The Authority Makes Night Of Champions More Difficult For Seth Rollins

This was something that seemed obvious, but it was made official on Raw this week. In addition to defending his WWE Championship against Sting at Night of Champions, Seth Rollins must defend the United States Championship against John Cena. Stephanie McMahon made the call.

Even before that final segment where this match was made, you had Sting playing some mind games earlier in the night. He was causing some friction between Seth Rollins and The Authority. I don't think there needs to be a special occasion for there to be friction between The Authority and anyone else on their side. Anyway, it is at least good that Sting is showing up on Raw to help further the storyline. And with John Cena also feuding against Seth Rollins, Sting won't be needed to do too much to keep things interesting for the next two Raws before the PPV. You have had some feuds involving part-timers become annoying because the development just doesn't work out. The feuds going on right here should be fine.

Back to the WWE once again teasing friction within The Authority. I seem to bring this up way too much, but I guess I have to if the WWE keeps doing it. Being consistent does not mean you do something 100% of the time, but you should be doing it closer to 100% than 50%. I am not going to go back and look at every segment with The Authority to determine whether they came off as faces or heels in that segment. Just know that they have been teasing friction within the group almost since it started and Triple H and Stephanie do sometimes come off as faces in certain segments, even though they are supposed to be heels.

Last week, you had Triple H acting all mad about Sting coming back. When The Authority made the match between Sting and Seth Rollins, they were obviously in heel mode. This week, you had Stephanie McMahon not happy about how Seth Rollins was talking about her husband. When John Cena left it to Stephanie to decide, she made the match between Seth Rollins and Cena official. That was a decision Seth did not like. Stephanie made a face decision right there. Is this stable on the same page?

Is part of the problem that there are no face authority figures to make decisions and counter the heel authority figures? I do not think that is necessary. There can be times where a face authority figure makes an unpopular decision or a heel authority figure makes a decision fans like. But I do not remember authority figures being as inconsistent as Triple H and Stephanie McMahon have been since taking over. And the whole "best for business" thing is no excuse. There were times in the past where they would do things that were obviously meant to screw a face and use the "best for business" excuse. Everyone knew they were being hypocrites. And if they stuck in that direction, it would be fine. Instead, they go all over the place and it is just annoying. If they were pure faces, they would probably just bore me. If they were just pure heels, I would probably enjoy them. But the way they are now, it just irritates me. I cannot get behind them. I do not even know what to make of them.