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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Nov 6, 2014 7:34:31 GMT -5
Mediocrity is a compliment for Morrison. He was utterly terrible. Why anyone ever liked this guy is beyond me. I enjoyed him at the time, I liked his play on Jim Morrison in ECW, when that ended I enjoyed his goofy tag team with The Miz, and when he ended up on Raw/Smackdown again he had a few nice flashy moves. But looking back, outside of the Miz/Morrison match which ended in an amazing table spot outside the ring, the Morrison/Sheamus ladder match, the CM Punk/Miz/Morrison ECW title match, and the Miz/Moz vs Brothers of Destruction match (man, Miz gelled with him), I...don't know. On rewatching any but the matches listed I'm not interested. In fact he and Shelton Benjamin had one of THE worst matches in recent history on PPV. Awful spot-fest with no logic, no point, no value, no psychology. Why the hell did they remove his interesting/silly Jim Morrison stream of thought promos? It pretty much ruined Morrison in kayfabe, both in terms of him being unconfident on the mic and the WWE seemingly cutting any reason for him to ever feud with anyone. To be honest though he didn't drop the ball, he got shoved in an aimless midcard, had his gimmick cut down, fans stopped responding when he stopped getting booked in any angles, and he was used to put Miz over a ton. Which I agreed with, and still do, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't have worked harder to make Morrison interesting in kayfabe. Morrison is a good enough wrestler but fans stop caring when they keep taking away everything character wise away that made him stand out. They guy was very good with the Miz and in ECW. Once he turned faced he was just the parcor guy that says poorly written insults.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Nov 6, 2014 11:09:10 GMT -5
Mediocrity is a compliment for Morrison. He was utterly terrible. Why anyone ever liked this guy is beyond me. I enjoyed him at the time, I liked his play on Jim Morrison in ECW, when that ended I enjoyed his goofy tag team with The Miz, and when he ended up on Raw/Smackdown again he had a few nice flashy moves. But looking back, outside of the Miz/Morrison match which ended in an amazing table spot outside the ring, the Morrison/Sheamus ladder match, the CM Punk/Miz/Morrison ECW title match, and the Miz/Moz vs Brothers of Destruction match (man, Miz gelled with him), I...don't know. On rewatching any but the matches listed I'm not interested. In fact he and Shelton Benjamin had one of THE worst matches in recent history on PPV. Awful spot-fest with no logic, no point, no value, no psychology. Why the hell did they remove his interesting/silly Jim Morrison stream of thought promos? It pretty much ruined Morrison in kayfabe, both in terms of him being unconfident on the mic and the WWE seemingly cutting any reason for him to ever feud with anyone. To be honest though he didn't drop the ball, he got shoved in an aimless midcard, had his gimmick cut down, fans stopped responding when he stopped getting booked in any angles, and he was used to put Miz over a ton. Which I agreed with, and still do, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't have worked harder to make Morrison interesting in kayfabe. They probably got rid of them because they were too hard to write and they didn't trust him to come up with his own, so they gave him the same style as everyone else. Back to the topic, I'd say Jeff Hardy. The early 2000s there was serious talk of him as the next Shawn Michaels. He always had that "It factor" to an insane degree. He could have won the WWE title a good 5 years before he did and been a main event player. There were a few chances, his ladder match with the Undertaker, the feud with RVD which was a highlight of the early Invasion, even a feud with HBK himself. Then he got fired for drugs. When he finally came back in 2006, he had a natural rivalry that could have been exploited with Edge, but they couldn't trust him with it so he wandered around with his brother looking after him for a while. Finally a main event player going into 2009, that year he has an amazing feud with Punk, his contract expires so he can heal up, he could walk back into a top position any time he wanted... Then gets busted for drugs. It cost him goodwill from about everyone outside diehard Hardy fans.
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