kidglov3s
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Wants her Shot
Who is Tiger Maskooo?
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Post by kidglov3s on Jan 31, 2010 23:04:49 GMT -5
I love Sheamus, he's the only contemporary talent I care for in the slightest, and I'm happy that his introduction coincided with Bret's return so I happened to see it. I love his look, I love how he presents his character, I love his style on the mic, and I love his work in the ring. They need to spend more time with him, let him be the central figure that his title demands he should be, and give him a little more space to look menacing. Or they can just drop him off, which I actually wouldn't mind because I really don't care for any of the stuff I have to wade through to see him and be teased about Bret.
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Celgress
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Superior One
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Post by Celgress on Jan 31, 2010 23:06:10 GMT -5
It is doing nothing for me, nothing.
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Post by jumpingbombangel on Jan 31, 2010 23:11:27 GMT -5
I enjoy this title run, but I'm a Sheamus mark. I would enjoy it a lot better if he could get actual pinfalls in his wins...
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wrasslinmachine
Don Corleone
Savagely protecting the innocent since 1987.
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Post by wrasslinmachine on Jan 31, 2010 23:11:51 GMT -5
After tonight it done very little to change my mind on the guy. Someone please have the good sense to take the belt off him.
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Post by The Verdict on Jan 31, 2010 23:15:57 GMT -5
The guy is bland in every area besides his look. He has done nothing interesting enough to change the mind of his detractors to prove himself worthy of a main event push and until he does that I couldn't care less about him...
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 31, 2010 23:19:02 GMT -5
Truth be told Sheamus looked bad tonight. I don't mean in his match, I mean on a night featuring a great bout between Mysterio/Taker, Punk making the Rumble match his own, Orton getting babyface pops, Michael's interesting run in the Rumble, and Edge returning and winning it all... well Sheamus in terms of star power and interest really didn't look like he measured up.
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Post by Kevin's Thorn on Jan 31, 2010 23:37:50 GMT -5
I think he'd be better if he had JBL's gimmick, aka the cowardly heel who somehow always manages to win despite the odds. Right now they're playing it like Sheamus is a legitimate threat, but his results in matches when he basically lucks his way through them all don't say that at all. He'll never get over like that.
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Post by Rorschach on Jan 31, 2010 23:39:03 GMT -5
A great many salient points have been made in this thread, and I agree with several of them.
*They put the title on him far too fast: This is definitely one souffle' that needed a few more hours in the oven, in my mind. Sheamus HAD the ability to be something HUGE....but it's like as if WCW would have put the World Title on Goldberg after Goldberg only beat Brad Armstrong and Scott Norton. No one would have cared, no one would have thought Goldberg deserved to face Horace Hogan, let alone Hulk Hogan. The WWE is a HORRID student of history.
*They haven't had him destroy ANYONE of note since he became champion, despite being billed as a "destroyer" of a man. Again, think of what Goldberg would have been viewed as if HE would have been booked like this. He wins the title, and then proceeds to not pin ONE challenger the entire time he holds the belt, instead taking the Honky Tonk Man route to title defense. He would have been just as much of a joke as Sheamus is now.
*They're not promoting him as a Champion should be promoted: He's not the marquee part of the show, as Cena, Orton, and HHH were before him. He's more of an afterthought than anything else. In this area, WWE has sucessfully mimicked the WCW booking of Goldberg post title win. Keep your new, young and exciting champion out of sight, out of mind, while the older talent (in WCW it was Hall, Nash and Hogan, here it's HHH, HBK, and Cena) eat up the entire run time of the show, and the champ MAYBE comes out at the end of the show, once in a while. You think HHH would have EVER had a title reign like the one Sheamus is getting now? What purpose does it serve to so clearly illustrate that your new champion is not on the level of those supposedly chasing him? Especially when that champion is supposed to be a monster?
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Post by KingPopper on Jan 31, 2010 23:43:14 GMT -5
It doesnt help if he's some kind of monster yet is the same size as Orton...
