There's something to the gimmicks selling themselves.
Strap Matches are virtually impossible to make good, although these two may be the perfect guys to do it with. With the two strong men trying to drag each other around the ring you can get an interesting story out of it. In any logical universe this is either not the blow-off to this "feud" or this is a glorified #1 Contenders Match, whoever wins this match should get a little bit of momentum going. Hope they don't waste it.
But that's the odd thing. If Mark Henry wins, then that should mean he'd get a title shot, right? Well then Cena will have to retain. Sure, there's a great chance we'll get a dirty finish involving the Shield so Ryback would be kinda protected, but still... Ryback's lost all momentum and he's really dying in front of crowds, he's really gotta win that belt and become a serious monster heel to have a chance at repairing his image, going from "the guy who destroys people 3-on-1" to this wimp is quite jarring, and he hasn't won a PPV Match since MITB. So much for the Goldberg chants. But the match seemed at first like it would be another "Cena overcomes obvious Shield interference" mess again, but the LMS Stipulation makes the finish more unpredictable and enjoyable... plus, lets not let these two EVER have a singles match. God that would be bad.
Does anyone remember the Triple-Threat IC Title Match from... um, I believe it was TLC 2010? The one with Kofi and Swagger on top of the ladder, grabbing the belt, then they dropped it and Ziggler ran in the ring to grab it and win? Replay that and replace Kofi with Del Rio. Ziggler's a paper champion with no credibility, man, really sucks for that guy.
Ratings Killer Orton vs The World's Largest Bottle of Somnapure, really is there any point discussing this one? Again, if the winner goes on to enter the WHC scene it should be interesting, but this just seems like filler otherwise. These two have put on plenty of fine hardcore matches before so the quality should be there.
HHH vs Lesnar, you know how I feel by now, but the Steel Cage element is interesting because so many of the brutal spots we've seen were out of the ring. This match will be much different than previous encounters, so that's nice.
As a standalone PPV it should be very good, as with most Extreme Rules shows.