Glasgow, Scotland was the most recent cease for “WWE Uncooked” on the Street to WrestleMania. Like last week in Brussels, it opened with heel John Cena berating the crowd.
A number of storylines are heating up as WrestleMania 41 nears in April in Las Vegas. The highlight stays centered across the Undisputed WWE title, so let’s leap proper into it.
The anti-wrestler
The Glasgow crowd continued the enjoyable of Cena’s heel flip by hurling “John Cena sucks” chants his method throughout his entrance music, which has but to alter. Cena continues to be rocking his conventional gear and look — and this simply isn’t it, man. His factors final week made sense, however they don’t match the aesthetic in any respect. When Rhodes talked about of their first interplay how he needed to see the true Cena at WrestleMania, pointing at his shirt, it was sort of hilarious in hindsight.
That dude is definitely proper in entrance of you, Cody. He appears the very same.
Cena basically continued his promo from final week however as an alternative identified how he roasted that poor child within the crowd and everybody liked it. This was a repetition however with a capstone of Cena’s promise to damage wrestling — and that’s some fourth-wall-breaking brilliance, as a result of thus far he’s felt backward. Then, his grand plan was revealed: Win the title, make historical past, retire. Yeah, that’s about as stable of heel work as WWE may result in whereas concurrently spoiling what positively gained’t occur.
Except it is short-term, there’s no probability WWE goes that route — which, by the best way, would work properly. Discover a solution to entice Cena from a brilliant transient, ultra-evil retirement, holding the title hostage. It may even include a callback to when CM Punk “walked out” with the WWE Championship in the course of the peak of their rivalry again within the day.
Rhodes as soon as once more elevated the phase together with his arrival. He requested Cena to take the title from him earlier than Cena teased a brawl. That was by no means going to occur, however Cena has to answer Rhodes sooner or later.
They are tag-team wrestlers
After all, Jey Uso’s “shock” tag-team companion in opposition to A-City Down Beneath was his brother, Jimmy. This stalling extension of the Gunther “rivalry” has simply been filler of the very best diploma. It doesn’t really feel like one of many world titles is concerned with any of this, and actually, it isn’t — Gunther is barely concerned exterior of his random assaults, which occurred once more on Monday like clockwork. Nothing has been extra predictable on WWE programming these previous so many weeks, together with Jey Uso botches.
In contrast to final week’s brutal dive, nevertheless, Jey’s spear botch gave the impression to be a piece. Commentary performed it off as such and The Usos’ backstage phase highlighted it. That was admittedly job by WWE to show negatives into positives.
This complete match was counterproductive to the narrative of the Gunther vs. Uso feud, although — at the least in the case of boosting Uso as a singles risk. Gunther has claimed Uso is nothing greater than a tag-team wrestler, but reuniting him into one of many all-time greatest tag-teams proved that. The Usos are higher collectively than aside. All the pieces about that is simply poor, misplaced reserving.
It does make you need to see The Usos collectively once more, although, so there’s that.
(P)Rematch lunacy
The Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky and Bianca Belair phase on this “WWE Uncooked” was an absolute cluster. Adam Pearce’s lack of management as a basic supervisor by no means ceases to be entertaining however wildly foolish. As soon as all three wrestlers have been within the ring, it was a repeat of what they’d been doing: Belair and Ripley arguing till one pushes Sky’s face away to ignite a brawl. Pearce left they usually basically had a mini triple-threat match.
What made this so complicated was how Pearce continued to speak a few rematch answer for Ripley. That meant she’ll problem for Sky’s Girls’s World title on subsequent week’s “WWE Uncooked,” and the winner will face Belair at WrestleMania 41. He by no means even stated Sky’s title although, which made it sound like he obtained them confused and thought Belair was the champion. Even Sky seemed confused. It was poorly executed, and we will virtually assure some shenanigans from Belair within the rematch subsequent week to solidify the triple-threat match at WrestleMania. She would be the particular visitor referee, which additional solidifies Pearce’s terrible decision-making — or lack thereof.
Will probably be a travesty if Sky — or anybody at this level — will get omitted of a WrestleMania title match.
Blunder of the Evening
Bron Breakker’s Intercontinental title protection in opposition to Penta was completely superior — till the end. Dominick Mysterio desires to recruit for The Judgment Day, which led him and Carlito to make their method ringside. Mysterio value Penta the match by attacking Breakker. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Finn Bálor appeared afterward to proceed the assault and tease a potential activate his previous teammates, together with a Penta heel flip invitation that was declined.
A Bálor interference to value both man the match may’ve been justified, and ideally, I’d’ve had him value Breakker the title whereas turning in opposition to The Judgment Day. There could be so much to work with there. However how this was laid out? The identical previous factor. The Judgment Day will certainly lose their inevitable match in opposition to Penta and Breakker subsequent week. Whoop-dee-doo. Why cannot WWE simply give us extra clear finishes to epic matches on a weekly present?
MONDAY NIGHT MONEY
1. Lyra Valkyria efficiently defended her Girls’s Intercontinental Championship in opposition to Raquel Rodriguez by countering a Tejana Bomb right into a roll-up pin. It was considerably of the standard botched Judgment Day interference when Liv Morgan jumped onto the apron. Afterward, she and Rodriguez attacked Valkyria to immediate Bayley’s emergence for the save. It will probably result in a tag-team match, clearly. All the pieces about this was fairly good, and there was nothing excessive concerning the end.
2. CM Punk delivered a brief and not-so-sweet promo for his look in Glasgow and teased a triple-threat match contact signing with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins for Friday’s “SmackDown.” It is unbelievable how pure this man is on the microphone. From a callback to “working with kids” in AEW to a Paul Heyman dissension tease, it was as good as brief promos can get. Take notes, wrestlers.
RAW DEAL
1. Nobody cares about Pat McAfee’s kilt.
2. On the finish of The Usos’ backstage phase, Jimmy walked across the nook of the stairwell, and Gunther was actually simply chilling within the hallway, on their own. What a coincidence! Jimmy vs. Gunther, subsequent week on “WWE Uncooked.”
Uncrowned Gem of the Evening
The presumed saga of Chad Gable as “El Grand Americano” continued to unfold and be fairly superior. Dragon Lee and Rey Mysterio have been justifiably upset with what’s been occurring with the luchador. They assumed it was Gable and referred to as him out for a match, however stated he was sick and had a physician’s be aware to show it, which led to Americano vs. Lee. Boy, I will inform you, the match was glorious.
Lee was the primary to go for the reveal and pull at Americano’s masks in the course of the match, however finally, Americano gained after a top-rope spot noticed him toss Lee by the masks, eradicating it within the course of. Americano locked within the ankle lock and compelled the faucet. These two have been good collectively and a number of the bumps exterior the ring, have been significantly brutal.
Despite the fact that this complete factor with Gable is a comedy angle at its core, it has been enjoyable in all respects. I imply, the dude was introduced to be from the “Gulf of America.” Absurd.
Crown rating: 8/10.
