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King Pitcos Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Drew McIntyre vs Matt Hardy I thought the feud was terrible, but quite funny. The Smackdown part of it was just Drew kicking Matt's head in all the time. The other half of it only existed on Hardy's Youtube channel, where he walked around doing drugged-up monologues and trying to film Drew having a shit.
TheBigBoot Posted January 5, 2011 Posted January 5, 2011 Yeah, there was that Kevin Sullivan thing where the heel "kicking Matt's head in all the time" and the heat kept building and the babyface couldn't really get revenge for a valid reason/the heel having all the power (in this case because he had the owner's stomp of approval) deliberately one-sided thing but with a babyface the audience likes (and Hardy seemed one of the few midcarders the casual fans liked/would relate to) that can work. I do think if that feud had happened in ECW or Mid-South everyone would have been raving about it. It was basically every feud Tommy Dreamer ever had with a bit of Roberts/Savage thrown in. McIntyre is no Jake Roberts and not even any Raven but Hardy, Duggan and Dreamer all worked in that role as working class heroes fighting for what they've got against the cocky young punks who would mock them but unlike a Steve Austin they don't always triumph against their 'protected' enemies. Bad things happen to good people and all that. The fact that even when McIntyre beat Hardy so badly he was stripped of the title, suspended and fired that his old pal VKM was happy to reverse the GMs decisions gave McIntyre an "untouchable" quality so the fact Hardy couldn't care less about getting fired/suspended if it meant getting his hands on him meant Hardy, who started as someone just trying to do his job, ended up with a guy who has been pushed too far/'brawler who doesn't give a damn' quality. I thought playing off that simple dynamic (office 'protected' heel vs. regular good guy wrestler) led to two of the best mid-card matches of the year and definitely the two most heated mid-card matches from SmackDown! all year: Kofi Kingston vs. Drew McIntyre (WWE Fatal 4 Way, 20th June, 2010) where from Drew's handshake with Vince to the finish the pop when Hardy cost McIntyre the I.C. title to Kingston was the highspot the whole match built towards (and did so very, very well); Matt Hardy vs. Drew McIntyre (WWE Smackdown!, 23rd June 2010) from that week's SmackDown! when with Mr. McMahon now in hospital thanks to Nexus Teddy got his revenge by reinstating Hardy, booking them in a heated grudge match (McIntyre's best showing so far) that played off their previous encounters and (for a change in current day WWE) actually ended the feud, and deporting Drew. The fact the actual matches (thinking Drew vs. Hardy rather than Kingston) all looked like fights from the short TV brawls to the big finish, packed with hurty offense, rather than dance routines helped as well.
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