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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 10, 2013 23:22:26 GMT -5
The WWE Championship scene is, of course, John Cena's playground and the de facto main event.
The Tag Team and US Championships are now held by and built around the Shield, a faction being treated like a huge deal who've beaten their way through everyone. Their current challengers are two major veteran main event guys and Daniel Bryan, the later of whom is receiving some of the biggest pops in the company and who is getting built into a major singles star.
The new challenger for the IC Championship is Curtis Axel, managed by Paul Heyman, whose other two clients have been the heels in some of the biggest angles of the last year, and Axel has spent the last month getting big TV main events against Triple H and John Cena.
...and then there's the World Heavyweight Championship, which is del Rio vs. Ziggler, two guys who are basically off in their own little world not interacting with anyone else, neither of whom has much kayfabe credibility beyond "can consistently beat Kofi Kingston".
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Post by Sparkybob on Jun 10, 2013 23:24:19 GMT -5
Well it's all swaggy fault.
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Post by Cronant on Jun 10, 2013 23:24:51 GMT -5
Smackdown has been the HellNo/Shield show for a while, too.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jun 10, 2013 23:25:04 GMT -5
In defense of WWE booking:
Their World Heavyweight Champion had a very serious concussion a few weeks ago. They haven't been able to feature him lately.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 10, 2013 23:27:53 GMT -5
In defense of WWE booking: Their World Heavyweight Champion had a very serious concussion a few weeks ago. They haven't been able to feature him lately. This. Thou they should do an interm championship program so they can move the WHC story (unless Ziggler is ready to wrestle at Payback)
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Post by Cronant on Jun 10, 2013 23:30:38 GMT -5
Even with Dolph injured, having ADR look a little more important as the number 1 contender would have helped a bit.
Wrestling Big E in 5 minute matches at 9:30 every week does nothing for it. There's no reason he couldn't have main evented a Smackdown against a Shield member with the usual DQ ending or something.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 10, 2013 23:34:17 GMT -5
The WHC has felt less important for months now. At this point I feel they should've just quietly retired it, acknowledged Ziggler as "the final World Heavyweight Champion" and had him return without the title and inserted him in either the WWE or IC title picture.
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Post by BigWill on Jun 10, 2013 23:50:30 GMT -5
Even with Dolph injured, having ADR look a little more important as the number 1 contender would have helped a bit. Wrestling Big E in 5 minute matches at 9:30 every week does nothing for it. There's no reason he couldn't have main evented a Smackdown against a Shield member with the usual DQ ending or something. That's true. But my thinking is that the WWE didn't want to change up their show plans any more than they had to, because of Ziggler's concussion. So they just kept Del Rio busy with Big E, who likely wasn't going to be doing much anyway.
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Post by mrjl on Jun 11, 2013 7:06:25 GMT -5
Even with Dolph injured, having ADR look a little more important as the number 1 contender would have helped a bit. Wrestling Big E in 5 minute matches at 9:30 every week does nothing for it. There's no reason he couldn't have main evented a Smackdown against a Shield member with the usual DQ ending or something. I'm sorry but these matches felt like the equivalent of Razor Ramon's feud with Diesel while he was also feuding with Diesel's boss Shawn Michaels to me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 8:22:52 GMT -5
Hasn't this been the case for years, now?
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Post by Cronant on Jun 11, 2013 8:30:36 GMT -5
Hasn't this been the case for years, now? Its not been this bad. Obviously lower than the WWE title, but still ahead of the others. Thats the way it was during Sheamus' reign.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jun 11, 2013 9:10:03 GMT -5
Ziggler's title run is already a fiasco. I don't see why they didn't just strip him of the belt due to injury and go with Del Rio vs. Orton, Sheamus, whoever. I wish the Shield had a true main event guy in the group. He'd be an ideal WHC for SD.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 11, 2013 10:37:45 GMT -5
I think the problem with the WHC is WWE's approach towards building stars. They have their bigger names, but won't allow anyone to go over them. We want WWE to "give other guys a chance" and we're tired of guys like Orton and Sheamus in the title picture. The thing is, that rather than prove that Del Rio, Ziggler, or Swagger to be on par with them and book them on their level, they've just isolated the bigger names away from the belt, so as to avoid a scenario where one of these bigger names has to either lose, or decisively go over the rising talent. And thus without their presence, the belt feels less important.
The rise of the Shield who have managed to be the biggest act on the show, even while holding the lowest belts on the totem pole, and the use of "name talents" like Miz and Wade Barrett in the IC Title scene (at least WWE pretends they're big stars) renders the WHC redundant. The World Title is practically dead at this point.
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Post by trollrogue on Jun 11, 2013 10:58:55 GMT -5
Ziggler's title run is already a fiasco.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 11:13:31 GMT -5
It's not less important than the tag titles.
Yesterday when Reigns and Rollins were in the ring, before Reigns went against Orton...Reigns briefly held up the tag belt and it made him look less credible than if he had just raised his arm without having a championship belt.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jun 11, 2013 11:50:27 GMT -5
In defense of WWE booking: Their World Heavyweight Champion had a very serious concussion a few weeks ago. They haven't been able to feature him lately. In ring, I can understand. However, did he really need to spend a good month off television? There are ways to push a feud without having a match. Where was the trash talking or the face-to-face business?
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Post by mrjl on Jun 11, 2013 12:03:21 GMT -5
It's not less important than the tag titles. Yesterday when Reigns and Rollins were in the ring, before Reigns went against Orton...Reigns briefly held up the tag belt and it made him look less credible than if he had just raised his arm without having a championship belt. one man's opinion
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Post by DSR on Jun 11, 2013 12:08:46 GMT -5
In defense of WWE booking: Their World Heavyweight Champion had a very serious concussion a few weeks ago. They haven't been able to feature him lately. In ring, I can understand. However, did he really need to spend a good month off television? There are ways to push a feud without having a match. Where was the trash talking or the face-to-face business? Ziggler hasn't even been completely gone. He was talking up a storm on THE APP! THE APP! THE APP! a couple of weeks ago. How hard would it be to pre-tape an interview and air it on Raw? Even if it's picture in picture during Del Rio's match or whatever.
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Post by mrjl on Jun 11, 2013 12:15:42 GMT -5
In defense of WWE booking: Their World Heavyweight Champion had a very serious concussion a few weeks ago. They haven't been able to feature him lately. In ring, I can understand. However, did he really need to spend a good month off television? There are ways to push a feud without having a match. Where was the trash talking or the face-to-face business? face to face wasn't possible because part of the time Ziggler wasn't even cleared to travel
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 15:02:08 GMT -5
Divas title > WHC. Not joking at all.
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