Bang For Your Buck PPV Review: The 2014 Tables, Ladders, Chairs (and Stairs) WWE PPV

WWE Tag Team Title Match

MizDo(w)s (C) vs. The Usos

Best Case Scenario: MizDo(w)s continues to innovate their presentation, moving past stealing each other’s pins/submissions for attention, and retain the titles.

Relatively short, and fairly sweet, this match allowed the MizDo(w)s to, well, “continue to innovate their presentation, mov(e) past stealing each other’s pins/submission for attention, and retain the titles,” as the divide between Miz and MizDow grows for an entire logical reason: Miz was totally fine with MizDow getting the attention if he was able to hold onto the tangible parts of the glory like the title belts, MizDow’s Slammy and all of the talk time on interviews. But now that he’s getting shown up in his hometown, it’s become clear that Miz is no longer as cool with the way things are right now.

Add to this not just what’s become a genuinely interesting B-plot for this storyline involving the Miz, Naomi and Whichever Uso Naomi is married to —  sorry, all Samoan identical twins look alike to me, deal with it — that’s been built with actual nuance and executed with palpable energy and commitment (seriously, y’all, that slap from Jey (?) gave Miz on Raw was the best thing on the entire show) but the continue genius of the MizDow-Miz dynamic and you have a match that is definitely worth watching again.

Especially now that MizDow’s tomfoolery has begun to put Miz at a legitimate disadvantage — like when one of the Usos put Miz in whatever that medieval torture submission was as MizDow sold it on the apron instead of helping Miz  — which has led him to begin to use Damien more and more as an actual stunt double. The amount of layers in all this is the type of storytelling that we simply do not get in professional wrestling, and it’s something that nearly every viewer — both casual and hXc — looks forward to each week. And in wrestling, along with “and nobody gets hurt”, that’s all you can ask for.

Match .5 | PPV 1.8

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