Raw scores HUGE rating on Monday.

[Shocky]

Thus lies the problem of this particular 3 Stages of Hell. They should have just made it an ambulance match, semi similar. The other 3 all had logical match types, this stretcher thing is just out of nowhere.

 

[Shocky]

Yeah, you can have multiple rivals, but THE Rival always marks most mens careers. If you ask a majority of wrestling fans to say one name for Rival to the Rock, Austin will probably make that list 75% fo the time. Likewise with Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, they exist together. Triple H has never had the great career rival like others have. Hogan has Piper, Flair and Sting, yadda yadda. Nothing springs to mind with Triple H as a great career rival.

 

[OIL]

The LMS match was good for RAW. On PPV it would have been god awful.

 

[ztwhite]

Yeah, you can have multiple rivals, but THE Rival always marks most mens careers. If you ask a majority of wrestling fans to say one name for Rival to the Rock, Austin will probably make that list 75% fo the time. Likewise with Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, they exist together. Triple H has never had the great career rival like others have. Hogan has Piper, Flair and Sting, yadda yadda. Nothing springs to mind with Triple H as a great career rival.

But that's what makes HHH so good IMO.

He has been able to compete with everyone on the roster at any given time and make them look credible.

I know there are a lot of people who think HHH is a piece of crap when it comes to putting people over, but despite the outcome of a match, they're always reasonably entertaining.

A little over a year ago, he actually made the Great Khali look somewhat decent in the ring.

I don't think a guy needs a defined "rival" to make his career legendary.

The Rock is a legend for his mic skills, not his ring skills. Austin is a legend for the storyline he played out with McMahon. Foley is a legend for taking the sickest bumps the industry has ever seen. Sting is a legend for simply never signing with the WWE. Hogan is a legend for making the WWF / WWE popular. Flair is a legend for simply being Flair (and a 16 time world champ).

All of the aforementioned guys would be legends with or without a main rival based on everything they did for the industry, not just a certain person they had good matches with.

Does HHH have a legacy yet ?? No, he doesn't. But having a thousand matches with Orton isn't going to provide him with one. Becoming a 17 time world champ will and that's why he pushes himself down our throats (which I don't mind - I love the guy). But in all honesty, can you blame the guy for wanting to create a legacy for himself, regardless of how contrived or undeserving a member of the IWC deems it to be ??

 

[BooCocky]

Cena gave Khali his best match in my opinion...

 

[Coco]

The LMS was bad. Not as good as their first LMS together, and neither touches Jericho-Hunter or Cena-Umaga for me.

Punk wearing something other than his wrestling attire = ratings? Me thinks so.

 

[supersayian]

the LMS standing was not all that bad. way better then WM 25. that even had build up to it and failed badly. This 3 stages of hell is kind of Exciting as it will end feud as it does all. the match types really make no sence to me though. wrestling match how much more lame can that get. this should been street fight. 2 falls count anywhere. this type is OK but not to much from LMS without the 10 Count. should have been stretcher here. as it ties in well with my third choice. Ambulence match. stretcher ties in well here because then you have two stipulations that tie well together. Miz vs Cena worries me as they will try to bury Mizz here. hope he wins by DQ or interferance.

 

[Coco]

Regular matches are lame... I'm not sure I understand.

 

[Uncle Sam]

The most entertaining part of the highlights was Cena's promo. Motherfucker can work the stick like nobody's business.

 

[klunderbunker]

The rating impressed me, but didn't surprise me. It was designed to be a ratings draw and a ratings draw it was. However, if WWE wants to keep ratings anywhere close to that, how about a main storyline that isn't connected to a faction that broke up 4 years ago?