I think they're going to swing to HHH/Jericho now. Orton will probably argue about the sledgy shot, but Jericho will then come out and interupt.

I guess it makes sense, but it just seems like quite a lot of effort to go to to give your babyface a reason not to cheat. Why does this match need an explanation for why the babyface can't just throw the match and keep his belt when every other title match in the history of wrestling doesn't?

He's the face. He wants to avoid retaining his belt on a DQ because that's what faces do.

But HHH isn't that kind of kiss ass babyface. He wanted to destroy Orton at any cost, even if it meant getting DQ'd. The stipulation was to ensure he fought fair, because more than anything, HHH wanted revenge and probably would have stopped caring about the match half way and just brained Orton with the sledge in front of the ref.

Yeah, so the lesson is: don't book a feud that requires you to have such a dumb stipulation in order for there to even be a result

I get that the feud has been really personal and all that, but there's already a World Title on the line, and if their overblown build up means they have to mess around with that then maybe it's time to rethink what they're emphasising?

Yeah, they probably did book themselves into a corner. The feud ended up not being hardly about the world championship and more about solving a personal vendetta, and they didn't really integrate the title into it.

I know I'm late on this but HHH/Orton fucking blew chunky chunks.

All it did was make Orton look like a gigantic pussy.

That is all.