So what was the point of Show squashing Slater?

[Ryback on a Pole!]

What exactly did it accomplish other than making Heath look like a joke?

We all know Show is a dominant badass, the WWE didn't need him to destroy Heath Slater to prove that.

Was such a pointless match. If The Corre were going to beat down Big Show then they should have all jumped him immediatly instead of having the pointless burial of Heath Slater.

Annoys me because I like The Corre because they are all equals. That doesn't really work if you've got 3 guys who can hang with main eventers and 1 guy who loses in under a minute. . .

I'm really, really bored of Big Show lately.

[Bake Or Die]

Well from what I've seen The Big Show dominates all of The Corre members not named Ezekiel Jackson

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

Because that's what Big Show does. It seems like they just love to feed every promising heel (Swagger, Punk, Gallows, Vance Archer and Curt Hawkins) to him for no reason. I mean I could see if they had plans to give him some huge main event push but nothing ever comes of it which just makes him squashing everybody pointless and incredibly frustrtating.

I wasn't as upset about it this time as I've never really been that impressed with Slater and he's definitly the low man on the totem pole in the Corre. It seems like they're building to a Show/Jackson match and I'm thinking that they were just giving Show a strong win to build him up so Jackson looks real strong when he beats him. Now if they just have Show go over again, which wouldn't suprise me, then the whole feud will just be a pointless waste of time as Show will just continue to do nothing while the Corre will pretty much be done for.

[Beartato]

They like to take promising superstars involved in storylines and have the Big Show squash them, kill their momentum, and continue to not be in any storylines.

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the Big Show is 7 ft tall and close to 500 lbs, would you want half the roster to go over him clean every week?

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faith?

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I seem to recall Heath Slater being the only one who take it upon himself to jump in the ring when Show made the challenge. (C'mon, you were expecting one of the other guys? Seriously?)

Justin Gabriel is the high-flyer with a reputation for having a dangerous-looking 450 Splash and some mystery to him. (Check out his eyes; there lies the look of a silent assassin.)
Wade Barrett is the ousted Nexus leader and voice of the group.
Ezekiel Jackson is the big, reckless hoss that plows through anybody he wishes.

Heath Slater is...just kinda there, taking up space. He's goofy-looking, he looks like an 11 year-old hanging out with his older brother and his friends because "he has to babysit him". (Name me one thing Heath Slater has done besides getting called the "Wendy's chick"? And, I'm sorry, but holding the tag-titles doesn't count in 2011.)

For a kayfabe stand-point, Slater needed to do this. He needed to take it upon himself to show the rest of the WWE Universe he really belongs in the Corre.

I look at this as a guy who needed to build some sort of reputation for himself. He's not afraid to take on the Big Show, he's being built up as something. There's no shame in losing to a guy twice your size. Don't start screaming "BURIAL!" just because a 200 pound guy gets flattened by a 450 pound giant of a man. That's not logical.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Jan 29, 2011 13:41:44 GMT -5 @akeem said:

the Big Show is 7 ft tall and close to 500 lbs, would you want half the roster to go over him clean every week?

I never said anything about going over him clean, just that squashing Heath like that was pointless.

A 1 minute squash didn't make Show look any tougher because he's already established as a badass and all it did was make Heath look like the weak link of The Corre.

I wouldn't have had a problem with Show winning if the match had at least been competitive and had Slater leaving with a bit of dignity.

Slater doesn't stand out at all and needs to establish himself. Going into the ring and lasting a good 6 minutes+ with Show and refusing to give in would have gone some way to establish him as a pretty tough guy.

[potpie]

I think they did it because WWE is prejudiced against Gingers. That's right- I went there.

[BigJerichool222]

Jan 29, 2011 13:50:21 GMT -5 @sandman said:

(Name me one thing Heath Slater has done besides getting called the "Wendy's chick"? And, I'm sorry, but holding the tag-titles doesn't count in 2011.)

-Pinned Edge and Jericho in less than 40 seconds at SummerSlam.
-Pinned the WWE CHAMPION in an elimination match on Raw.

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Because the crowd popped for it. It didn't hurt Slater because he's tiny and booked extremely weakly anyway, and there's no shame in getting destroyed by Big Show. I think WWE, and Heath Slater, will recover just fine from this.

[Stu]

Thing is, as you probably recall, there was a lot of backlash from the NWO always dominating and remaining on top. Personally, I've been getting tired of all the Nexus/Corre beatdowns. So I didn't really mind Big Show destroying Slater. It was nice to see Barrett and company lose for once.

Beside, it was only a random episode of Smackdown that people will probably forget by next week.

[Massive G]

it was to remind us all that the Big Show is in fact a large person who can easily beat up smaller persons. And yeah, it was pretty pointless.

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Jan 29, 2011 13:58:19 GMT -5 BigJerichool222 said:

Jan 29, 2011 13:50:21 GMT -5 @sandman said:

(Name me one thing Heath Slater has done besides getting called the "Wendy's chick"? And, I'm sorry, but holding the tag-titles doesn't count in 2011.)

-Pinned Edge and Jericho in less than 40 seconds at SummerSlam.
-Pinned the WWE CHAMPION in an elimination match on Raw.

