While I still don’t really fully understand how anyone is qualifying for the WWE Undisputed Tag Team Championship Six-Pack Challenge at WrestleMania since they made it way more complicated than it needed to be, I do know this: The Good Brothers (okay, The OC, I guess) didn’t need to be involved in this at all if they weren’t going to make their way into the actual title match. Seasoned vets though they be, surely willing to elevate whomever they must at this point in their careers, this wasn’t that, and instead, losing tonight to Grayson Waller and that other guy was a tough pill to swallow.

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It wouldn’t matter whatsoever if they weren’t also entwined in a similar tag team 27-car pileup in NXT for yet another multi-squad match at Stand & Deliver. But they are. And because of that, them losing here makes them less than they should be there.

Moreover, their inclusion in both brackets, or scrambles, or whatever we have going on here, doesn’t make sense in the least. If they’re in both, theoretically, they could win both. And that was never going to happen. I get suspension of disbelief — if you’ve been a fan of professional wrestling for as long as I have, that just comes with the territory — but things have to make sense. Okay, fine, MOST things have to make at least A LITTLE sense.

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Now, for the record, I don’t think The OC is competing at Stand & Deliver either, but at least that makes sense in that whichever team topples them gets the rub and goes on to the big(ger) stage with that equity in their back pockets. But that doesn’t excuse their loss tonight. Somebody else could have easily played that role and I, at least, would be sitting here less confused. Of course, somebody else wouldn’t have had Michin along for the ride and the more of her we get, the better. So there, I’m keeping it positive in the end.

Written by Jon Jordan