WWE Hell in a Cell 2020 (Oct. 25, 2020) -- Results & Afterthoughts

Hell in a Cell (2020) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. It took place on October 25, 2020 (originally November 1) at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. It was the twelfth event under the Hell in a Cell chronology and featured WWE's virtual fan viewing experience called ThunderDome.

Seven matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Randy Orton defeated Drew McIntyre in a Hell in a Cell match to win the WWE Championship for a tenth time. Two other Hell in a Cell matches were also contested on the card: in the opening bout, Roman Reigns defeated Jey Uso to retain the Universal Championship, which was also the first time an "I Quit" match was contested inside the structure, while Sasha Banks defeated Bayley to win the SmackDown Women's Championship, ending Bayley's title reign at 380 days; this also made Banks WWE's fourth Women's Triple Crown Champion and third Women's Grand Slam Champion.

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Singles Match for the WWE 24/7 Championship

R-Truth (c) defeated Drew Gulak

Hell in a Cell "I Quit" match for the WWE Universal Championship

Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) def. Jey Uso

Since Jey quit, he and his brother Jimmy Uso have to take orders and acknowledge Reigns as The Tribal Chief or The Usos and their immediate families will be exiled from the Anoa'i family.

As a WRESTLING match, I'm sure there's people out there who flat out hated this match as there wasn't much of that here. In reality, this match was a master class in STORYTELLING. That was entirely the point here. They were knocking the point home with their performance(s) as these characters - from Jey Uso's determination and personal resolve not to give up to Roman Reign's firm standing under his new idealogy as the Tribal Chief of the Anoa'i family. The trash talking and taunting throughout this match was pure excellence, but I could have done without the referee asking who is going to give up after every single move. I could have done without any commentary calling this match as well because Michael Cole does absolutely NOTHING to add to these matches. If this was a normal pinfall/submission match, Jey Uso would have been pushing up daisies within the first few minutes of this match after Roman hit the first of many Spears. Instead, he kept toughing it out and proving to the WWE Universe that he can hang with the Tribal Chief. The Usos are decorated multiple time WWE Tag Team Champions, but people tend to forget that they are two excellent individual workers in the ring and can hold a candle to any modern tag team in the world, whether it be The Revival/FTR, The North (Ethan "All Ego" Page & Josh Alexander), The Young Bucks, or even their cousins in New Japan Pro Wrestling, The Guerillas of Destiny. If Jey's going to continue doing singles matches then he needs to add something new to his arsenal that is a little more heavy-hitting. The vast majority of his offense is stuff that I can't buy any main eventer on WWE's roster NOT kicking out of. That being said, he put in enough of a convincing effort to show that he was going down swinging.

I wanted to hand Roman Reigns AND Jimmy Uso an Oscar for their performances towards the end. They really had me caught up in the story here and truly painted the picture plain as day for solidifying Roman's heel turn. Where the fuck was THIS Roman Reigns when Vince was shoving Reigns down our throats a few years ago? If he came out there every week with this heel demeanor instead of fighting the backlash to his babyface run, then people would have been eating out of his hands by the time it was all said and done. I loved the finish too, where Reigns held the already injured Jimmy Uso into the Body Scissors until Jey Uso was forced to say he quit to spare his own twin brother's health and physical well-being.  

Where the hell did they dig up the Wild Samoans from? Still made for a nice image post match for them to formally crown him the Tribal Chief of the Anoa'i family. 

Singles Match

Elias def. Jeff Hardy by disqualification

As SOON as I heard the strum of Elias' guitar I went to the bathroom because I didn't give a flying fuck about this match in any shape nor form. Explain to me why the hell is Elias feuding with Jeff Hardy when Sheamus is the one who ran him over in that feud that put Elias on the shelf? This is just so fucking goddamn stupid. 

Singles Match for the Money in the Bank contract

The Miz (with John Morrison) def. Otis (contract holder) (with Tucker)

I've liked Otis since his Heavy Machinery days back on NXT and even up to the Mandy Rose storyline that climaxed at WrestleMania, but even I think this whole debacle about the Money in the Bank briefcase was fucking stupid. This wasn't a bad match, it's just hard to care about this stupid storyline. 

