Bada boom, HEEL-EST GUY IN THE ROOM!
So what happens when the irresistible heel meets the immovable feel?
Aside from me slightly mourning the fact that Big Cass didn't come out with glasses on, claim he got his teaching certificate, and then scream "I CAN teach that! I CAN TEACH IT ALLLLL!," Monday's re-do of the Cass/Enzo split was really well done. This was a week of doubling down on the wonky heel decisions that felt so wrong and awkward the week before. And all of them involving the once-solid trio of Enzo, Cass, and Carmella.
You can see it as a systematic stripping away of everyone who Enzo used to introduce. First the package dropped Carmella. Now Enzo can't even talk Cass to the ring. All he has left is his certification, his bonification, and his realness quotient within a confined proximity. Bada boom. Over. He's the mouthpiece for no one. Big Cass apparently thinks his size is all he needs (spoiler: he's right) and Carmella has the equally ridiculous Ellsworth to stooge for her. Enzo's a chicken-f***er without a farm.
But yeah, part of me wondered, during the segment, when Cass was eventually going to lower the boom on Enzo during their brief reconciliation. But the longer it went, the more I also wondered if WWE was trying to do a take-back. Not a full recall, but perhaps a reunion that would lead the duo to a title shot and then - BLAMMO - Cass would turn on Enzo then. Or, say, Enzo would Enzo and lose the match for the them and then Cass would strike. And feel even more validated.
But the way it all went down was still excellent. I got flip-flam de-duped! They had me. Even after the DIY split, they still got me, dammit. Last week it felt like a big mistake. And yes, there is a part of me that still feels this, but at least the fact that they never won any titles as a tag team was part of this week's segment. Their wasted potential. And yes, even more gratifying was that at the heart of it all was the fact that Enzo is just really freaking annoying. Just a next-level pest. Cass may have a big galoot quality to him, but choosing between him and a Scrappy-Doo type is a no-brainer.
Of course, you can't do a HBK/Jannetty Barbershop Window moment quite like you used to, so they had to basically do this split twice for maximum effect. The second time it made more sense because Enzo got to speak out and say his peace and then Cass also got to reiterate that as deep as their bond went, nothing could overcome Enzo's incessant squawking. It was too much. So if you're going to commit to this turn, and this split, then really drive it home. And they did.
I can only hope that WWE has plans for these two after they finish feuding with each other and hahahahahaha sorry I actually couldn't finish this sentence. Of course they don't. Hopefully they can land on their feet and not flounder too much. Worse case scenario (or...best case?), things don't work out and WWE just forgets this rift ever happened and they just Rusev and Lana them back into a team.
Let's talk about Carmella now too since she's kind of part of this equation. Not part of the storyline, per se, but she was also coming off a weird week of mishaps and do-overs. All in the name of pushing her up through the ranks and turning her into a more legitimate force as a heel. Now, like I said last week, WWE needed to have her re-win the case. And she did. I could have lived with Enzo and Cass getting back together over on RAW, but it would have been a mistake to give someone else the MITB case at this point and totally negate Carmella's PPV win.
She needed to reclaim the contract and do it in one of two ways: Either she had to do it in a more definitive way, which she did (Ellsworth's run-in, or whatever, was expected), or she had to cheat even more - in a much worse way. My idea was that Ellsworth could be up in the rafters and physically manipulate the cord that holds the case. He could either raise it so that someone else couldn't get it, or lower it so that Carmella didn't even have to climb a ladder. But she did it in a more traditional heel fashion. Which, I guess, is all we ever wanted. Because if she won at the PPV the way she won on SmackDown, there wouldn't have been a big to-do hullaballoo about it.
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