I am very, very happy that the New Day got to stand triumphant at the end of RAW and absorb a bit of actual heel heat. I mean, these guys are heel in theory, but they're perpetually teetering. Often, they're too entertaining for their own good, though I'm not complaining. And I certainly don't want them to turn babyface. They appeal to those of us who love to cheer heels. And who love kitsch. I know, it's not traditional behavior, but there are certainly enough of us crappy contrarians out there to make their gimmick work.

Essentially, New Day is a heel gimmick that would have slayed down in NXT. Which makes it all the more miraculous that it's working on RAW considering how both Bo Dallas and Adam Rose flailed and failed after their call-ups. This incarnation of New Day though is really more "changing your sails to suit the wind" than anything else. These guys had to adapt or die, and the post-Mania RAW (which featured a lot of NXT fans) helped them get out of the rut they were in as "good guys."So while they didn't get to open RAW (that honor went to Lesnar, who basically repeated the beat down on Big Show for those who didn't catch the supremely "meh" MSG card on Saturday), they got to take out all the heroes and leave the episode on top. And one of the most interesting side aspects to the big melee at the end was Ziggler inadvertently taking out Cena. Which seems to set up an upcoming Cena feud, which in turn makes all the speculation about the Total Divas storyline featuring Dolph getting incorporated into RAW feel like something more than a crack pipe dream.For those who missed the TD finale last week, Dolph got brought into the mix in a huge way as Nikki's ex. A fact I wasn't aware of at all. And for what it's worth - for whatever fakery's involved in that show's set-ups, stagings, and stories - Dolph heavily put himself in between Nikki and John and ended the show by telling her that he could give her the marriage and kids she'd always dreamed of. And then he leaned in for a kiss and...TO BE CONTINUED, MOTHERF***ERS!So Ziggler moves in on Cena's woman. Who used to be his woman. For, like, a long-ass time as it turns out. Then there came a groundswell of support (kicked off by Foley?) for a Ziggler/Cena U.S. Title feud. Then came the news that Cena - and this is a whole other onion to peel - will actually be taking a bunch of time off for "personal reasons." Like, perhaps more time off than we've ever seen Cena take barring injuries. He's not filming anything that I know of, but he'll be gone. Will he drop the title?And if Ziggler winds up funding with Cena (can't see how this is avoidable at this point) will the Total Divas thing actually get brought up? Keep in mind, Cena has appeared quite a bit on the show but nothing there's ever really bled over onto RAW. No heel's ever called him out for being a wishy-washy, mind game-y commitment-phobe and his offscreen relationship with Nikki has never been made part of the storyline, in the way Brie and Daniel Bryan's was. But, over the past few weeks, Paige has actually been vaguely calling out Nikki's coital connection to Cena. Without getting into specifics, of course. Or even names. So has the time finally come for everything to get synergized as f***? Total Divas stories, most often, are just as manufactured as RAW angles so why not merge the two? Despite the non-PG elements of TD, of course.Will Nikki become a big part of the Ziggler/Cena feud or will that feel too much like back when they battled over AJ? Or will their war simply be Ziggler wanting to prove he deserves to be a top guy and that he's better than John and yada yada bing bong shmada? And then all the TD watchers will know that there's also this extra, simmering layer underneath? We'll see. But I'm excited about the prospects.Kane and Rollins however? Not as excited. Or interested. Like, at all. I know "f***s given" about this bizarre, meta storyline are a tax deduction, but I still can't bring myself to donate. Like the off-putting two week hot shot push for Big Show leading into his match with Lesnar, I just can't care about Kane. I can't get over this hump. I'll always value him as a stalwart, longtime performer, but this story is purely for kids who have no active memory of any booking beyond a year ago and who like to see Seth act really dumb while bad things happen to him. It's a guy stepping on a rake and having it flip up and hit him in the balls. It's a fat guy farting and then spilling food on himself. It's basically the storyline version of this image...I just can't imagine how anyone would think that the grand announcement of Seth Rollins vs. Demon Kane would do anything for anyone. Or that the possible firing of Corporate Kane as an added stipulation is anything to care about. At least we know that if Kane does get fired, it'll be straight to the soup kitchen for him since, storyline-wise, not only do WWE Superstars never have any savings tucked away, but they're also incapable of making any lateral moves professionally. It's either GM/Director of Operations or dish-washer at a Shoney's.Meanwhile, Taker and Lesnar inside the Cell still feels like a weird, wicked afterthought. But then, really, it's all about Brock though, right? And his "Go to Hell" Tour and whatever that entails. A tour that made it so important to hype the ever-living hades out of that dang MSG show this past weekend. A show that was - well - fine. It was a house show. Like it was supposed to be. A little more production involved, naturally. And I'm all for these house show/live-events to be shown on the Network. In the future, just don't build them up and hype them as if they're somehow the towering black monolith in 2001.

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