At Cyber Sunday, our World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Jericho, was to defend his championship against, as of Monday, our former World Heavyweight Champion—Batista.
Jericho lost his title after run-ins from multiple referees and JBL. Batista went on to hold the title for 15 days, just over two weeks.
Why would the WWE do this? There is only one reason that comes to mind. The WWE is doing everything in its power to keep "Big Dave" Happy. Rumors have been running ramped that Batista is looking to retire soon. I'm sure McMahon is trying to keep Dave happy so he won’t be so keen on leaving.
All Batista's reign did was slow down the steam engine that has been Chris Jericho, the muscle behind RAW for the past several months. Now I have to believe they will have Jericho drop the title to John Cena.
Batista's reign was a cheap ploy to keep him happy. Now if the WWE did that to every unhappy performer backstage then we would have a new champion every week. Just because Batista states he wants to retire doesn't mean you give him a win over your brightest star (John Cena) only to give him a sorry two-week title reign.
Batista is twisting a million dollar company's arm to beg him to stay and it seems to be working, but for how long?
The only thing I'm happy about here is that Jericho is the Champion again. The title should have never been taken away from him. I enjoyed the surprise of Jericho winning the title back on RAW and everything.
Well, Jericho just lost about six months' worth of momentum, and all to make "The Animal" happy. Jericho's the top of the food chain now and it should have stayed that way as far as I’m concerned.
Tell me what you think of Batista's recent title reign and the rumors of his departure/retirement.
Thanks for reading, Ross.
11 comments Last one added 8 months ago — Leave a Comment
Shane H. 8 months ago
woo hoo, Batista isn't champ anymore. Thank gawd. He's not ready to be champ again. I listed reasons why in my previous piece "The Big Baby That is Batista". I agree Jericho has been the biggest thing on RAW and the title change at CS didn't make sense. Hopefully Jericho doesn't lose it to Cena at Survivor Series. But WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO, no more champion Animal.
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Ross 8 months ago
I ahve a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that John Cena might be the next Wolrd Heaveyweight HCampion. That would explain why they took the title off of Batista so they could save the rematch for Wrestlemania.
John Cena vs. Batista for the World Title.
Ahh WWE you are so predictable. :)
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Corey Colgan 8 months ago
Batista is so boring, I don't see how anyone could like him. Jericho obviously deserves the title and I don't need to mention why as it's already been stated he's the best thing going for RAW right now. The 800th episode was definitely the best in a long time, probably since the 15th anniversary special, and I took a lot from the episode as to foreshadowing some of the storylines to come in the future.
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Ross 8 months ago
The only downside is, well I was hopeing DX would put over Miz and Morrison and then they be able to start like a new DX stable instead of getting buryed by the old veterans. We all knew how that turned out. I will be writing about that soon. Other than that yes it was a good show. Exept Mae Young. =/
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Corey Colgan 8 months ago
hahahah well I never expect anything out of womens wrestling, call me sexist if you want. As for the miz and morrison comment, I wasn't expecting DX to put them over. If there's any hope for a new stable it's in simply priceless, a team I thought also had a significant point in their storyline last night when Ted eliminated Manu and Cody. Later in the night when the three did a run in on Orton's match Ted got beat down too, so I definitely see this as them turning the storyline to Teds singles run and possibly Orton taking his place in running that stable.
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jason savage 8 months ago
jericho will drop the title to cena in boston at survivor series, unfortunately.
the only twist i can see is if he retains the belt in some way that develops into a jericho vs cena feud which would be a breath of fresh air!
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Ryan 8 months ago
While this would be the preferred way, unfortunately, like you said, it seems as if Jericho will be dropping the belt to Cena at Survivor Series.
What would be awesome is for Cena to come back, fail to win the belt, kicking off a slow heel turn that culminates either right before Wrestlemania or AT Wrestlemania.
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Jordan Albertsen 8 months ago
They took the strap off of Batista to save Cena vs Batista for the Main Event at Wrestlemania for the World Heavyweight Championship. Plain and simple.
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Michael Griffin 8 months ago
Cena wins at SS, loses to Batista at Mania.
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Jabot Singleterry 8 months ago
The other three reigns he had were legit, but this one wasn't and you could tell.Batista didn't earn his fourth title and i'm really disappointed in him for that.
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Ross 8 months ago
I'm disappointed in the WWE for giving it to him.
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