WWE Top 5 Worst of the Week: Miz, Orton and More!
Night of Champions has come and gone.
The question is: Did you order the show or save that money to buy 12 Subway sandwiches instead?
Overall, it was an interesting week. Cena will be out of the ring for awhile, Heath Slater looks to have debuted a new stable and "The Great One" Jared from Subway finally returned to WWE.
Say what you will, but unlike The Rock, Jared actually put someone over.
He made Ryback look like a million bucks (or approximately 200,000 footlong Subway sandwiches). Ryback gained a much-needed victory over the pitchman. Maybe a match at Hell in the Cell between the two could settle it once and for all.
SmackDown didn't make a lot of sense. Somehow Edge was able to book a match, and later in the show, Kane and Bryan booked their match. Apparently everyone is a GM now?
Oh, and just for fun, the babyfaces won their matches 11-5 this week, which marks at least the third week in a row that they've won by double. I had to work that in there somewhere.
Let's get to it. Here are WWE's top five worst moments of the week from September 16-22.
No. 5: Orton vs. Tensai
1 of 5Fans demanded it, and WWE listened.
On Friday night SmackDown, Randy Orton and Tensai faced off in an epic clash of the titans. Somehow, Orton was able to put away Tensai after a brutal test of will and determination.
The match was so incredible that WWE couldn't wait until Hell in the Cell for a rematch. They gave in to the fans' wishes and gave us the exact same match on Raw.
It was like Christmas on top of WrestleMania on top of Halo 4 being released all at the same time.
Friday night SmackDown aired the same match with the same outcome, and it was just as boring then. No one takes Tensai seriously anymore. WWE gave up on him months ago and fans have caught on.
The matches were fine, but there was no explanation given why there was a rematch. There was no backstage segment with Tensai vowing to get revenge. There wasn't a post-match attack on SmackDown justifying another round.
It was just tossed out there along with the other jobber matches.
WWE often treats their audience with little respect for their intelligence. Now they were testing them on their memory.
Why focus on younger talent or building the tag and divas division during that extra hour on Raw when we can watch Orton vs. Tensai again?
This was like eating a Subway sandwich that was left in the back of a car for three days.
No. 4: Too Much Team Friendship
2 of 5When WWE stumbles onto a good thing, they tend to overdo it and run it into the ground.
Just ask A.J.
Don't get me wrong, Daniel Bryan and Kane are still entertaining. It was also cool to see the tag champions in the SmackDown main event. But WWE is dangerously overexposing the two.
WWE didn't bother to tease Bryan and Kane as a tag team. They didn't bother to tease them winning the tag titles. They just went full steam ahead and did it.
It's like they started reading a book, got bored with it and decided to skip to halfway into the story.
On SmackDown, Bryan and Kane essentially ran the show. Together they wrestled in three matches, they opened the show in a lengthy segment and they had a backstage skit as well.
Oh, and they destroyed the entire tag-team division by themselves.
At this point, they'll probably get their own spin-off sitcom.
It's like WWE was thinking if eating one Subway sandwich is good, then eating five in one sitting would be even better.
No. 3: Miz TV
3 of 5The Miz show has only been on for one week, but it’s time to cancel it.
WWE doesn’t seem to understand that you can’t job out a wrestler every single week (except on pay-per-views), and then expect people to care about what he says.
Will JTG and Curt Hawkins get their own show next?
Miz had the exact same feel as every other WWE interview show in recent memory. The whole thing felt forced. Miz’s character has been flat since he returned, and fans sure weren’t clamoring for more of him.
Nothing he said was very interesting, it was more eye-rolling than anything. Maybe Miz was trying to get heat by saying he’s more controversial than Piper, but it didn’t even make sense.
The fans started a boring chant, and it’s hard to blame them.
Also, Booker T. did kind of prove Miz's point that he was against him. He must have talked to Ryback beforehand and had him waiting in the wings to fight Miz whenever he called him in.
The best part of the segment, though, was when a fan grabbed a live mic and chanted "Goldberg" at Ryback. He deserves a Best of the Week award!
Get that man a Subway sandwich fast!
No. 2: Santino Wins, Aksana Splits
4 of 5Why will this feud just not end?
Antonio Cesaro beat Santino in multiple non-title matches, then he beat him for the belt. He then beat him in a rematch.
They don't need to go back to this again and again.
The crowd just isn't reacting to the Cobra like WWE thinks they are. If fans exploded whenever Santino pulled out the sock from his singlet that would be one thing, but they aren't, and it's a turn-off to most adult fans.
This whole match just reeked of laziness and boredom.
On Monday, it appeared that Cesaro and Brodus were going to feud, on Friday it seemed Brodus was going to feud with Heath Slater's group. Cesaro then suddenly goes back to Santino.
To top it off, with no storyline buildup whatsoever, Cesaro and Aksana broke up.
She tripped trying to grab the Cobra, Cesaro stood there like an idiot for about 30 seconds with his back turned. Santino then predictably rolled him up, and that was it. The end of their relationship.
Time for a personal plea to WWE creative.
For the love of God, WWE, please don't put Santino and Aksana together. Please, for me?
I'll go buy a Brawling Buddy, I'll watch Saturday Morning Slam, I'll even go get a Subway sandwich, just don't try to kill my love of wrestling by continuing this any longer!
Thank you, that is all.
No. 1: Subway Sandwiches Proudly Presents WWE Raw
5 of 5Kofi Kingston's expression in this photo perfectly sums up this segment.
Apparently, WWE stars are so poor they can't afford Subway sandwiches. That's the only plausible explanation of why they were so thrilled to see a table full of subs.
WWE has been advertising Sonic and Domino's, to name a few, during their shows lately, but this went a bit too far.
Everybody got free subs here. It was a party! Zack Ryder, R-Truth, Kofi Kingston, Little Jimmy and even Ryback were fed.
Yet somehow, WWE screwed up the easiest joke they had. You almost have to wonder if WWE created the "feed me more" catchphrase just to eventually promote Subway.
How it should have gone was Jared gives Ryback a sandwich, then Ryback says "feed me more!" As in the case that he wants another one.
He shouldn't have started out with the "feed me more" phrase, because that indicates that Jared had already fed Ryback, which wasn't the case.
I'm over-thinking that, but in a terrible skit like this, somebody has to.
With all this advertising, maybe next week there will be a Nerf gun match, or how about Flo the Progressive girl helps The Big Show shop for car insurance?
This hurts my brain. I'd better go get a Subway sandwich to ease the pain.
Well, that's all for this week. Agree? Disagree? Did anything worse happen? Sound off below, and thanks for reading.






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