I said one thing, not two. No need to be a wise-guy.

Look at the Corre like the Fabulous Freebirds. Terry Gordy was the brawny bruiser. Michael Hayes was the flash and sizzle. Buddy Roberts worked hard, but was looked at as the inferior one of the group. (Almost every wrestling stable in history has had that one guy who is obviously "the low man". Please note I said "almost", not "every". It just makes a stable that much more enjoyable. If you can't beat anybody in the group, that would be boring. The stable always has to have some sort of weakness, or else you can't compete with them and the whole thing is useless.)

If you feuded with the Freebirds, you got Buddy Roberts first. You beat Roberts, THEN you moved up to Gordy. You didn't get Michael Hayes unless you could decisively get past the big man, because it would take you a few tries to beat Terry Gordy. Hayes would interfere because he didn't want to face that guy. Roberts would interfere. And so on. You didn't beat Gordy until you got him one-on-one in a cage or specialty match. Get past Gordy, THEN you get to the leader.

You throw Big Show against Ezekiel Jackson or Wade Barrett right away on free TV, why even have the need for PPV? If you're going to put your money matches for free, might as well just burn a barrel full of money on stage.

[Bang Bang Bart]

This is fine, just don't turn it into "Show making Corre his bitch" like what the SES/Show feud turned into. Besides, we can't have one guy/group getting the one-up all the time, because that just gets irritating. (See: HBK/McMahons feud in 2006, DX/McMahons feud for most of Summer 2006)

[MrBRulzOK]

Jan 29, 2011 13:58:19 GMT -5 BigJerichool222 said:

Jan 29, 2011 13:50:21 GMT -5 @sandman said:

(Name me one thing Heath Slater has done besides getting called the "Wendy's chick"? And, I'm sorry, but holding the tag-titles doesn't count in 2011.)

-Pinned Edge and Jericho in less than 40 seconds at SummerSlam.
-Pinned the WWE CHAMPION in an elimination match on Raw.

And to think that's meant absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. Yet more proof that wins and losses simply don't matter these days.

[BigJerichool222]

Jan 29, 2011 17:08:34 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

Jan 29, 2011 13:58:19 GMT -5 BigJerichool222 said:

-Pinned Edge and Jericho in less than 40 seconds at SummerSlam.
-Pinned the WWE CHAMPION in an elimination match on Raw.

And to think that's meant absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. Yet more proof that wins and losses simply don't matter these days.

Why should it? In order to be a star, you have to be able to wheel an Eagle around the ring.

[Red Impact]

A cocky new wrestler probably should get squashed when going up against a veteran giant without any weapons or backup. Ultimately, Slater can easily recover because he's newer and, really, I don't think anyone really suffers from getting squashed by a giant unless they're holding the title anymore.

[potpie]

Jan 29, 2011 14:13:52 GMT -5 @sandman said:

Jan 29, 2011 13:58:19 GMT -5 BigJerichool222 said:

-Pinned Edge and Jericho in less than 40 seconds at SummerSlam.
-Pinned the WWE CHAMPION in an elimination match on Raw.

I said one thing, not two. No need to be a wise-guy.

Look at the Corre like the Fabulous Freebirds. Terry Gordy was the brawny bruiser. Michael Hayes was the flash and sizzle. Buddy Roberts worked hard, but was looked at as the inferior one of the group. (Almost every wrestling stable in history has had that one guy who is obviously "the low man". Please note I said "almost", not "every". It just makes a stable that much more enjoyable. If you can't beat anybody in the group, that would be boring. The stable always has to have some sort of weakness, or else you can't compete with them and the whole thing is useless.)

If you feuded with the Freebirds, you got Buddy Roberts first. You beat Roberts, THEN you moved up to Gordy. You didn't get Michael Hayes unless you could decisively get past the big man, because it would take you a few tries to beat Terry Gordy. Hayes would interfere because he didn't want to face that guy. Roberts would interfere. And so on. You didn't beat Gordy until you got him one-on-one in a cage or specialty match. Get past Gordy, THEN you get to the leader.

You throw Big Show against Ezekiel Jackson or Wade Barrett right away on free TV, why even have the need for PPV? If you're going to put your money matches for free, might as well just burn a barrel full of money on stagebe TNA.

Fixed for ya ;D

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Jan 29, 2011 13:50:41 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

Jan 29, 2011 13:41:44 GMT -5 @akeem said:

the Big Show is 7 ft tall and close to 500 lbs, would you want half the roster to go over him clean every week?

I never said anything about going over him clean, just that squashing Heath like that was pointless.

A 1 minute squash didn't make Show look any tougher because he's already established as a badass and all it did was make Heath look like the weak link of The Corre.

I wouldn't have had a problem with Show winning if the match had at least been competitive and had Slater leaving with a bit of dignity.

Slater doesn't stand out at all and needs to establish himself. Going into the ring and lasting a good 6 minutes+ with Show and refusing to give in would have gone some way to establish him as a pretty tough guy.

Still, the Big Show is the largest guy in the E he should dominate most guys. There's no shame in losing to him, regardless of how much of a fight his opponent puts up. If Heath was squashed by Santino or something, I could see the merits of the argument but it's the Big Show.