i'm still a bit perplexed by the people who i saw who were upset that swerve lost specifically because to them it denies them swerve/hangman at all in, above all else.
i still don't get where people were saying this so confidently from, but i feel that no it doesn't, necessarily, prevent that. but i don't really care about if they have a title match in four months. not right now.
this has done a more immediate and in-depth development of the relationship between swerve and hangman. the last two weeks have been crazy good for strickpagers. swerve admitting he deserved what hangman did to him, and the deflation after, hangman walking away.
hangman hesitating on what he was even doing on the edge of the ring. he could hurt swerve - or he could help him, do the right thing in taking out moxley. we're pretty sure (or perhaps just hopeful) he would've taken out moxley, but a moment's indecision cost him that choice - the chance - to show who he can be. and the ppv ended on the two of them looking at each other. i don't need a world title rematch in four months. i need whatever the hell is happening to them, right now.
... which could still end up as a (title) match at all in, theoretically. tagging together seems more likely, but that doesn't preclude the rivalry continuing - or becoming something else: two men trying to understand and find each other through wrestling. (the potential for it to become this could be a current era, mainstream ilja dragunov/cara noir series. probably with less handholding, but probably not none.)
i know it's wrestling and the point is matches to an extent, but to me wrestling is about the stories that the matches support. sometimes silly, sometimes bad, often heartbreaking and captivating.
