Rate Your Interest Level In WWE Right Now?

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WWE Champion - Sheamus
Intercontinental Champion - Kevin Owens
United States Champion - Alberto Del Rio
Tag Team Champions - New Day
Diva's Champion - Charlotte

Well, it seems like this is one of the weakest crops of champions in recent memory.

This is typically going to be the dead season, between now and Royal Rumble since everything in between has the holidays and the booking doesn't really matter then.

So how would you describe your interest in the product right now?

[Hit Girl]

3

And that's entirely because of 1- Big E, 2- Xavier and 3- Kofi

[Mozenrath]

I'm going to be generous and give them a 7. It'd be 6, but I have some amount of sympathy due to all of the injuries, as well as the whole potential Daesh threat thing. It's been a shitty time for them. That said, I still at least feel like the briefcase is out of the way, finally, so that band-aid's pulled clean.

[Starshine]

I would vote... but I can't be bothered.

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

1.

Didn't bother watching Survivor Series last night. I probably won't tune back in until the Royal Rumble, depending on how that looks at the time.

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I'll go with 2. I'll probably still watch on and off, but there really isn't anyone on the roster I'm all that captivated by (even, say, New Day can only go so far and are spinning their wheels as much as anyone) and I can't see much chance for some big shake-up to happen any time soon. I will grant the past month, last night aside's, largely been better than it had been for a long while before, but with the tournament and stuff out of the way I have the feeling the quality's about to drop again.

[ilggant]

I give it a 7.

It's not a weak crop of champions by any stretch of the imagination.

Charlotte is awesome and is booked as such. Yes she debuted only a few months ago, but there never really has been a pecking order in the divas' division, so it's good to finally have a champion there who can actually go.

New Day are the most awesome tag champs we've had in a long long LONG time. No argument there.

Alberto Del Rio, while not the most exciting of talents, is a former world champion and is treated and booked as such. It's good to have the midcard strap on someone with credibility, which is why I was happy both midcard champions made it to the World Title tournament semifinals.

Kevin Owens is an extraordinary talent with a great character to boot. He hasn't been around for long, yet he's been in the business for a while, and seems to have a bright future ahead.

Sheamus...well...yeah. However keep in mind they HAD to do something with the MITB winner. Yeah I completely disagree with what happened at Survivor Series (would have rather had Reigns become corporate champion by screwing over Ambrose), but since they desperately want people to cheer Reigns, who better as a foe than someone the fans will hate more? Besides, while not being the best choice for champion by a country mile, Sheamus is not that bad, and only happened to stumble across the title at this moment because everyone and their mother is injured.

[radiantsilvergun]

Probably like a 7 after last night. Everythings so sterile right now. After Raw tomorrow I'm hopefully gonna take a break for a bit. Only other time I took a break from WWE was when I only had access to Raw back in 2009. The product is closely reaching that 2009 Raw level of booty juice, word to New Day.


Takeover next month will be pretty awesome though, so there's that. The next set of NXT tapings don't look to be too hot though. Thankfully ROH and NJPW has some good shit in store for us the next 2 months.

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Nov 23, 2015 7:03:16 GMT -5 ilggant said:

Alberto Del Rio, while not the most exciting of talents, is a former world champion and is treated and booked as such. It's good to have the midcard strap on someone with credibility, which is why I was happy both midcard champions made it to the World Title tournament semifinals.

Is this even really worth remarking on? The five previous title runs before his were two from Cena, Rollins, Rusev, and Sheamus, all very credible in their own right and, to varying degrees, a lot better at getting crowd investment in their work. Alberto on the other hand feels like he's already completely killed everything the belt had going for it and just made it a useless prop just bolstering his stupid, unexplained Mexamerica thing.

[ilggant]

Nov 23, 2015 7:18:27 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Nov 23, 2015 7:03:16 GMT -5 ilggant said:

Alberto Del Rio, while not the most exciting of talents, is a former world champion and is treated and booked as such. It's good to have the midcard strap on someone with credibility, which is why I was happy both midcard champions made it to the World Title tournament semifinals.

Is this even really worth remarking on? The five previous title runs before his were two from Cena, Rollins, Rusev, and Sheamus, all very credible in their own right and, to varying degrees, a lot better at getting crowd investment in their work. Alberto on the other hand feels like he's already completely killed everything the belt had going for it and just made it a useless prop just bolstering his stupid, unexplained Mexamerica thing.

I never said he was the first with credibility to hold the strap, nor the best. I just said he does have credibility, being multiple time former champ, and it's good to keep the strap on someone credible for the time being. The fact that both champions made it to the tournament semis proved that they are a slight cut above the rest, barring the Shield guys.

[Session Moth is over]

2. But hey I'm enjoying watching old Raws from 96 and 97 instead.

[Push R Truth]

I enjoy everything outside of the main event and Paige, so I give it a 7.

I just can't figure out Paige. I feel like I've spent years being told how awesome she is yet every time I see her in the ring:"Wait, this is supposed to be a great wrestler? She's probably the third best wrestler in the ring if I have to include the Ref."

[mizerable]

I guess zero would mean I wouldn't check the forum. I'll go with 1. I'm not watching (haven't for a couple years), but it's not like I can just forget about wrestling...that's like impossible for me.

[cahuette]

4, I'm really not interested in much of what's going on, I cared about Rollins and he's gone, they got my interest up a bit when Owen started but they f***ed that up fast and I have to say Taker/Reigns focused storylines make me want to puke in my mouth.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

7

Match quality is enough to keep my interest, as are New Day, Owens, Cesaro, Eurotrash, Wyatts, Reignd and Ambrose.

[mhamm05]

Nov 23, 2015 7:39:18 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

I enjoy everything outside of the main event and Paige, so I give it a 7.

I just can't figure out Paige. I feel like I've spent years being told how awesome she is yet every time I see her in the ring:"Wait, this is supposed to be a great wrestler? She's probably the third best wrestler in the ring if I have to include the Ref."

I don't know if I'm quite that low on Paige, but I am glad that the Bella / Paige feuds are out of the way so hopefully we can get Lynch or Banks in there.

[Johnny Flamingo]

10

Enjoying the main roster and I find NXT to be the best wrestling product I've seen since the original ECW. Best in-ring product WWE has ever put out. Really exceptional talent.

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Nov 23, 2015 8:34:53 GMT -5 mhamm05 said:

Nov 23, 2015 7:39:18 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

I enjoy everything outside of the main event and Paige, so I give it a 7.

I just can't figure out Paige. I feel like I've spent years being told how awesome she is yet every time I see her in the ring:"Wait, this is supposed to be a great wrestler? She's probably the third best wrestler in the ring if I have to include the Ref."

I don't know if I'm quite that low on Paige, but I am glad that the Bella / Paige feuds are out of the way so hopefully we can get Lynch or Banks in there.

I'm pretty positive the Paige feud is going to keep going.

Either way I wouldn't be expecting good things out of a Charlotte / Sasha Banks feud right now. They seem deadset on making Charlotte a super-face when no one wants to cheer for her and I doubt that'd really change, so they'd probably be going overboard trying to get people to boo Sasha, plus making Sasha prominent right now would also involve a healthy dose of Naomi and Tamina matches which would be... not good.

[mcstoklasa]

Ehh, 6 or 7. Waiting for the road to wrestlemania to reignite Wrestlemania.

[sunnytaker]

3.5 I don't even watch smackdown anymore, just read the spoilers and I can finish RAW in about an hour most weeks after fast forwarding through the parts that don't interest me. and that cesaro is out it may be possible to finish in half that time.