So Cena has to lose at Over the Limit now, right?
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Yes, after last night's half-hour comedy hour of Gleaming the Cube references, Ace Ventura impressions, and f***ing Puck puns, Johnny's gonna go over.
Unless we can believe that the WWE is ready to put an end to the whole "Johnny as dual GM/Overlord" angle so quickly. Which, personally, I can't. Plus, the ultra-scientifically accurate science meter – the Opposite Momentum Rule – scientifically dictates that Cena will scientifically lose. BEAKERS!!!
Something else to consider? What kind of match would Johnny vs. Cena one-on-one be? Yeah, the WWE is trying to sell this PPV as a sort of "watch Johnny get his ass handed to him" deal, but we all remember what a tedious trudge it was to watch Vince get completely thrashed by Bret back at 'Mania 26. It went from being cathartic to being suicide-inducing in, like, no time flat.
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So the key to Johnny's upcoming win probably lies in Big Show's emotional firing. For a while, some thought that Lesnar might help Johnny win, but he seems to have been shifted away from Cena and into the "Heyman/Triple" story, so it's gotta be Show, right? After all, they quickly made his apology storyline a big deal, with a video package and all. It was only a week old! And suddenly, a story that most of us figured would drag on a bit longer got a big huge, strangely emotional, segment on
RAW last night. Now, it's clear that
Big Show has way fewer days ahead of him, wrestling-wise, than he does behind him, but it was still a stretch to sell that an on-the-spot firing would affect him on such a Lee Strasberg level. Maybe it's because they knew it would be a hard sell, being such a quick turnaround on the story and all, that they figured that Show really, desperately had to nail it. I mean, that was his freakin' Emmy clip. And yes, I do believe that Big Show loves what he does, and loves all the fanimals out there, but the guy cried more than Edge did when Edge had to legitimately retire from the business forever.
I mean, the guy cried as if he'd just seen a school bus full of orphans go up in flames, while careening off a cliff. As if he'd just watched one of those Sarah McLachlan SPCA commercials where they threaten to execute kittens in front of you. The guy wept as if someone pulled his dad's coffin out of the ground with a tow chain and dragged it down across the lawn of a cemetery, with him on top holding on for dear life.
As ridiculous as Show's over-reaction was, I suppose it was necessary. And I have to commend him for being able to actually emote like that in a live segment. That was some intense scene-work. That was sense memory-meets-childhood regression. That was advanced "lie on your mat and become the color blue" workshop stuff. That was "you can't cry like this unless you've got past trauma to readily sift through" s***.
Come on, WWE.com. YOU HAD ONE JOB TO DO!
More from Big Show's cry-cry, plus Heyman and
Triple H, on page 2…
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