"Austin 3:16" moments... that were ignored

[Beartato]

Nov 24, 2011 14:55:26 GMT -5 VengeanceGOD said:

Cody, thankfully, has overcome this, but he had a potentially huge moment where the crowd was BEGGING him to kill Orton, and they did nothing with it, even dubbing over his chants.

Even though that was an amazing opportunity, I'm glad it went nowhere. The dashing character might not have been born and if they would've went the Alex Riley route and just had him attack Orton, he might've suffered the same fate as, well, Alex Riley.

We would've been the same bland face he came in as except more people would care about him, but only for a short while like Riley.

Cody's 3:16 moment I feel was the original dashing promo, where he showed so much personality I was amazed at what I was hearing.

[femmejomo]

Nov 24, 2011 8:32:53 GMT -5 Cam said:

WWE does it all the time. Half of the midcarders in WWE at the moment have had major title wins/feuds/matches and then de-pushed completely afterwards. And pretty much all of them had a chance to be big stars:

Alex Riley (got a big win over Miz, was over as hell....then dropped off the face of the Earth)

Daniel Bryan (won MITB and has done nothing until now)

Dolph Ziggler (won the world title this year, only to do absolutely nothing when his storyline with Edge ended and he got "fired" from SmackDown)

Drew McIntyre (won the IC title, touted as the future of WWE - now he's losing almost every match on Superstars (!) and can't get on Raw or SD to save his life)

Jack Swagger (won MITB out of nowhere, won the world title, then lost it after 3 months and proceeded to do nothing until WM)

John Morrison (where do we start....over as hell, gets to the final of KOTR, wins No.1 Contender match at TLC, loses in a great match to Miz, impressive Rumble showing, impressive EC performance....then WM27 comes and I think we know the rest of the story)

Wade Barrett (Gets major heat as the leader of Nexus, then he gets replaced by Punk and pretty much does nothing for the next 8 months except winning the IC title which he loses to Ezekiel)

And of course the aforementioned Kofi Kingston. WWE does it all the time. Pretty much all the guys I listed above could be main eventers right now if WWE hadn't decided to do nothing with them.

Looking at this list is depressing. There is so much talent here, so many potential main-event guys, so many opportunities - and WWE wasted them. I feel bad for these talents and a little disgusted at the WWE. I don't feel bad for them when they worry they don't have "stars" or more main-eventers - they created that problem themselves.

Could you imagine if WCW was still around? I bet all these guys would go there or at least consider it as a option - and at least get some kind of push. I miss competition among wrestling companies. I wonder if a mass talent exodus would help TNA become more of a competitor?

[The Tee Why]

I really feel the only "Austin 3:16" moment here, is Punks initial promo. It changed the way he is now, hes over as **** now because of it basically. No offense to the other guys, but none of those are on the same scale, where it completely takes them from "meh" to "holy **** this guy is for real"