Like I was telling a friend when I was watching the match live, I thought that they telegraphed Tucker's turn a little TOO obvious because the cameras gave it away when they kept focusing on the briefcase on the floor after Morrison dropped it. After that, you could notice that Tucker kept eyeing it on the floor and making sure he was in position for the moments that followed. So when he clobbered Otis with the briefcase, I wasn't surprised as I figured that's how they were going to explain why the hell did they split up Heavy Machinery during the WWE Draft earlier this month. 

What I did like though, was the post-match interview with Tucker backstage. The guy delivered a decent promo and Otis busted up the interview after Miz & Morrison joined like he was the Incredible Hulk on PCP. THAT was the reaction I was hoping he was going to after after Dolph Ziggler ruined his date with Mandy Rose instead of moping around like a fucking loser for weeks on end. If this means we get HULK SMASH Otis instead of the childish goof that he's settled into then I'm all for it. 

Hell in a Cell match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship

Sasha Banks def. Bayley (c) by submission

For as long as WWE has been milking this split and dragging this out, I thought that they should have headlined the show, especially with Roman and Jey getting their business out of the way first and foremost. 

Let me get this out of the way first: This match was easily the best thing on the entire show, BUT I don't think that it was anywhere as good as Sasha and Bayley's two iconic TakeOver matches, so let's just not even go there. 

With that out of the way, they lost me on the narrative here the moment Sasha kicked Bayley's beloved steel chair out of the ring and after less than 3-5 minutes they were pulling out more chairs from underneath the ring. Would it have killed them NOT to have more chairs underneath the ring to sell the narrative? Bayley using the chair to break Sasha's neck was the tale of the tape and played into the finish in a clever manner that I think that one decision here diminished the story that they were trying to tell with this match. 

My other problem with this match was all of the unnecessary bumps around the corners of the steel steps in the corner at ringside. You only have a VERY narrow margin for error and these women were toying around in that area for several minutes. You could have taken all of those spots out and this match would have STILL been a classic. It was completely unnecessary in my eyes. I'm sure Sasha Banks saw the opening match and was convinced that they weren't going to top that on a narrative level, so she was going to bump her ass off instead. I'm not going to leave Bayley out of that either as I'm sure she went along with all of this stuff too and was just as onboard with it as Sasha was when they were pitching ideas for this. One of the stupidest bumps of the entire match had to be that back bump where the base of Sasha's skull hit the steel chair wedged into the corner. Sasha oversold the momentum from that move just to hit it as hard as she could too. I could do nothing but shake my head at that one. If she's still wrestling in another 3-5 years, I'll be surprised. 

I couldn't help but laugh where this match stopped to a crawl as Bayley attempted to duct tape some kendo sticks together at ringside to put them together in some sort of makeshift bridge. She gave up halfway into this arts and crafts project after muttering to the official, "My hands are too sweaty, can you do it for me?" I was surprised that they couldn't edit that out, especially when I could hear that as plain as day over the fake crowd noise. That created an awkward as hell moment in the middle of this match where not even the commentary team could provide a sensible cover-up for that. 

I think this was the point in the show where I literally asked out loud, "What is up with this company and so many kendo sticks all of a sudden over the past year?" Between the assault to Dominik in the Mysterio family drama and Seth Rollins and so many "extreme rules" matches on their programming as of late, I don't understand what is with their fascination with that as a weapon. I wasn't even too crazy about it during the height of the ECW days and I definitely haven't been made into a fan of it in recent years. It just seems like WWE are using that as PG era substitute for chair shots from the Attitude Era, given what we know in hindsight about concussions today from blows to the head. 

20+ minutes later and things come down to a boil where Bayley kicks out of Belly to Bayley on the ladder followed by Sasha kicking out of normal Belly to Bayley served back to her in rebuttal. The finish came down to Sasha looking in the Banks Statement with the chair wrapped around Bayley's head while Sasha's stomping over the base of the chair to add more pressure - a VERY clever call back to their TakeOver match, where Sasha was stomping on Bayley's broken hand to force her to submit. That was some good shit there, pal, but it would have spoken volumes if they hadn't used any other chairs in this match up to that point. 

In the end, I was glad to see them FINALLY take that belt off of Bayley even though there's some people who were butthurt that they went with that decision. It was obvious that they weren't going to separate them in the Draft, so there wasn't any way that they were going to delay this to WrestleMania next year. Sasha was the only person that SHOULD have taken that title off of Bayley after the story that they have been telling for what feels like the last FIVE years when it's probably been two years at the most on the main roster. 

