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Post by HIM on Jul 4, 2023 23:19:55 GMT -5
When's he gonna lose the US Title? I'm sorry but bruh, get him outta here. We've seen the bad selfie gimmick, we've seen this "serious Theory who acts like he's a mix of Rock and Cena" character, I mean even Cena cooked his ass and was right about what happens after Cena leaves after their WM match. Dude has regressed and nobody cares about him.
For all the stuff about the "Jinder Experiment" years ago you can't lie and say Jinder didn't make that gimmick as great as he could and also that Jinder wasn't champion long. I literally haven't cared about this dude Theory at all outside of the Cena promo battle.
What are they doing with this dude?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 4, 2023 23:35:33 GMT -5
Theory's pretty good in the ring with the right opponent but dude is unfathomably dull as a character. He was only any good as a himbo minion, dude just flat out isn't a main event talent.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 4, 2023 23:37:59 GMT -5
The primary issue lately is that he has been given chances to up his game and show everyone something. The Cena feud was his chance to take that step. And he didn't show us anything that we didn't already know. Orton had that chance with Foley in 2004 and he took it. It's time to end this experiment and go back to the drawing board.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jul 4, 2023 23:38:26 GMT -5
Man, his character has absolutely sucked since he left The Way. He can have absolute bangers of matches, so they just need to have him play to his strengths as a character.,.
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Jul 4, 2023 23:44:08 GMT -5
I just remember Elimination Chamber 2022, where it was a killer's row of guys in the men's chamber and......Austin Theory. It was clearly an attempt to elevate him, but instead it felt like he dragged the match down.
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Post by lionheart21 on Jul 4, 2023 23:45:46 GMT -5
It's even more noticeable now that Grayson Waller is on the main roster, since he's not only better than Theory in pretty much every category, but the man even held his own against Cena in their promo battle.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 4, 2023 23:48:15 GMT -5
I just remember Elimination Chamber 2022, where it was a killer's row of guys in the men's chamber and......Austin Theory. It was clearly an attempt to elevate him, but instead it felt like he dragged the match down. That match was an utter bummer because you had five dudes busting their asses to put on a crazy match and Theory spending the entire thing napping and then he just won without even doing anything. Think that's another problem really, Theory's finisher is waiting for someone to do a run-in so every time he wins it just feels like a massive anticlimax. |
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jul 4, 2023 23:49:21 GMT -5
I got a Theory: this guy STINKS
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jul 5, 2023 0:25:53 GMT -5
Theory can’t really hold a candle to Knight, Miz or even Waller.
Too many guys who are in the same sort of slot as him and he’s not better than any of them.
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Post by asuka007 on Jul 5, 2023 0:46:15 GMT -5
This title reign needs to end. Somehow beating John Cena at Mania not only has not help Theory. But he feels like LESS of a factor now if anything.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 5, 2023 0:54:20 GMT -5
This title reign needs to end. Somehow beating John Cena at Mania not only has not help Theory. But he feels like LESS of a factor now if anything. I think it's that, like... Everyone knew they were doing the Cena match eventually, it was teased and rumored for years on end, so you were kind of like, "Okay, this will be what puts Theory on the next level." And then it came and went as a total pile of nothing that just kind of sucked in every way and didn't get Theory any more over than he already was so now there is no prospective, "THIS will be what does it!" on the horizon anymore. |
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 5, 2023 1:01:29 GMT -5
The crowd also does not care, like... it's apathy towards him. Other guys do his act and do it better, Grayson Waller is literally showing it, equally great in ring, potentially better upside, and just gel'd with Cena better too
I have a feeling he's not lasting much longer at this rate when it comes to this type of push. Just reunite The Way, it was and far and away remains the best use of his character. Other than that? His in ring ability has not outweighed the problem that he simply does not have it on the mic to carry. Cena absolutely obliterating him months ago showed it imo.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 5, 2023 1:01:38 GMT -5
The biggest favor they could do for him would be to have him lose the title, get him off of TV for a bit, and then probably try to give him a face run, because he still has the stench of being Vince's boy and earning nothing for himself. He's completely tapped as a heel, with there just being many better and more interesting options as US champion.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jul 5, 2023 1:54:17 GMT -5
Just give Waller the exact same push Theory is getting and let him back in The Way.
I don’t think it would exactly fix the guy but what they’re doing right now just doesn’t work.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jul 5, 2023 2:03:00 GMT -5
Theory can’t really hold a candle to Knight, Miz or even Waller. Too many guys who are in the same sort of slot as him and he’s not better than any of them. I think it’s telling they have been giving Knight and Waller (kinda have to handwave Miz given his tenure and him being a RAW talent means they have to fill that extra hour somehow) much more TV and PPV time recently than Theory, even though Theory is an active titleholder, especially with TV time on SmackDown being at such a premium with so much it being devoted to the Bloodline angle. |
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Post by Mid-Carder on Jul 5, 2023 2:15:17 GMT -5
He reminds me of Drew McIntyre's Chosen One push where I was like yeah this guy's perfectly good but THIS GUY is their hand-picked top guy? Things ultimately worked out well for Drew but not then and not the character they'd given him
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Post by pinja on Jul 5, 2023 2:31:50 GMT -5
Time goes by, Theory doesn't improve dramatically, but what always gets buried are the two reasons he can't rise above: He doesn't shine like a vessel nor burn like a cattle anymore. It's unfortunate but true.
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Post by chronocross on Jul 5, 2023 5:56:19 GMT -5
He's decent in the ring but that's about it, Waller as U.S champion wouldn't be a bad idea as he can get more heat than Theory.
The match with Cena at Mania and the promo before it did more harm than good, IMO. Cena basically said how it was going to go down and it happened and Theory looked like a goof out there.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jul 5, 2023 6:03:22 GMT -5
Honestly I don't even think he's that amazing in the ring, he's good but basically every prominent wrestler is at least good. He's certainly not good enough to make up for not being a very good talker either.
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Post by XIII on Jul 5, 2023 6:40:28 GMT -5
The potential is there. He needs to find something character wise to get over though. Remember Cena was kind of boring until he started rapping and then he got over huge.
That said Theory is no John Cena. 😂
Also: yes drop the US title already.
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