Since 2009 came around, it's been all about change. Barack Obama became our nation's president and was sworn into office. Everyone, everything around the country is switching their ball game.
AIG tried to give out hefty bonus checks to their employees using the stimulus money they received.
There's that guy who stole about $70 million from people who invested their money in him (Bernie Mader, I think). The MLB season has started and all the pitchers are throwing curve balls. They aren't the only ones as WWE is doing the same.
Where's the inception to this madness?
WWE wants to be predictable, but their currently unbreakable habit of throwing curve balls return them right back to square one. WWE is now " predictable" again. What? I am beginning to get the impression that I must expect the least expected, heck the unexpected in feuds and matches.
What the heck am I talking about?
Let's head back to Survivor Series 2008. Jeff Hardy missed the PPV in which Edge returned and captured the WWE title (Surprise!). The reason behind Hardy's absence was that he was attacked by a "mystery man."
Around this time, Christian was rumored to not be resigning with TNA and the the mouths started babbling. People were like the teacher in Charlie Brown.
"WA WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP!".
We are assuming that he had resigned with WWE and were keeping up with the updates on every and an wrestling site possible. Jeff Hardy ultimately got his first WWE title when he won the title at Armageddon 2008. Edge and Vickie weren't far behind as Edge already had his rematch lined up for the 2009 Royal Rumble.
From here on out, curveballs began flying as if there were no tomorrow.
The speculation was that Christian would appear at the Rumble and cost Jeff Hardy his belt. Many wanted him to get into some sort of program with Edge and the Hardys, just like the old days. The crowd was on fire when the no-DQ WWE title match took place.
The no-DQ stipulation just foreshadowed Christian's return. Instead, we were greeted by Matt Hardy, who was Jeff Hardy's attacker. He said he was solely responsible for the pyro incident, the road rage incident, and the Survivor Series attack? Though I was pleased that Christian didn't show up, I wished that he had at that moment.
Matt Hardy did all of that to his brother and Jeff never knew?
Many are still sold that Christian was the attacker. This isn't about how Christian is treated, this is about the nature of WWE's "predictability." They wanted to stick it to us and they did.
Everyone then speculated Christian showing up on Smackdown and jaws dropped again when he returned on ECW. Really? Is this best for the company? An over hyped guy returns in lackluster style on the C show...just to stick it to us? Again, this isn't a Christian case.
Many people were thinking Orton vs Cena and Triple H vs Edge as Mania, but that wasn't the plan. We were introduced to a lackluster feud between two men fighting over the love of one the world's most annoying women and has a superman as a third wheel.
Orton and Cena could have been a match to talk about and that went out the window when Orton started punting off the McMahons and started feuding with Triple H. What is going on? Was this the original plan? How did Batista's injury play a part in all of this?
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