Bang for Your Buck PPV Review: WWE Battleground

 Randy Orton defeats Daniel Bryan to win WWE Title

What Nick Wants to Happen: Daniel Bryan does Daniel Bryan things, Randy Orton does Patrick Bateman things, finish does Dusty things.

There are going to be a lot of people who complain about this ending, and an equal amount of people who think the people complaining about the ending don’t understand how wrestling works. I may agree more with the latter group than the former, but I definitely see where the people complaining are coming from. I thought it was a well done match with a clever ending highlighted by Brad Maddox’s “Rigging the Daniel Bryan-Randy Orton match blew up in his face” face. Other people saw a way to hold the belt in abeyance until John Cena comes back or they can move the storyline forward. Most of these people are cynics, or Triple H haters. And you know what? They are TOTALLY justified. This company has never done what’s best for business, so not exactly embracing them saying it after making you spend 60 dollars twice to have Daniel Bryan not go over, and no one gets the title to boot,  ignores on some level that, if done right, this will be one of the better storylines of the last few years. And sometimes, you have pay for some eggs to be cracked before the omelette is made.

Match: +.8

This PPV was as mediocre as everyone expected it to be, easily the least good PPV we’ve reviewed. But since there wasn’t a bad match, and it was a deep card, it also had the most overall “value”. There were probably two matches that are debatable from our rankings — the Del Rio and Bryan matches — so, this may be also the lowest one we’ve had overall as well in terms of value. Outside of the brilliant Rhodes match, there was nothing particularly worth paying for unless you are already a fan of the product or the principals involved. Hopefully this is just a matter of them not wanting to shoot their wad before Hell in a Cell. Hopefully.

PPV: 4.1 | Match Avg: .4555 (.46 if you’re nasty)

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