With my love for tag team wrestling out of the way, to say I’m glad I didn’t give in and buy Judgment Day would be an absolute understatement. Instead, I drove 20 miles out of my way to some haggard looking bowling alley, and was forced to watch it alongside people, one of whom was wearing a tuxedo t-shirt, who thinks DX is going to reunite with John Cena and Batista as new members in the upcoming weeks. You can only imagine the kind of night I was having, especially when while I was hearing this garbage, I was watching Cena and Big Show’s garbage on six screens. If these are the average wrestling fans, please slowly push your thumbs into my eyes. Now that I think of it, buying it, and staying at home might have been the more sensible thing to do.

By the way, no one will ever take your behind the scenes wrestling news stories seriously while wearing a tuxedo t-shirt. He might as well have told me Undertaker’s last match will be a buried alive match, in which Chris Benoit rises through the dirt and pulls him down to hell. I better not give him any ideas…

After reviewing this terrible show over and over in my head, I came to be not so upset with some of the decisions that were made, first of which being the end of the Batista/Orton finish. This leaves a perfect opening for a no disqualification, or special referee match at Extreme Rules next month. Yeah I can see it now. No DQ. Rhodes and Dibiasi help their boy. Depending on Triple H’s status, maybe he’ll make a run down the ramp. “Here comes the money” hits the speakers, and Shane does his balancing run down to the ring, and finally does the McMahon thing to do, and joins Legacy. Doesn’t that just SCREAM “Attitude Era,” or is it just me?

In my last column, I expressed how badly I wished the Edge/Hardy match at Judgment Day was booked as a ladder match. Well, with Extreme Rules next month, I wouldn’t mind these two in a rematch IF and ONLY IF it was decided in a ladder match. As far as CM Punk cashing in goes, it couldn’t have been any more of a tease to get a few extra thousand buys. After several attempts in the prior weeks, and the fact that everyone in the world knew he was in his hometown, it would have been too easy. Besides, he had cashed in after Edge’s match, who’s to say it would have been a landslide victory? Edge was on his game, and not nearly exhausted enough to sell in Punk’s favor, especially after his beating from Umaga earlier.

In my opinion, Punk should put his Money in the Bank on the line against Umaga at Extreme Rules. What PG friendly extreme rules match could these two go nuts in? Honestly, I don’t care. What would be the point of Punk cashing in, only to lose the strap within the same month? Umaga could believably have a decently long title run, if they did it the right way. I love his character, and don’t see why he gets so much heat from the crowd. But if he DID win the title via cashing in, he’d be missing one key ingredient…Armando Alejandro Estrada! Wondering where he’s at these days?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05PXDRCmeqk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpGRHpXYEg&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QecuzuPuLqA&feature=player_embedded

So there’s three matches from Judgment Day, with different stipulations. Throw one of those wicked cool WWE promos with classic TLC footage with Jeff and Edge, and this should be a top selling PPV.

It makes me sad, because I know none of anything I just said will EVER happen.

I’ve got a big imagination, though. An imagination that can make bank, stars and save the tag team division. And here I am chained to this desk…FML.