Big Show gets overexposed going into Vengeance, Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara delights and disappoints,and one final rant on Booker T

TheWrestlingTimes.com  By - Kent Jones

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara

WWE Smackdown Hits

Wade Barrett vs. Daniel Bryan: Even though the show had relatively

few misses, there weren't exactly that many hits either. And even

those hits had problems. Take this match, for example. Barrett and

Bryan put on a very good five minute match that left me salivating

for a 15 plus minute match from them. Yet it was also a useless

match. Barrett has no heat right now, and defeating Bryan, again,

is not going to help because Bryan has no heat. Two guys in the

indys can get in the ring and spontaneously get each other over

with their skill. That doesn't happen in WWE because of how

everything on TV is structured. These two are great in the ring

together. Give them a story and watch it explode into something

spectacular.

Dolph Ziggler: I do not think there is a better in-ring guy in WWE

right now than Dolph Ziggler. He took that Brogue kick from Sheamus

like a shotgun blast to the face. He can be over the top sometimes,

but so were a lot of great sellers. In fact, if I had to compare

Ziggler to anyone at this point, it would be Shawn Michaels, who

also went over the top at times (and I'm not even counting the

giant middle finger he gave Hogan). If there was anybody I would

want to see work twice in the same night on a WWE PPV, it is

without a doubt, Dolph Ziggler.

WWE Smackdown Misses

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara: I struggled with this for a while. I thought

about putting it in the hits for a moment because both of these

guys have had problems with botches at one time or another and this

was a pretty good match. But after considering all that, I realized

it had to go into the misses. The good match only serves to

highlight how poorly this story was told. The only reason that

crowd was hot was for its native sons. If this match happens in the

US, it's crickets. And that's a shame. This story had a good core,

but the creative team is designed to fail. Hunico and Mistico were

just victims of that design, but this still hurts both men in at

least the short term.

Booker T: I promised myself I wouldn't complain about the announce

team again. At this point, I am generally able to tune them out,

especially when they start all the snarking back and forth. But

Booker T was beyond the pale last night, and his most egregious

garbage was at the end of the Sin Cara match when he sold Hunico's

unmasking like he would have Kane's. Cole's, "What? It's a normal

guy with a crew cut," only served to paint Booker in bright shades

of moron when Booker continued to insist Hunico was "hideous." And

let's not forget his genius in the main event when he told us, "Big

Show's got that left hand, he's got that right hand." I believe in

my heart of hearts that Booker is playing a character and he's

really not this stupid. But that statement begs the ultimate

question: Why?

Big Show vs. Alberto Del Rio: How awful was this match? Bad enough

that I picked up the remote before remembering I was covering. The

problem is Big Show is over exposed. Smaller guys can come back

with new stuff all the time. Big guys don't have that leisure. So

it's the same thing as soon as he returns. And why, with his

limited move set, would you put him in a long TV match just a few

days before a long PPV match? Way to overexpose him even more! Del

Rio, for his part, did nothing to help this match. I don't know if

it's lack of experience of working with big men, or the agent

stunk, or what. But this was a terrible main event.