basically Tim - HHH is a big character in this feud, and played a role different from how you'd expect Vince to, even though HHH is in the Vince slot. I think it's good sign going forward that we don't necessarily have 'business as usual' from that slot.
HHH wanted a fair match, and to his observations, he called one. Maybe the finish was meant to keep Cena looking good, maybe it's there to give Cena an easy automatic reason to have a title shot. But HHH didn't ignore the foot on the rope, he just didn't see it.
And he was helpless for the Big Daddy Cool/ADR stuff, I'd say he certainly looked like a guy who thought he had things under control, only to have that control taken from him. Which I would say plays into the feud he and Punk sort of have.
I dunno, I didn't like that it was Diesel, and I didn't like that it came out of nowhere, but everything else I did like. Except the "you can't wrestle" chants when Cena was out-wrestling Punk again.
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