Now the only question that's left is whether or not can Sasha Banks keep it past the first title defense? Her title reigns have become infamous at this point for how comically short they have been on the main roster. 

Singles Match for the WWE United States Championship

Bobby Lashley (c) def. Slapjack by submission

This match was made during the show, where Retribution chose a member of the Hurt Business to face against a member of their factor that the Hurt Business selects. The former Shane Thorne tried as he might, but he was ultimately no match for "The Almighty" Bobby Lashley. The most hilarious thing about this match or rather the post-match attack was that Lashley fought off ALL of the members of Retribution on his own before the rest of the Hurt Business could even come out there. Boy, WWE doesn't give a flying fuck about this Retribution thing anymore, huh?

They have treated this idea poorly from the start and I can't say that I'm surprised to see them getting "jobbed out" when they never were really over to begin with. The best course of action would be to book the Hurt Business vs. Retribution at Survivor Series, with the losing faction being forced to disband. Scrap this whole Retribution thing, but maybe keep Dio Madden and Dijak aligned with Mustafa Ali. I think they could work something with those two. Send the others back down to NXT. 

Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship

Randy Orton def. Drew McIntyre (c)

Going into this main event, Orton and Drew already had a lot going against them with the two HIAC matches that proceeded this. What else could they do that could stand out that hasn't already be done in the previous two matches. 

They started things off early with Orton getting the jump on Drew during his entrance, disguised as one of the cameramen. I think wrestling Twitter lost their minds for a bit to see Orton wrestling in PANTS for the first few minutes of this match because of that. It wasn't long though because he discarded the pants and was down to the normal attire that we're used to seeing Orton wrestle in. 

As for this match as a whole, I didn't think it was bad, but it's just really THERE for the latter part of this show. Nothing overly exciting happened outside of the cock-tease that they were going to do something off the top of the cell, only to climb back down shortly afterwards. My suspension of disbelief was killed the moment that I saw the foot holes and stands jutting out from the side of the cell where Orton and Drew were going to brawl upon before one of them took that fall through the commentary table below. That honor ended up going to Drew McIntyre as he was a fan of Shawn Michaels' infamous HIAC bump through the commentary table and sought out to do the same tonight. Drew managed to be bleeding from the mouth as a result, but I could just go "Meh..." at this as after everything we've seen Sasha and Bayley throw at each other earlier tonight, these two guys couldn't even get a little color to play up the "brutality" that these cage matches are known for. 

That being said, I loved the finishing sequence of this match. When Orton clapped after evading the Claymore, I stood up and applauded that RKO counter. That was a thing of beauty. If Drew had kicked out of that, I would've been pissed. Orton won his 14th World title reign and I don't see any harm done to Drew McIntyre. You could easily start the slow build to have Drew chase towards the title again for WrestleMania season when (hopefully) events around the world are able to bring fans back in a safe capacity. Drew had a decent title reign for the last few months. The deciding factor is going to be whether he rises back up into challenging for said title or settles back into being forever mid-carder like Kofi Kingston following losing his World title last year. The guy eliminated Brock Lesnar in the Royal Rumble match AND beat him clean at WrestleMania. I doubt WWE are going to put that much of an investment into him to waste. 

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Afterthoughts:

The match that SHOULD have headlined tonight's show. On a side note, this was a pretty sweet poster for promoting the match.

I didn't notice this until several podcasters and other fans mentioned this on social media, but we are EXACTLY at the same place in WWE's booking a decade ago when Randy Orton had the WWE Championship going into Survivor Series, where The Miz had the Money in the Bank briefcase. It would be pure insanity to put the belt on Miz at this point after taking it off of Drew McIntyre, BUT it would be a pretty fun tease to have people guessing. Just have Miz cash it in that night and lose. It doesn't have to be anything more than that. 

As of this posting (11/4/20), it seems that they are setting Orton to defend against the threats of both Drew McIntyre and "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt after he faces Roman Reigns for brand supremacy/bragging rights at Survivor Series. I wouldn't have a problem with that as long it doesn't have to have anything to do with that god-awful House of Horrors Match that Bray and Orton had at WrestleMania a few years ago. 

