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Post by The Man That Sanity Forgot on Jan 20, 2013 12:14:04 GMT -5
Cody Rhodes. Give him a long chickens*** heel championship reign where he holds onto the title using every trick in the book. This, but with Brad Maddox  |
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Post by Sam Punk on Jan 20, 2013 12:32:29 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan, no doubt. He'd have great matches with everyone.
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Post by BatPunk on Jan 20, 2013 13:06:49 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan!
He had a ridiculously awesome run as ROH World Champion having incredible matches with everyone on the roster as well as elite wrestlers from all around the world.
He could easily have a similar run in WWE as a WWE Champion with an 'Open Contract' accepting all challengers.
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Post by Sparkybob on Jan 20, 2013 13:12:53 GMT -5
Jack Swagger, for selfish reasons. I mean give him back his eagle and give him a JBL-esque title run with him being goody the whole time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2013 13:27:15 GMT -5
Big Show - I think the guy is a great champion, possibly the best champion in the business. The story is so simple, he's the biggest baddest man on earth who can stop him? Great on the mic and is amazing in the ring for his size.
Mark Henry - Ditto^
Antonio Cesaro - Play up that his combination of size, agility, and strength as this impossible puzzle for his challengers to solve. They could go with more a sports-feel with him, similar to when Angle/Lesnar were tearing it up in 02-03.
Heel R-Truth - The volatile personality and promo skills to simply take over a show. He did it effortlessly on Raw in 2011.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Jan 20, 2013 13:49:07 GMT -5
Keeping the business sense in mind, you'd have to put it on someone who isn't going to hurt your ratings too badly by being the champion for so long. I don't trust Bryan with a year long title reign since he hasn't proven himself to be a ratings draw for Raw.
At this point, I don't know if anyone could be trusted with a year long reign. Sheamus? Maybe in the future. If anyone, I might say Ryback if he's built up properly with guys like Big Show, Kane, Mark Henry, Cena, etc.
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Post by Mr. Socko's Brother on Jan 20, 2013 14:12:04 GMT -5
I don't believe in year-long title runs.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 20, 2013 14:29:08 GMT -5
A heel John Cena, leading a brutal NWO-style faction, attacking everyone in sight unless they joined, under the logic that Cena is not content with merely being the biggest star in the WWE, but wanting to take over the company himself and run it.
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Post by TGM on Jan 20, 2013 15:15:45 GMT -5
Sheamus doing Samoa Joes RoH title run. Defending it outside the United States once in a while... making it a WORLD title.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 20, 2013 15:29:38 GMT -5
I would give someone like Alex Riley an longer version of the "ultimate underdog" run. It would be a cross between Rey Mysterio's WHC run, and Cena's first title reign where he takes on all comers. However, while he would be the WWE Champion, he would share the spotlight with John Cena and/or the part time guys like The Rock. It wouldn't be as bad as CM Punk's face run with the WWE Title where he hardly ever got to main event. He would be closing SmackDown (there would be no WHC in this scenario) and he and Cena/whomever would take turns closing RAW and PPVs. I actually believe that the "1A-1B" booking can work if handled right; if the 1-A and 1-B wrestlers actually alternate headlining shows.
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Post by Jimmy on Jan 20, 2013 15:35:35 GMT -5
Cody Rhodes. Give him a long chickens*** heel championship reign where he holds onto the title using every trick in the book. I agree, I think Cody could do the Ric Flair thing perfectly, especially since he's about the same size as Flair. |
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Post by bogey316 on Jan 20, 2013 15:44:27 GMT -5
Good thing the TC said you can't choose Cena or else everbody would be picking him I'm sure...
Each choice for me, Daniel Bryan. The guys deserves a nice, long run with the title and I hope he gets one someone.
