Watching in the background, but Charlotte looking good from her time off

2020. The year two people got thrown off a roof, one person got buried alive, one person lost the same eye twice, and another person burned to death.

I get it's supposed to be no DQ, but the constant unchecked involvement of Uso throughout the entire match made a mockery of an otherwise enjoyable title match.

The Orton/Fiend garbage though - than never approached anything near enjoyable.

It was late last night, and I forgot one person who drowned in a swamp, one person being erased from existence and/or being banished to somewhere else in the multiverse, one person falling twenty feet onto concrete, and lots of women being forced to wrestle Nia Jax.

who? was it at least an accident?

I was going to add in brainwashing but realize it's pretty tame compared to everything you mentioned.

Ironically, the thing I want most out of my wrestling is the feeling that something is at stake or there are consequences high enough that what I'm watching matters enough to get me invested (provided there's some coherence to the series of events).

These people really hate each other. Fear that someone could be seriously hurt. I can't wait to see what happens next.

NXT has been able to do that often enough that it's my favorite wrestling product. AEW accomplishes this occasionally. Yet, for all of the things that the main WWE product has done this year that have been mentioned here (like what should be real life or death stuff), I never feel like the stakes are serious enough to garner serious interest because it's never built up enough between the competitors before hand or they're back the next show or it's more an attempted comedic effect than serious one.

I actually enjoyed this element because 1. it absolutely fits Roman's character being smart and using whatever loopholes the stipulation provides and 2. Kevin Owen's has spent the last 5 years stabbing every friend he has in the back and because of this he has nobody to step in and help him when he's getting abused.

I'm not saying Roman shouldn't have tried, but shouldn't WWE officials have made some attempt to not make this match a mockery. Or just find some kind of way to announce it as a handicap match. I mean, KO should have just brought a gun to the ring by their logic.

Could you remind me who got erased/banished somewhere else in the multiverse?

It was a throwback to 1999-2005 HHH Championship matches where he had someone helping him in every single match, so I appreciate that a little bit from a nostalgia perspective.

Cena

Lol that ****ing foley work