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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Mar 12, 2013 0:33:41 GMT -5
I don't understand why they did this feud for Wrestlemania. We have 4 weeks left, and I feel like next Sunday should be the blow-off match. But next Sunday isn't the PPV...not even close. And there's a likelihood of them extending the feud to Extreme Rules. Hopefully that involves Zigz.
Zeb is great at what he does. He's perfect, absolutely perfect, for this role. But I just don't feel it. Del Rio's horrendous parody of Zeb/Jack isn't helping matters, nor is Del Rio's "HEY COMPADRES I JUST REMEMBERED I AM MEXICAN. CHEER!" shtick. I'm glad he's face, and his matches are much more interesting now, but it's just not the kind of guy I really want to root for.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Mar 12, 2013 2:33:03 GMT -5
Don't care about Swagger much at all, the whole thing makes me more uncomfortable than anything, but I am a little intrigued if they start making this "brutalizing Mexicans" a weekly thing leading up to Mania... and drag in either Memo or... say, El Local.
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Post by Sparkybob on Mar 12, 2013 9:01:01 GMT -5
I think they really need to move to the next step of this feud. They already drilled in our heads repeately about how Zeb hates immigrants who took our jobs etc, so they need to evolved this feud and make it more personally. I mean while I love Zeb, Raw's promo was kinda boring since other than some shots at Cara, it was basically the same rhetoric that he has been preaching the last 3 weeks. Without delving into to much politics... Zeb really needs to exaggerate his beliefs similar to what Punk did during his SES run. Even if people agree with your viewpoint like some do with Zeb, you need to do it in such an obnoxious way that even those people will hate you.
While the WWE still has time to do all of this, there is also a chance that this feud can stay this course and just remaining boring and uninteresting.
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Post by babyfootball on Mar 12, 2013 10:29:50 GMT -5
First of all, the feud is for a meaningless belt. Notice how so many of the feuds/beltholders of the WHC are so poorly received and have such little heat? It can't be that all of the champions/contenders for that belt stink. Del Rio shows flashes of really succeeding as a face. Zeb is doing a great job. Swagger still hasn't really found his niche yet but he's not doing anything wrong or stinking it up in the ring. Ziggler holding MITB means nothing since he's been booked to look like such a chump.
That belt is a world championship in name only and is booked with about as much long-term planning as any other belt. This angle is just spinning its wheels and we've still got several weeks to go. They've had a couple of opportunities to take it to the next level but maybe the amount of mainstream attention they got there had the opposite affect. Plus Swagger's arrest helped in the short term but certainly could have negative long term affects. If they wanted to go with a "controversial (read: offensive)" angle, they'd have to go all the way with it. So far it's just kind of treading middle ground, and it's really sputtered for the last 2 weeks or so.
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Post by HBL on Mar 13, 2013 15:41:15 GMT -5
Without the mainstream controversy this feud was obviously supposed to run off, it comes across very mid-cardy. Then again Swagger's not even in the feud properly. It's Zeb vs Del Rio with Swagger acting as muscle for Zeb. They've really done a bad job of making Swagger seem like a legit threat. All of this.
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Post by trollrogue on Mar 14, 2013 7:23:17 GMT -5
I'm hoping Vince is planning to swerve us all, have Ziggler cash in and win the title. Have Cena get a title shot and win before the Mania match, then put all the former WHC contenders in the MitB Ladder Match for a new briefcase (the same one Dolph used-- but this time for the Undisputed title that would be formed from the Rock/Cena match).
Also could do a promo where Cena unveils his new version of the WHC-- and says that once he unifies the titles the Championship is heah (i.e. he's gonna erase Rocky's gaudy WWE belt from existence. Major heat on that stale IMHO Cena/Rocky feud, and a chance for Ziggler to get another 365 days as Mr. MitB!)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 9:11:29 GMT -5
*shrugs* I like this angle so far.
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Post by mrjl on Mar 14, 2013 16:49:38 GMT -5
Without the mainstream controversy this feud was obviously supposed to run off, it comes across very mid-cardy. Then again Swagger's not even in the feud properly. It's Zeb vs Del Rio with Swagger acting as muscle for Zeb. They've really done a bad job of making Swagger seem like a legit threat. Even if that's true, why should you exclude the mainstream controversy? It doesn't have to be talked about by the media or anything, because the fact is it's based off an issue that matters in the mainstream. And why not look at Zeb as a mouthpiece for Swagger instead of the other way around
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