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Post by Digital Witness on Jan 20, 2013 15:49:02 GMT -5
I'd mark like crazy for Santino with the Punk-o-Meter The hell with that. Give him the Bruno-meter.  |
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Post by Banecat on Jan 20, 2013 16:41:38 GMT -5
Cody Rhodes. Give him a long chickens*** heel championship reign where he holds onto the title using every trick in the book. I'm ok with this if Ric Flair is his manager. |
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Post by babyfootball on Jan 20, 2013 16:45:35 GMT -5
Outside of that I also thought of another one that would be at least interesting...Brock Lesnar. Now before everyone poo poos it hear me out. WWE is supposedly in talks with him about offering him a new contract. Given how few dates he worked with this one so far we should expect much, but I don't think 20 dates would be out of the question. I think it could be a return to 1980s WWE where you rarely saw the top guy wrestle on free TV. He could wrestle every PPV and use the remaining 8 days to work TV shows. Of course to keep him relevent he could still pop up with pre-taped segments. Although there are of course a lot of holes in this booking it would at least give the World Title Strap a chance to shine and whoever defeated Lesnar could get a ton of momentum. Also, Lesnar appearing so rarely could add to his heel heat in an odd way. I absolutely agree that this could work. I like Brock, but I don't even think it'd have to be him for it to work, although it would make a lot more sense considering his history in all of wrestling/MMA. I think a big problem with today's wrestling is oversaturation. And although it would suck for all of the talented guys who work EVERY DAY to see somebody who puts in a small percentage of what they do be rewarded in the highest magnitude, and I'm sure it would cause some resentment from the locker room to the message boards, if it's booked right, it could help MAKE MONEY. Pop PPV buys to see a guy who they know will put on a great show and someone they don't get to see all that often. Have him take on a different challenger every month, and the TV can be all about how hard everybody has to work to even get that precious shot at the gold. The feuds write themselves. If it's Brock, make him an ultra-heel who both heels and faces alike want to see get taken down, and want more than anything to be the one to do it. It's sort of what WCW did with Hogan when he turned heel (since his babyface persona was so stale at that point) because they were paying him so much and he had such a sweet contract that he could go for enos without working because he was off shooting some Academy Award-winning film. He wasn't taking on the Ice Trains and Alex Wrights of the world on Thunder and Saturday Night, he was laying in tanning beds and doing whatever else Hulk Hogan does when he's not at work. And it worked, because people absolutely hated Hogan, and when another guy who made even fewer appearances FINALLY beat him for the belt, it did great business and really meant something (too bad the match stunk). Since I don't think they'll ever get Brock to agree to even 20 dates a year, it could be somebody more established. I know that with SO MANY HOURS of TV these days, it's kind of an "all hands on deck" scenario. I'd almost think that the type of wrestler to do this would be somebody who otherwise would have a reason to only work 20 times a year, such as age of a chronic injury, and I suppose oldness is the most chonic form of injury there is! ;D Like, there's no way that you're taking a Randy Orton or Sheamus off the road because they have no reason to be. I still say that a few years ago, HBK could've got a nice run with the belt, although definitely not for a year, without working houses or Smackdowns and just doing his usual TV/PPV schedule (that was one of the popular reasons for it not happening after his little WHC stint in 2003). It always worked for boxing (until boxing ran out of marketable stars/society started rejecting the pure violence associated with the sport after seeing the condition of so many of its former elderly stars) and it works for MMA. Compare it to other forms of entertainment. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire did great ratings when it was a weekly primetime, when it became more frequent in syndication, it doesn't do anywhere close the business. 1 Super Bowl does better than 4-7 World Series Games (as much as I love baseball...). Nobody cared about a Lesnar Vs. Austin throwaway match on Raw, I always agreed with Stone Cold on that one. To be fair to CM Punk, he made it work by evolving character-wise over the span of his year-long reign, because he was on TV so damn often he almost had to be a totally different guy every couple of months just to stay fresh. That was a big one of other long-reigning titleholders' problems in the past: staleness. That's why it's better to be a heel in that scenario (especially with the sheer volume of WWE content released nowadays) in that at some point, even the most beloved things reach a saturation level and the backlash starts. I know that we'll never go back to the days of jobbers and Hogan holding the title for 4 years (and god knows I don't want to go back for so many reasons) but I do believe it would serve WWE well to take a few things from that era. Sometimes, less is more. |
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jan 20, 2013 21:17:26 GMT -5
My boy, D-Bry. He could do it. |
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Post by kidglov3s on Jan 20, 2013 21:20:35 GMT -5
Randy Orton
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