After more than 15 minutes and what felt like a dozen different video packages, we were finally treated to a match, and it was actually a pretty decent-sounding one: Sheamus vs. Mark Henry. Trouble was, the two were thrown together in one of WWE’s signature contests: A Why The Balls Not Match.
Mark Henry has been doing a whole lot of nothing lately, aside from getting injured, hanging out on the periphery of a neat World Heavyweight Title storyline, getting reinjured, and unadvisedly becoming one of the first monster heels to take a serious stance against bullying, as seen on Elimination Chamber, when he sided with John Laurinaitis against Teddy Long. Meanwhile, Sheamus already has a spot as one of the participants in one of WWE’s rapidly expanding list of WrestleMania main events, so there wasn’t really much of anything for him to gain from the match. But since WWE is expecting Sheamus to pull in numbers for the biggest pay-per-view of the year, they couldn’t very well have him lose to Henry, and instead had him beat one of the most impressive, convincing heels of 2011 clean in an unadvertised short match with absolutely no build. Yes, Sheamus needs to start kicking some asses to legitimize himself before WrestleMania, but WWE should have been worrying about this months ago, not a month and a half out, when the only option is to feed him a once viable monster heel, burying said heel in the process.
