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Post by benstudd on Apr 5, 2017 20:47:17 GMT -5
You cannot fault fans for cheering heel KO and Jericho cause the WWE booked them in such a way, they made them front and centers of RAWs for months, they wrote them as two dastardly loveable heels and the two most entertaining acts on the show. You cannot fault fans for booing RR cause he is getting all the breaks while being the typical pretty boy muscle guy that looks like he came out of a Twilight movie and is extremely boring. Never said that I blame the fans. I'm just saying that I think Kevin Owens/Jericho getting cheers as faces and Roman getting booed as a heel, from a critical, objective standpoint, should be looked at as equally problematic. It's the fault of the booking and performers to different degrees and you should always be trying to have the fans react according to the written narrative no matter if it's cheers or boos. Been saying this for a while, the booking of some of these guys have been assbackwards. For example AJ Styles is clearly the hero of millions. He's booked as a Heel.
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Post by xCompackx on Apr 5, 2017 23:31:05 GMT -5
Rosenberg, the fans didn't choose Roman Reigns out of the SHIELD, you did. Stop lying and accept that he was the one they chose. And WWE, if you keep having to tell us that something for more than a few years now, it just isn't true. Bottom line, WWE: Stop trying to gaslight your own fans. Honestly, I do feel bad for guys like Kevin Rosenberg who have to go out and spew these corporate lines that even he probably doesn't believe. The wrestlers who have to comment on it are the same way; you can't tell me Chris Jericho or HHH or even Roman himself really believes this shit they're telling them. To think WWE somehow found this creative new formula for booking top guys to where they can be faces and heels at the same time and their characters won't suffer at all from it. I mean, does that even sound like it works?
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 5, 2017 23:47:32 GMT -5
Presumably then those same several hundred people from message boards must keep following WWE from city to city across North America to boo the superface Roman Reigns.
That's dedication!
Network subscribers basically ARE the Internet Wrestling Community. I don't know if you're aware, but practically the entire western world at this point in an "internet community" of sort sort. The "IWC" make up pretty much all of NXT's fanbase, and the majority of the Wrestlemania audience. They are the same people who stay for the following night's Raw. The same people WWE arrogantly and pitifully dismiss as weird and bizarre.
Yes, he has a fanbase. But it's not enough to justify him being booked as a superface, and before anyone cites Cena as a successful example, the Cena era has seen most of their Attitude Era fanbase drift away and countless other potential stars be squandered because of their single minded devotion to Cena, which has alienated millions of former fans. It should also be noted that diminishing returns are already being seen. Reigns is less popular than Cena.
It's not hate. Enzo is annoying, but he's supposed to be. People seem OK with Cass and expect he's heading for bigger things down the line. Pretty much all the Horsewomen are respected for the most part, and the criticism of Brock is based mostly on questioning whether his price is really worth it.
Nothing approaching the level of hostility towards Reigns.
It's because it was a backlash of WWE's single minded booking of Cena that I mentioned earlier.
By then the damage was done.
No, it means WWE failed to produce stars under their own developmental system after ending ties with OVW, and had to sign the indie darlings that previously WWE defenders mocked and ridiculed, because they had no other choice.
No, they wouldn't. They were brought in as happy clappy preachers of positivity. In fact the "New Nation" concept was always used as a joke on message boards such as this one, as a cheap black faction gimmick.
Ah yes, the "WWE had a masterplan all along" argument.
lol
As if the fans had nothing to do with it.
They were, before WWE crushed their enthusiasm
Ambrose is still very popular and well liked by the fanbase as a whole.
Nope. It's actually very consistent.
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