The days of Better Than You Bay Bay, Wembley Stadium main events and double clotheslines seem to have happened in a completely different universe at this point, as Adam Cole and MJF are still feuding. But thankfully, after a year that did neither of them any favors, their feud is finally over… hopefully.

This might sound like love at first sight, and to be completely honest, the end of the feud is one of the main things that makes me look forward to 2025, but the biggest problem I have with Cole and Friedman’s match , was actually the blood. I’m not squeamish or anything, I’m one of those people that Swerve Strickland and “Hangman” Page almost killed each other at All Out, but unlike that match, this match at Worlds End didn’t warrant or deserve a splash of color.

Will Ospreay bled freely in the show’s opening match against Kyle Fletcher, telling the story of the plucky babyface enduring one of the toughest nights of his life when his match with Kazuchika Okada was over. Thunder Rosa and Mariah May had some blood because it was a street fight, and Jon Moxley bled a lot in the main event because of course he did, he’s Jon Moxley. But this match doesn’t just have one, but both guys wielding the blade? Go to bed.

The build up to this match was cold and dry, but that can sometimes be saved by the fact that the match is a show stealer on pay-per-view, but the only thing that stole this match was the time from everyone’s life lost whoever saw it in the end. I don’t like to openly disparage wrestling, but the fact that this feud, THIS FEUD, the feud that actively turned people away from the company this time last year, has been revived in a form where Cole and MJF Having the roles reversed made it infinitely less interesting, and being given a PPV match bothers me.

That’s why the blood bothers me. Color in wrestling can make a good match great and a great match a classic. However, this was never going to be a classic because people didn’t care. That story was over, we were away from it, and now Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong, each having had very strong years, were drawn back into this hellscape of a rivalry that had nearly torpedoed the company’s goodwill. Instead, the blood was brought out in this fight because the feud had been going on for so long, and that was not only unnecessary, but it also belittled the other bloody faces we’ve seen on this show. I hope to the wrestling gods that this feud is over forever, and I hope that the next time one of them wields the blade, it means something to them.

Written by Sam Palmer