On the other end of the spectrum, Jey Uso has fallen in line over SmackDown and has turned heel to serve under the Tribal Chief while Sasha Banks is set to defend against Bayley for the SmackDown! Women's Championship, with the winner facing RAW Women's Champion Asuka at Survivor Series. Bayley already posed the same question that I did too, questioning the fact that Sasha has the ability to win titles, but does she have the ability to hang onto them. Nice little jab there. I should clarify that I don't flat out hate Bayley's heel turn, but it ultimately feels hit or miss to me. That promo from the HIAC fallout episode of SmackDown was great stuff from her. I still felt like Sasha Banks is at her best being heel, but whatever, WWE wants to push her as a babyface while advertising her upcoming appearance in season two of The Mandalorian on Disney+, so I'll put up with it. The match for WrestleMania on the SmackDown! women's end of things needs to be a heel Sasha Banks defending against Bianca Belair though. Nothing else in that division currently would interest me more since they blew their loads on the Sasha/Bayley match. 

Without a shadow of a doubt, Sasha Banks and Bayley stole the show with the match of the night in terms of in-ring action, but I don't think that people should discredit Reigns vs. Jey Uso either, despite the fact that it was more of a narrative than an actual competitive match. The stuff that WWE is currently doing with Roman Reigns' heel turn is the best thing going in this company right now across all three brands. There's no arguing that fact. 

WWE Money In The Bank 2020 (May 10, 2020) -- Afterthoughts on a VERY Unorthodox Show

Money in the Bank was a professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The majority of the event took place live on May 10, 2020 from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, while the show's eponymous ladder matches were pre-recorded on April 15, 2020 at WWE's Titan Towers global headquarters building in Stamford, Connecticut. It was the eleventh event under the Money in the Bank chronology.

The event was originally scheduled to take place at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland, but the venue cancelled all shows that were to be held in May due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, WWE took advantage of the situation and moved the two titular ladder matches to their global headquarters building in Stamford with a new "Corporate Ladder" gimmick where the match's titular briefcases were suspended above a ring on the building's roof. The wrestlers began on the ground floor and fought their way to the roof.

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Quick Results:

• Kick-Off: Singles Match - Jeff Hardy def. Cesaro
  
  
• Fatal 4-Way Tag team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship - The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) (c) def. The Forgotten Sons (Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake) (with Jaxson Ryker), The Miz and John Morrison, and Lucha House Party (Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado)
  
  
• Singles Match - Bobby Lashley def. R-Truth
  
  
• Singles Match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship - Bayley (c) (with Sasha Banks) def. Tamina
  
  
• Singles Match for the WWE Universal Championship - Braun Strowman (c) def. Bray Wyatt
  
  
• Singles Match for the WWE Championship - Drew McIntyre (c) def. Seth Rollins
  
  
• *** Money in the Bank ladder match for a Women's Championship Match contract the WWE Raw Women's Championship - Asuka def. Carmella, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Nia Jax, and Shayna Baszler
  
  
• Money in the Bank ladder match for a World Championship match contract - Otis def. AJ Styles, Aleister Black, Daniel Bryan, King Corbin, and Rey Mysterio

MITB Winners: Asuka for the women and Otis (LOL) for the men.

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Afterthoughts:

Let's start things off by addressing the elephant in the room first and foremost. It was revealed on Monday Night RAW (5/11/20) at the start of the broadcast that the MITB match for the Women's Championship contract wasn't for a title opportunity, but for the RAW Women's Championship itself since Becky Lynch is taking a leave of absence after revealing that she's pregnant. I won't lie - I saw this news being reported on a few websites during the PPV actually and didn't pay it any mind at all. I chucked it up as random bullshit started up by one of those dirtsheets that spread false information. I was thinking that if that news was legit, one of the legit sources of wrestling news would have reported it sooner. Instead, we got the truth straight from the cow's mouth (as how the saying goes) right here on RAW.

While I'm happy to hear that Becky Lynch is undertaking the journey of motherhood and being a parent with Seth Rollins, I can't say that this was the way that I saw her Women's Championship run coming to an end. If she knew that she was pregnant back in April (as she mentions in an interview right after this news got out) then that was even more reason to drop the title to Shayna Baszler at WrestleMania a month ago. This time last year, Becky Lynch's stock was on an all-time high. No one else in that company was on her level, outside of maybe Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey before she left the company shortly after WrestleMania last year.

