Debates stink. Whether it's your high school team, part of
the presidential semifinal qualifiers or just an asshole under the misimpression
that playing devil's advocate makes him a bright guy, debates always have and
always will stink. So, it shouldn't be surprising that when WWE chose to open
its most popular show with a wacky debate featuring all six participants in the
WWE Title Elimination Chamber match, it became an absolute train wreck.
Bulletpointed for your pleasure:
- Saturday Night Live can barely pull off debate sketches, and that's those guys' actual fulltime job. The hubris of the WWE writer's room to think they could make this work.
- R-Truth is funny in an abstract, absurdist kind of way, but he's quickly completing his transition into full-on comedy act. The guy was a much more useful piece as a heel.
- Chris Jericho has apparently completely abandoned his fantastic "Jeritroll" gimmick, reverting back to big words questionably used and condescending insults to the audience.
- Even CM Punk grated in this segment, as his facetiously claiming that the segment wouldn't end in violence was just an irritating way of pointing out how formulaic the set-up was. Claiming a fart in an elevator doesn't make it smell any better.
Thankfully, Dolph Ziggler was there to say what we were all
thinking, asserting that the segment was "15 minutes of his life he'll never
get back."
