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Post by The Ichi on Jan 10, 2013 13:28:00 GMT -5
Cody feuding competitvely with Show made him look great too. I must have missed this in Show destroying him at Mania, embarrassing him for weeks afterwards, then losing in a very weak manner with a follow-up of absolutely wrecking Cody after that match...and then beating him clean as a whistle on Raw or Smackdown shortly after. Feuding with Show destroyed Cody. During the build up to their WM match, Cody would constantly outsmart Big Show. If Cody won that match it would have been considered a burial.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jan 10, 2013 13:28:44 GMT -5
Um, does everybody seriously forget that Show was pretty much a jobber from 2000 to 2006? Whoever was booking WWECW at the time sure did And I remember his title win on SD in 02, after jobbing all over the Raw roster. made zero sense. On topic, I think Cena benefitted from his feud with Show. Ditto for Sheamus.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 10, 2013 13:30:20 GMT -5
I must have missed this in Show destroying him at Mania, embarrassing him for weeks afterwards, then losing in a very weak manner with a follow-up of absolutely wrecking Cody after that match...and then beating him clean as a whistle on Raw or Smackdown shortly after. Feuding with Show destroyed Cody. During the build up to their WM match, Cody would constantly outsmart Big Show. If Cody won that match it would have been considered a burial. And the plot dictated that Big Show needed the win. He needed to finally have a WrestleMania moment after years of being embarrassed by celebrities and/or John Cena.
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Post by trollrogue on Jan 10, 2013 13:43:17 GMT -5
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 10, 2013 13:52:33 GMT -5
I must have missed this in Show destroying him at Mania, embarrassing him for weeks afterwards, then losing in a very weak manner with a follow-up of absolutely wrecking Cody after that match...and then beating him clean as a whistle on Raw or Smackdown shortly after. Feuding with Show destroyed Cody. During the build up to their WM match, Cody would constantly outsmart Big Show. If Cody won that match it would have been considered a burial. And then what happened after? Cody looked like utter crap and only recovered when placed into a tag team with Damien Sandow. How is that Big Show helping a guy in a feud?
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Post by CM Parish on Jan 10, 2013 13:59:27 GMT -5
{Spoiler}Alberto Del Rio right now?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2013 14:14:00 GMT -5
During the build up to their WM match, Cody would constantly outsmart Big Show. If Cody won that match it would have been considered a burial. And then what happened after? Cody looked like utter crap and only recovered when placed into a tag team with Damien Sandow. How is that Big Show helping a guy in a feud? That wasn't the problem with the Show feud, where Cody made him look a fool for 4 straight months and at Extreme Rules, and got a babyface ovation for standing up and walking out after that sickening post-match table bump. The aftermath where they had the chance to maintain that bad-ass looking Cody was ruined by giving him nothing to do, you can't blame that on the time period before which established Cody as a great heel who came out of that feud with the title he desperately wanted, whilst in the run up to Wrestlemania he made Show look like a moron week in week out. To say Show won that feud because he won at Wrestlemania and embarrassed Cody for three weeks proves my point about people thinking benefiting from a feud is about wins and losses. It's not. It's about how the wrestler looks after it and the chances the company has to make them look better. Unfortunately in Cody's case post-Extreme Rules he was booked as a guy who generally didn't do anything aside from lose to Randy Orton or other guys in the main event scene up until his Rhodes Scholars run.
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Post by Snaptastic on Jan 10, 2013 14:16:14 GMT -5
I enjoyed Rock's feud with Show following the 2000 Rumble.
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Post by modestgenius on Jan 10, 2013 15:56:17 GMT -5
JBL.
Big Show was the sole remaining main-event face left on Smackdown who JBL hadn't managed to squirm his way past in order to keep his title. When he was finally cornered into a match with him (a barbed-wire steel cage no less) it seemed a certainty that the JBL era was at an end - when JBL won that match it cemented him not as a dominant champion, but as a slimy snake which you just couldn't get a grasp of.