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jan 31, 2010 23:43:19 GMT -5
WWE is just terrified to put him over any of their main event talent...even though they gave him the main event belt. It hurts my head. Me too. Would it hurt that much to give Sheamus a pinfall victory over Cena? Have an Orton run-in if you want, anything, just as long as Sheamus actually pins the guy he won the title from. It's nearly two months since he won the belt and he still hasn't beaten anyone significant. It appears that's Sheamus is in that same level midway between the midcard and the mainevent that CM Punk and Jericho are in where you can get a world title now and then but you aren't allowed to beat any of the proper main eventers. And as far as breaking through the glass ceiling goes, it seems that's the best you can get in the WWE these days. Just ask Kofi Kingston.
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Post by Rorschach on Jan 31, 2010 23:45:56 GMT -5
WWE is just terrified to put him over any of their main event talent...even though they gave him the main event belt. It hurts my head. Me too. Would it hurt that much to give Sheamus a pinfall victory over Cena? Have an Orton run-in if you want, anything, just as long as Sheamus actually pins the guy he won the title from. It's nearly two months since he won the belt and he still hasn't beaten anyone significant. It appears that's Sheamus is in that same level midway between the midcard and the mainevent that CM Punk and Jericho are in where you can get a world title now and then but you aren't allowed to beat any of the proper main eventers. Which, with what has happened to the company in the past few years, is KIND OF understandable, at least with the younger guys. But in that case, they should have WAITED to put the big belt on Sheamus. A Jericho run in Sheamus' place would have been just as good, IMO.
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Jan 31, 2010 23:48:52 GMT -5
Well, they've obviously put the cart before the horse. If Sheamus was pushed like this, without the title, it would work a lot better and perhaps wouldn't set him up for so much hate.
As I said, I'm a Sheamus fan, so I can't help but enjoy and wish for his reign to continue. At the same point, I still have enough critical faculties to know that if you're going to rocket someone up the card like this, that this is not the way to do it.
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Post by FailedGimmick on Jan 31, 2010 23:57:59 GMT -5
It reminds me of Big Show's first reign. It sort of just happened, as the real story was elsewhere.
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Jan 31, 2010 23:59:52 GMT -5
If it's like anyone's reign... I'd say it was like Chris Benoit's, without the smark happiness at first.
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Chainsaw
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A very BAD man.
It is what it is
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 1, 2010 0:00:06 GMT -5
I'm still liking Sheamus. His kicking in Orton's head was great.
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Lancers
El Dandy
Oh you
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Post by Lancers on Feb 1, 2010 0:06:53 GMT -5
Judging by the few times I've seen him, he seems about as bland as vanilla ice cream with the skin tone of vanilla ice cream. He has about as much charisma as PBS programming on Nyquil. He never seems to be involved in the main storyline either. And this is the guy holding what I'm led to believe is the most important title the WWE has? It really doesn't make a lick of sense, but I'm not a booker. I'm just a guy with an internet connection and a bottle of Nyquil.
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Post by jobsquad on Feb 1, 2010 0:49:23 GMT -5
It's awful booking. They shot him up because he is friends with HHH just like how they shot up Randy Orton and Batista before either of them were ready although at least they built them both up a little first. Thank you. I tried explaining to a good buddy how they ruined Batista's overall potential by pushing him too soon. Sheamus is screwed from a marketability standpoint if they job him at Wrestlemania. He needs a clean win against someone like triple h to be pushed over that hump.
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Big L
Grimlock
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Post by Big L on Feb 1, 2010 1:45:39 GMT -5
Nope! Sure hasn't
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Post by boomhauer20055 on Feb 1, 2010 1:49:40 GMT -5
Its a much needed fresh face in the main event scene
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hbkjoec
Trap-Jaw
DIESEL POWER!!!
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Post by hbkjoec on Feb 1, 2010 2:44:02 GMT -5
I think it's a huge joke, in all honesty. He was booked as this huge Irish monster and now he doesn't get to beat anybody that isn't Evan Bourne.
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