I said I’d get to this, so here goes: We can’t just introduce every night’s main event by positioning one person or group against another, railing away on some promo, then getting interrupted by the person or group on the other side of the feud, only to see that main event end in disqualification because obviously, we were headed toward something bigger somewhere down the line and we want to keep everyone relatively protected. Good grief, that was some kind of a run-on sentence! But it kind of jives with this formulaic approach that WWE seems to love so much. Long-term storytelling, right?

Look, things are so much better than they once were, even looking as not-so-far back as Paul Heyman’s “third inning” comment, so I’m not accusing anyone of giving us the same matches over and over and over again, because rematch clauses. But we have been very much stuck in the opening-promo-interruption-to-cue-the-main-event routine for some time now, and there’s gotta be a better way.

Friday night, it was LA Knight basically saying, “I’m here, you’re here, let’s have a match, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.” Only when Heyman showed up to object did we even have the chance to wonder, “Hey, maybe we’re going somewhere creative here,” but not so much. His rant had some merit, but eventually, it led to our main event, which saw Sikoa get Jimmy disqualified by attacking Knight.

The good news is, we’re (or at least I’m) going into this next PLE with high hopes for some quality wrestling and stories. These groups against each other anytime is a great thing that’s easy for anyone to follow and appreciate. And the even better news is that any combination from either side will make for a fantastic WarGames match (even if it doesn’t involve 12 people).