[quote name='Demolition Man']Seems like the WWE doesn't want them to deliver that full five star match quite yet.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't be so conspiratorial. It's not WWE holding them back deliberately, it's them working WWE style (i.e., the match itself is window dressing to some banal soap opera nonsense involving AJ). This feud isn't really at a "grudge" stage yet such that a violent, brutal no-DQ style match made sense.
They painted by WWE numbers, but people gushed about it because it was Punk and Danielson, not John Cena.
[quote name='silentevil']I thought the Punk, Bryan match was great.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it made sense. Why was is an all-out brawl? They've honestly spent the past few weeks *whining* at each other and making smarmy verbal jabs. The feud totally lacked that 'oomph' a feud needs in order for a violent brawl to make sense in the context of the match. This wasn't Andy Kaufman piledriving women and belittling the entire south. It was - well, what was it? Something that involves AJ being crazy and WWE catering to the "middle-school girls are sexy" segment of the crowd, I suppose. I don't get it, and I'm not really interested in where it's headed.
It's like when HHH wrestled Randy Orton at WM-whatever, when Orton broke into his house and tried to kill his family or whatever. Triple H still walked down to the ring, slowly, did his whole entrance, pose, etc. Completely tore apart any semblance of belief in the feud, because a man whose family had legit been threatened would tear down to the ring, say forget the belt, and try to take an axe to his head. The ring stuff in both cases just (to me, I suppose) seems so awfully disconnected from the setup for the feuds that I couldn't get into it.
Cena winning MITB doesn't get me irate. Acting upset that Cena wins a main event? Marrrrrrrrrrrrk. Come on, people.