Official Battleground Thread: 7/19/2015

Why did Cena win?

It stoopid.

My question is how do you book Owens now?

He can't just start losing on Raw. He kicked out of like 3 AAs and one of them was from the top rope. It's not like Owens can just lose to a Spear next week on Raw or something...

Like, what they gonna do with him now?

Thats what I was thinking but I think Undertaker is too far into his career and too respected to be booed by crowds, he's not like HHH where he's on tv every week to keep up being a heel

Got dammit.

I agree withe everything besides Wyatt/Taker. I really liked that storyline but I think I've probably made it clear I'm a Wyatt mark.

On the bright side last night:

The hot crowd helped Orton/Sheamus through probably their best match together.
The tag title match was pretty good
Xavier ing Woods
The Divas triple threat

It's almost going to get to the point where guys won't want to work with Cena because a fued with him is pointless.

Of course guys are going to want to work with Cena because he's the biggest star in the company but in the back of their minds they'll be thinking it'll be pointless in the end because Cena wins lol

Cena has been having great matches lately but the only person it makes look good is him because it's Cena having great matches shocker. It's not really elevating anyone. It elevated Owens by having him best him but that has now been undone with a clean pinfall and a clean tap out.

After Battleground I am genuinely wondering why I waste hours of my life watching this shit, I'm starting to feel like I felt in 1995 just a constant frustration.

I will only save my breath for the two matches I was anticipating the most.

I actually missed Cena/Owens II, so I really don't know how it stacks up to the third one. With that being said, the ending was kinda abrupt. If they really wanted Cena to go over, that's fine. But making Owens tap out was the wrong way to do it. That booking was so weird. He just kicked out of the AA from the top rope. It was like at WrestleMania XXV when Undertaker caught Michaels with the Tombstone and he kicked out. He had to find some way to finish him off and he saw his opening with the moonsault. That makes sense and was a great counter. Owens loses his intimidation factor now. It would have been easier if there was a false finish, and at SummerSlam, Owens won the title. There is still a possibility of Owens winning at SummerSlam and he has to, but this was the wrong call all around.

On the upside, this means Cena is still champion and I have been enjoying his reign so far. But I know WWE has this bizarre fetish for taking guys who Cena beat and making them irrelevant laughingstocks. Just because you lost to the face of the company, does not mean you lose all credibility. WWE better make the right decision next month and have Owens go over Cena. I expect Cesaro will most likely get involved or Rusev so the title picture has gotten a lot more interesting than it would have if Owens won last night.

The main event was absolute garbage, and that's not even addressing what happened afterwards. My best friend has constantly told me that he does not buy into Rollins as champion because he does not intimidate anyone and he looks like a joke next to Lesnar. So what does WWE do? Have Lesnar manhandle the world champion for 10-15 minutes. A squash match can be fun (SummerSlam last year) but Rollins needed to look strong last night. He needed to legitimize his title reign. Lesnar giving him 13 German suplexes is not the answer. All it tells me is Rollins was done for until Undertaker bizarrely showed up and attacked Lesnar? With no commentary?

WWE has officially booked themselves into a corner. There is absolutely no reason for Undertaker to want retribution for Lesnar ending the streak at this point. They were both at WrestleMania this year. If they really wanted Taker to get involved, just do it then and have Rollins cash in afterwards. Now we have to see these two compete at SummerSlam in a match that we never wanted in the first place. I imagined Undertaker wanting vengeance, but not 15 months afterwards. Not three months after he beat someone else at WrestleMania. There are only two solutions: Undertaker beats Lesnar clean or Sting gets involved and costs Undertaker the match, setting up the two at WrestleMania XXXII next year. Lesnar wins clean, Undertaker looks like an idiot for coming back. Undertaker wins clean, then there was no reason to end the Streak even though it would make more booking sense at this point.

WWE is in deep, deep trouble heading into SummerSlam. They need to save themselves before this event winds up being a disaster. How humiliating would it be if NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn ends up feeling more like the second-biggest show of the year than the actual second-biggest show of the year? By the way, why is the Royal Rumble considered third on the pecking order? It has actual ramifications on WrestleMania, should that not count for anything? With that being said, I think Rollins is in worse shape than Owens. They can still salvage Owens, but with Rollins, SummerSlam is his last chance. If he comes out of Brooklyn looking illegitimate, his reign means absolutely nothing from that point forward. The company has shot itself in the foot and I have no idea how they plan to recover.