This is one of the few times that I think he should have overcome the odds…at first.
In this match, again the ending was overshadowed by the NXT invasion. The 100th time the WWE title had changed hands. Going to Sheamus, the guy who was considered the underdog in the match, with the earlier stats that Edge, Cena and Orton had main evented a dozen Wrestlemanias. And had some 9000 world title reigns between the three of them. I’m not a big fan of Sheamus, but I think he deserved better than to have all his heat taken by the rookies, if the idea was to give him the title.
Then the NXT kids run in and beat the hell out of Cena, as they’ve been doing.
Except for Wade Barrett who was doing some kind of a jig.
Here’s how I would have booked the ending of the match!
They push all night that Cena has to overcome the odds once again, this is something they did right here. Then John Cena wins. The first champion to retain his title in a 4-way of the night. He’s celebrating in the ring when his music is cut off by the NXT theme. The NXT guys come out on to the stage, calmly, not attacking anyone. Wade Barrett has a mic.
“Last Monday on Raw, General Manager Bret Hart refused our demands and tried to fire me. After an attempt to persuade him otherwise, we gave him until tonight to give us an answer. We haven’t heard from him. And if he won’t give us what we want, we’re gonna take it! Starting with you, Cena. Y’see, as the winner of NXT Season 1, I have a guaranteed title match on Pay per view, and as it turns out, we’re on Pay per view, and you have a title. I’m cashing that match in NOW!”
The NXT guys all walk down the ramp ahead of Barrett. They storm the ring and beat Cena down.
Barrett climbs in after the beat down. The rest of the NXT crew all climb out of the ring. Barrett grabs the referee and tells him to ring the bell. He does. Barrett give Cena his slam finishing move and pins him. The NXT crew jumps back into the ring, celebrating. Barrett grabs the mic again.
“Now, we own your championship. If you want it back, Hart. You come take it.”
Show fades out on Barrett holding the belt in the air.
This would help the NXT crew regain the momentum they lost when they were run out by the Raw crew on Monday. And now they also have something to hold over Hart to get what they demand. And that last segment could have easily eaten up some of the time they had left at the end, instead of closing the show with a half hour to go.
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