That's when Becky's stock went on the decline too, not saying that those lackluster feuds with Lacey Evans (who shouldn't have been rushed up from NXT and shoehorned into a program with the top woman in the company) then that joint pairing with her real life boyfriend, now fiancee, Seth Rollins against Lacey Evans and that charisma-vacuum Baron Corbin, did her any favors either. After that, Becky has been in a clusterfuck array of questionable feuds (except for that callback to Asuka's one defeat over her at Royal Rumble 2019 that WWE seemed to gloss over for months) and segments. One could blame that she didn't have her "Joker" (Ronda Rousey) to play off their natural chemistry as bitter enemies like Batman and Joker. I can't put all of the blame on that fact as WWE's women's divisions have been lacking depth across the board on the main roster with all of the marquee talent down on NXT. They called up Shayna Baszler to an underwhelming degree (I still don't understand why she was biting people in the neck...), only to have her LOSE at WrestleMania when it would have been the perfect narrative to have Shayna win to avenge her fellow MMA Horsewoman. Becky could have been back to clawing her way up from nothing to the top again - the same story that got fans behind her in the first place. Instead, she became what she hated - the top drawing female with the rest of the division under her thumb.

I don't want to dwell on that too much though as we're supposed to be talking about MITB here. I'm going to be completely honest. I had the PPV on as background noise on my phone while I was playing Final Fantasy VII Remake. I would occasionally glance at whatever matches were going on, but nothing really held my interest until the main event.

R-Truth vs. MVP/Lashley felt like deja vu from that feud where Lashley was beefing with Pope in Impact Wrestling while he was still a part of MVP's Beat Down Clan faction. If WWE is going to rehash that in their company, I would love to see MVP as Lashley's hype man again then. If Samoa Joe can stay off the injured list, then I say lump him into that crew as well.

How the hell did Jeff Hardy vs. Cesaro land on the kick-off show for Hardy's return but R-Truth got a match on the main card anyway? I don't mind those two feuding, but man, now more than ever we need to see Cesaro get elevated into a main event position. Stop wasting this man's fucking talents in this company. It's obvious he's not going anywhere else, so strap the rocket on him and see what happens. With the ratings at an all-time low, it's not like you got much else to lose.

Tamina vs. Bayley had me fooled for a second there towards the end. I was convinced for a second there that they would actually have Bayley drop the title to Tamina after Sasha Banks got involved to cause that rift in their friendship that everyone is waiting for. I wouldn't have been upset either as Bayley could have easily won the belt back on SmackDown! this following week in a rematch. Instead of all of that, WWE went for making Tamina look like a colossal idiot by breaking her own pin on Bayley when she had the match won just to chase Sasha around the ring. At that point, I literally said it out loud, "No wonder you haven't held a title after being in this company for so long."

I glanced at the Fatal 4 Way for the SmackDown Tag Team titles off and on, but if I'm honest here, I didn't care who was winning that. The Usos are sidelined and the New Day were defending against two "underneath"/jobber-fodder tag teams along with Miz and Morrison, who literally lost the belts a few weeks ago. I was just happy that the Forgotten Sons didn't win the gold. It disgusts me about what this company has done to those guys in the Lucha House Party since signing with the company following the Cruiserweight Classic. You'll see glimpses of Gran Metallik and Kallisto's former greatness here and there, but absolutely no one is taking them seriously as a credible threat for any titles nor for a win in general. You would think that they would be begging to get out of their contracts to head back to Mexico where their talents could be put to better use.

I thought Drew vs. Seth was the better of the two World title matches as I personally can't get into the "Mr. Rogers" Bray Wyatt matches. I didn't care when he fought Miz last year and I didn't care here when he fought Strowman. It was obviously the means to an end to setup the rematch against The Fiend at Backlash. I hope and pray to God that they don't have plans to have Strowman beat The Fiend like how he lost to Goldberg in Saudi Arabia earlier this year. I like Strowman but everyone knew that he was a transitional champion this year at WrestleMania to substitute a warm body in the ring with Goldberg (without any sort of a storyline, mind you..) when Roman Reigns decided to sit that show out for the well-being of his family during this pandemic. Let's put the belt back on Bray and have everything (at least in the WWE Universe anyway...) go back right in the world. 

