Eric Bischoff (via his 83 weeks Podcast) gave his thoughts on the Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi rematch from Clash in Italy…
“A rubber match that I don’t care about because none of it makes sense.
The first one didn’t make sense. The second one didn’t make sense. Well, the first one made sense, but the second one didn’t make sense. There was no story. There was no setup. There was no why
You know, people talk about how great storylines are, and it’s subjective. Everybody’s got different opinions. But for me, if a story at any given time doesn’t either answer the question ‘why?’ or provoke you to try to figure out why a character is embarking on a certain journey, destination, or goal, then you’re not really interested.
And Brock got beat. He had tears in his eyes. I believed him. He took off his stuff. He left it in the ring. All of the things that are a signature goodbye. And he came back.
Why?
I don’t know. Doesn’t matter.
Oh, doesn’t it?
Well, then neither does the match that follows the lack of why. And therefore, neither will the rubber match, if indeed there is one.
Unless somewhere along the line somebody tells me why he took his sh*t off and left it in the ring and then jumped back into the ring without an explanation. There’s got to be a reason why. It doesn’t even have to be that good. Just give me something—something to believe in this much—and then maybe.
But without it, it’s just… eh. It’s like moving pieces around on the chessboard or on the checkerboard. It doesn’t really set anything up. It doesn’t really matter. But you are moving checkers around, so there’s that.”