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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on Oct 23, 2013 0:20:06 GMT -5
What is it with Orton? First Cena. Then Triple H. Then Christian. The guy has the ability to make any feud want you to hope that they never encounter each other again. The matches are generally good/passable, it's the actual feud outside the ropes part that bores people to tears. I mean there will be cool moments where Orton RKOs someone or almost kills a guy, but the promos are generally boring between him and his opponent. There's no real emotional connection with the guy either. You got that with Rock, Austin, Hogan, Savage, Bret, Shawn, hell even Cena, Orton not so much.
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Post by saintpat on Oct 23, 2013 0:40:39 GMT -5
Welcome to the microwave society. WWE brings in something new -- Fandango, Wyatts, DBry's push, whatever -- and the IWC reaction is "This is new, this is great." A month later if it has not progressed or only progressed marginally and it's "I'm so ready for this to be over with. Please end it." The Wyatt thing is obviously moving along (see Smackdown or read the spoilers). Maybe it got drawn out a bit more because of Wyatt being sidelined by injury, but many have given up on it. The Best for Business/Authority thing is only a few months old but you'd think from a lot of the reactions it has been going on for 11 years. You couldn't do an angle like Hogan-Andre these days, playing out over months and months, or the Million Dollar Champion, or Honky Tonk holding the IC championship forever via repeated DQs or Evolution slowly evolving and then devolving, or even something like Jericho-HBK from just a few years ago ... because today's audience doesn't have the patience. It's "I want what I want and I want it now." That's too bad, IMO. The best angles have always needed time to develop. Bryan doesn't get his payoff in a month's time and it's like "forget it, I've been betrayed." People say they want midcarders to have characters and programs and something like the Wyatts or The Shield comes along and within a couple of months you start seeing "it's time to move on." I don't think that's necessarily the case. I think the backlash is against angles that don't evolve. That are static, essentially the same thing over and over and over again without meaningful progression or developments. Like CM Punk and Paul Heyman has essentially been a continuous ongoing storyline for over a year now, and arena fans are still into that, and still into Bryan or that matter. I think that there are criticisms of this or that particular angle doesn't mean that people are incapable of enjoying extended storylines. How has Punk-Heyman not evolved? At WM in the spring, Punk was a Paul Heyman guy. Sometime over the summer, doubts began to creep in -- and then they started a full-fledged feud in the buildup to Summer Slam, which gave us Punk-Lesnar (how is that same-old same-old?). As we got into the fall, it became more of a direct Punk-Heyman thing with Axel involved ... leading up to what I presume to be the payoff at Hell in a Cell, where Punk will likely get his revenge on Heyman in a place where he can't escape. This has not been in any way, shape or form the same thing for a year.
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Post by kidglov3s on Oct 23, 2013 7:32:19 GMT -5
That was meant to be an example of an angle that has evolved and has generally been received well, counter to like Daniel Bryan/HHH which has been more the same thing week after week.
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Post by Instant Classic on Oct 23, 2013 7:34:09 GMT -5
Honestly, Yea but then again I'm a Randy Orton guy in this feud.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 23, 2013 7:34:43 GMT -5
Not at all, I am still psyched that Bryan is a top guy and I'm hoping he gets a good, length championship reign.
At the same time, I think if he isn't the champion by the end of Hell in a Cell, my interest will wane.
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Post by g1megatronfan on Oct 23, 2013 16:40:33 GMT -5
Yes.
WWE has made this storyline more about Triple H, Stephanie and The Big Show more than it's been about Daniel Bryan. All they do is throw Bryan in the same friggin matches against members of the Shield over and over again while the storyline is centered around 3 other people and it's not even a good storyline at that. It wasn't good when they did it with Michaels and JBL a few years ago.
They have effectively killed off my interest in Bryan ever getting the belt back between this non-sense side story, the repeated screwey endings to title matches and basically turning Bryan into a character who just stands around and chants YES! when he's not in the same matches over and over again. The storyline could have been good...but they messed it up.
Something is wrong when Big Show has a bigger part than Bryan does. Not to mention Triple H flat out sucks on the mic. I never did like him much but this run has re-enforced my disdain of this guy (not in a normal heel way) but I want him off my TV forever. Never...ever come back on my screen again. That sums up my feelings about HHH. Same with Stephanie. Leave my screen and never show your mug on it again. Both are horrendous in every way imaginable.
All these things have killed my interest in Bryan and his chase for the belt.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 16:55:52 GMT -5
I was originally going to watch this to document how the feud's been booked but I can't even be assed to bother. Now part of that is Monday Night Football, another part is that I genuinely dislike WWE, but the most important part is that the storyline has just plain sucked. Booking still doesn't know how to build a main eventer properly. They think bringing Cena back is going to fix their personnel problems. Big Show is randomly a major facet of the story for no particular reason.
As a result, I haven't really watched this feud in-depth in around a month.
