Initially I was kind of disappointed to
see Booker T square off against Cody yet again. There was no
escalation of match type, no one else was involved and the
Intercontinental Title wasn't even on the line. Frankly, it seemed
like a waste of time to show us this match again. But then the actual
quality of the contest won me over.
This was the type of match we should
have seen at the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view,
instead of a rushed affair confused and muddied by numerous pre-match
attacks by Rhodes. While personally I wouldn't have had Booker T go
over as clean as he did (where do we go from here, now that we know
for a fact that Booker T is the better wrestler?), but the match was
competitive enough that Rhodes was kept looking reasonably strong
even after getting pinned. Also, bonus points for incorporating the
apparently hereditary drop-down-uppercut/throat-jab maneuver.
