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This is the match WWE needed to book to cement Cena’s first-night-back title win at Survivor Series last month, or so the theory goes. The good news is that the match was quite solid.

Jericho, who has been turning in match-of-the-year contenders most of the year with Shawn Michaels, is now primed for a long feud with Cena, and his experience from the extended Michaels feud benefited him tonight. Both Cena and Jericho earned their designer watches tonight, and although Cena predictably won, the match didn’t necessarily resolve the feud, so much as add fuel to the fire.

But considering we’re now in the run-up to WrestleMania, that’s only apropos.