I’m always going to hate a promo or when multiple competitors come out one after the other to interrupt each other during a segment. We got it tonight over Sami Zayn’s Undisputed WWE Championship and the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match, and it seemed too early to do so, especially with the talent on “WWE Raw,” and before the last challenger even qualified.
It doesn’t help that I’m just not a fan of Zayn’s current persona, despite how happy I am that he got the championship and he started the segment before being interrupted by Jevon Evans. It was nice to see “Young OG” go toe-to-toe with the big champ, but everything the pair said was to be expected. He was then interrupted by Penta and the crowd went crazy for the luchador, shadowing the young star a bit.
Penta’s material was also pretty clichéd for a pre-MITB promo, and he basically gave Evans the “if you want that contract, you gotta go through me.” Williams then came out with his long, aura-farming entrance, and that’s when I thought we might even get a commercial break this whole time. He got to the ring and told Penta and Evans that he respects them but they belong on Raw and Evans’ little nod of “yeah he’s right” made me laugh.
He insulted Zayn, called him a gingerbread man, and used the same insults from their previous feud, and it just went on forever without anything new being said. Just when you thought it was over, Finn Balor ran into Zayn on the stage and they exchanged words before Gunther took them both out. And honestly, it took me until now writing this to realize that Balor and Gunther aren’t even in the Money in the Bank ladder match. They lost their qualifier, but they’re still in the main picture and probably should have had their own backstage segment with Zayn or something to break this all up.
We got the promo tonight, and we’re sure to get one, either men’s or women’s, or both, on Monday’s episode of Raw, and then again next week on the house episode of SmackDown. Tonight took up so much time that I really can’t wait for next week, and there’s no way WWE is going to make it any more interesting. The men can hit each other with the ladders in the ring and there could be a brawl and I guess I have to sit through that to get to the ladder match at the premium live event that I’m actually looking forward to.
Posted by Daisy Ruth