As for the main event, I can't even really call that a match. It was a spectacle more than anything else with some brawling littered in-between. I wasn't embarrassed nor flat out disgusted by it, but it kept me entertained from start to finish. I thought there were some missed opportunities there though, such as possibly cuing up the Saw music when Black trapped Styles into that room full of The Undertaker's coffins and props. Wrestling twitter failed me when no one (even as of this posting) made a montage of Lacey Evans sucker punching bitches with the Women's Right like Butch Magnus on that one episode of The Boondocks where Riley got his chain stolen. The food fight was bound to happen, but I was little surprised at inter-gender brawling during that bit, especially with Shayna choking out Rey Mysterio.

I was little disappointed at the cameo from Vince McMahon in his office, but I have to admit that I see what everyone else is seeing about how bad (or rather OLD) Vince McMahon looks now. Is he getting enough sleep and eating well during this pandemic? I can understand that these times are a stressful situation, especially with his XFL revival going down the toilet for the second time in a row without even getting a foot properly off the ground and his wrestling product drawing in the all-time lowest ratings across the board. It might be the time to hand the reigns over to someone else to run this thing at this point. Let's face it, Vince, you're not getting any younger at this point. Either hand it off to Triple H and Stephanie to run or sell it to the highest bidder. I mean, c'mon... It's time to chuck things up as another L in the books if things get any worse for the E machine.

I thought the right woman won with Asuka winning the Women's MITB briefcase, which turned out to be containing the Women's Championship the following night. From the few times that I have tuned into highlights from RAW as of late in these empty arenas, Asuka has always been a highlight. It doesn't help that I have become a fan of her YouTube channel as well. You would think that she would be killing her gimmick with that YouTube channel with how adorable she is in her personal life, but it just adds to her charm as an onscreen persona (Asuka the Killer and Asuka the Adorable Otaku) when both venues are polar opposite from each other that it's EASY to keep them separated - at least in my head anyway.

As for the men, I had it pegged for AJ Styles or Aleister Black to win the entire thing and we saw where that wind up by the time this thing as all said and done. Rey Mysterio and Aleister Black found themselves thrown off the roof by Baron Corbin (AKA the Grand Marshall of the Possum Day Parade as per Jim Cornette). Corbin and Styles get to the top of the ladder and both snatch the briefcase down, but Corbin hammered with a guitar by the returning Elias. Styles fumbles with the briefcase, only for it to land in the hands of Otis below. Watching this live, I busted out laughing hysterically. Every once and a while you need to have a win like this to show that anyone could win one of these matches. I don't see why some people are acting like it's such a travesty that Otis won the MITB briefcase. It doesn't mean that he's guaranteed to win the title of his choosing whenever he decides to cash it in anyway. Besides, who says he doesn't lose it to one of the random heels on SmackDown! in a match?

Otis' win here tickled me like that time Santino Marella almost won the Royal Rumble in 2011 against Alberto Del Rio until he got thrown out at the last instant because everyone forgot that he was still in there. On paper it sounds goofy, but you need shit like that in wrestling every now and then to remind people that the squeaky clean babyfaces can pull off miracles too. That's what got people to fall in love with that event in the past. It was established that anyone had a chance to win it and not just the guys that are CLEARLY being elevated on the cards. Look at Drew McIntyre's win from this year for example. Everyone knew that he had the potential to be a World Champion since coming back to the company but was waiting on that golden opportunity to come through at the right moment. He got it two-fold in that match. He eliminated Brock Lesnar AND won the entire thing.

I'm not saying that Otis' win here should end with him winning the World title because that would be asinine at this point. All I'm saying that this could be used to further his ongoing storyline with Mandy Rose. She would come across as the ultimate heel if she left him high and dry after he gave her the MITB briefcase, who she would then award to another rising heel MALE Superstar. Then again, Tucker could turn on Otis by costing him the title opportunity too. There's a lot of ways to go with this. For me personally, I wouldn't break up Heavy Machinery anytime soon as Tucker is going to be dead in the water without that tag team to hold him up. On top of that, Otis would be a moron to cash in the contract for a tag title shot. My tag team partner would be put out to pasture if I had Mandy AND the MITB briefcase - I'm just sayin'.