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Post by joebob27 on Jan 10, 2013 16:02:05 GMT -5
Um, does everybody seriously forget that Show was pretty much a jobber from 2000 to 2006? Yeah, I was gonna say that. This is a pretty new trend.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 10, 2013 18:55:36 GMT -5
Everyone who feuded with Show during his ECW run benefited. Show was having great matches (as great as a guy his size can have) night in, night out and made everyone look like a million bucks.
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Post by Lt. Palumbo on Jan 10, 2013 18:58:22 GMT -5
Cena was the first one that came to mind. Their US title feud played a part in launching Cena to where he is
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Post by Lt. Palumbo on Jan 10, 2013 19:11:12 GMT -5
Everyone who feuded with Show during his ECW run benefited. Show was having great matches (as great as a guy his size can have) night in, night out and made everyone look like a million bucks. Yeah, totally true. Remember that Flair match? God DAMN!!!
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 10, 2013 22:04:53 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan caught fire when he was feuding with Big Show over the World Title. One of my favourite feuds last year. Came in to post this. you'll also notice I mentioned him in the opening post
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Post by RareTradU on Jan 10, 2013 22:29:23 GMT -5
It's already been said, but I'll say Mark Henry. I never really enjoyed any of Henry's work until his fued with Show. They really complimented each other's style and Henry looked like such a badass in the fued.
I also like the small fued with Mick Foley when Show first arrived in WWE. Their match at WM15 was brutal and their boiler room brawl was pretty good as well.
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Post by The Gambler Fan on Jan 10, 2013 23:07:11 GMT -5
Bobby Lashley
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Post by mjolnir on Jan 10, 2013 23:18:21 GMT -5
Alot of cases mentioned here it isn't so much what Show said or did in the ring, as the writing. SES' continued destruction was embarrassing, especially when all three of them couldn't beat Show. But that was the writing team, not Show's doing. To his credit, most of their matches weren't bad for what context they were given to work with.
Albeit still baffles me we were really suppose to believe Show could single handedly beat a big guy as tall as him, a former tag team champion who was top of the division, and a former WHC.
Nevermind Mysterio man handling those three prior to this.
The Cody feud's the same. Show and Cody had some good matches, and Cody looked good in them, even in defeat in most of the ones he lost. It was the writing that failed to follow up on him. Which is a constant trend for Cody I've noticed whenever he's gotten serious momentum from a feud. See, Rey Mysterio feud.
Actually, the more I think about it, I think I'd say it's more of a Smackdown problem as a whole. I can't remember the last time I've seen someone, outside of a select few babyfaces, maintain momentum between feuds. It's always the pop bottle effect. They shake it up, it starts out crazy, then fizzles out to flat by the time they've gotten to the next thing to do.
Admittedly RAW isn't perfect about this either, but they have alot more follow through than Smackdown.
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Post by bob on Jan 10, 2013 23:36:41 GMT -5
Kurt Angle
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Jan 11, 2013 0:16:52 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan's YES! chant started after a Big Show match
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 11, 2013 0:40:26 GMT -5
Alot of cases mentioned here it isn't so much what Show said or did in the ring, as the writing. SES' continued destruction was embarrassing, especially when all three of them couldn't beat Show. But that was the writing team, not Show's doing. To his credit, most of their matches weren't bad for what context they were given to work with. Albeit still baffles me we were really suppose to believe Show could single handedly beat a big guy as tall as him, a former tag team champion who was top of the division, and a former WHC. Nevermind Mysterio man handling those three prior to this. The Cody feud's the same. Show and Cody had some good matches, and Cody looked good in them, even in defeat in most of the ones he lost. It was the writing that failed to follow up on him. Which is a constant trend for Cody I've noticed whenever he's gotten serious momentum from a feud. See, Rey Mysterio feud. Actually, the more I think about it, I think I'd say it's more of a Smackdown problem as a whole. I can't remember the last time I've seen someone, outside of a select few babyfaces, maintain momentum between feuds. It's always the pop bottle effect. They shake it up, it starts out crazy, then fizzles out to flat by the time they've gotten to the next thing to do. Admittedly RAW isn't perfect about this either, but they have alot more follow through than Smackdown. Amen. Smackdown really has had a serious problem with this for years. It is a big part of why it has always been the B show, outside of possibly the immediate aftermath of the first draft.
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