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Post by froggyfrog on Oct 23, 2013 17:08:07 GMT -5
Not him but the story is awful and I haven't watched a full Raw since August
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 18:19:30 GMT -5
My interest in everyone wanes eventually. It's happened with the Wyatts aswell. WWE have a bad habit of repetition in recent years and seeing guys do the same thing and cut the same promos over and over and over again. Welcome to the microwave society. WWE brings in something new -- Fandango, Wyatts, DBry's push, whatever -- and the IWC reaction is "This is new, this is great." A month later if it has not progressed or only progressed marginally and it's "I'm so ready for this to be over with. Please end it." The Wyatt thing is obviously moving along (see Smackdown or read the spoilers). Maybe it got drawn out a bit more because of Wyatt being sidelined by injury, but many have given up on it. The Best for Business/Authority thing is only a few months old but you'd think from a lot of the reactions it has been going on for 11 years. You couldn't do an angle like Hogan-Andre these days, playing out over months and months, or the Million Dollar Champion, or Honky Tonk holding the IC championship forever via repeated DQs or Evolution slowly evolving and then devolving, or even something like Jericho-HBK from just a few years ago ... because today's audience doesn't have the patience. It's "I want what I want and I want it now." That's too bad, IMO. The best angles have always needed time to develop. Bryan doesn't get his payoff in a month's time and it's like "forget it, I've been betrayed." People say they want midcarders to have characters and programs and something like the Wyatts or The Shield comes along and within a couple of months you start seeing "it's time to move on." I'm not saying this sentiment doesn't exist, it definitely does. But as the person who started this thread, I have to say, I am not a microwave society person. I'm patient, and I like arc-ing stories and things that take time to develop. I have been with the Wyatt Family thing all the way, I still dig it because I feel like it's going to go somewhere, so I'm fine that they're not eating people or winning titles or whatever Wyatts do right away, as long as it leads to something. And I think it will. My problem with the storyline is this: it's making Daniel Bryan less likeable to me from a character standpoint (as I ranted about in the OP, all this shit just happens to him and just grins and gives half-assed sarcastic retorts, it's copmletely grating and unrelateable) and I do not enjoy the worked-shoot nature of Triple H's promos becuase I see them as harmful to the talent involved. Remember when Miz and Ziggler were about to speak their mind on Smackdown, then Triple H walked out and they got all scared and clammed up? Then he said Miz is all talk, and Ziggler is too small. Meanwhile, both guys have done nothing but lose since. I don't even like The Miz, but I can see he got a bad deal there. If Daniel Bryan had strong character development and we were getting entertaining stuff that felt like it was building to something, I'd have no problem with this taking a while. But it's about the journey, as much if not more than the destination. And the journey...it's sucked to me. I actually predicted the Triple H swerve and somewhat wanted it to happen, because I thought it would be interesting. But, in retrospect, Bryan's story built perfectly to that big win at Summerslam. From the 18 seconds thing at Mania, to Team Hell No, to turning face and getting insane crowd support, it was the perfect build, one we rarely see these days. If they're trying to stretch out the payoff and give Bryan the ultimate big win, I still don't see it trumping knocking off John Cena clean at Summerslam when his popularity was at it's zenith. And it hasn't been an entertaining ride in the process, with 2 of the worst PPVs WWE has done in a while back-to-back, main evented by Daniel Bryan. I'm just seeing a lot of bad signs here. If it all goes great and down the road Bryan gets an even bigger win that beating Cena and he's WWE champ, I'll gladly admit I'm wrong, just like I am about this whole storyline that I was initially in favor of. If it goes bad, I'm not going to say I told you so, becaues that's always a douche move. But, I will remember, and it will be harder for me to invest in WWE pushing people I really like.
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Post by saintpat on Oct 23, 2013 18:43:43 GMT -5
Welcome to the microwave society. WWE brings in something new -- Fandango, Wyatts, DBry's push, whatever -- and the IWC reaction is "This is new, this is great." A month later if it has not progressed or only progressed marginally and it's "I'm so ready for this to be over with. Please end it." The Wyatt thing is obviously moving along (see Smackdown or read the spoilers). Maybe it got drawn out a bit more because of Wyatt being sidelined by injury, but many have given up on it. The Best for Business/Authority thing is only a few months old but you'd think from a lot of the reactions it has been going on for 11 years. You couldn't do an angle like Hogan-Andre these days, playing out over months and months, or the Million Dollar Champion, or Honky Tonk holding the IC championship forever via repeated DQs or Evolution slowly evolving and then devolving, or even something like Jericho-HBK from just a few years ago ... because today's audience doesn't have the patience. It's "I want what I want and I want it now." That's too bad, IMO. The best angles have always needed time to develop. Bryan doesn't get his payoff in a month's time and it's like "forget it, I've been betrayed." People say they want midcarders to have characters and programs and something like the Wyatts or The Shield comes along and within a couple of months you start seeing "it's time to move on." I'm not saying this sentiment doesn't exist, it definitely does. But as the person who started this thread, I have to say, I am not a microwave society person. I'm patient, and I like arc-ing stories and things that take time to develop. I have been with the Wyatt Family thing all the way, I still dig it because I feel like it's going to go somewhere, so I'm fine that they're not eating people or winning titles or whatever Wyatts do right away, as long as it leads to something. And I think it will. My problem with the storyline is this: it's making Daniel Bryan less likeable to me from a character standpoint (as I ranted about in the OP, all this shit just happens to him and just grins and gives half-assed sarcastic retorts, it's copmletely grating and unrelateable) and I do not enjoy the worked-shoot nature of Triple H's promos becuase I see them as harmful to the talent involved. Remember when Miz and Ziggler were about to speak their mind on Smackdown, then Triple H walked out and they got all scared and clammed up? Then he said Miz is all talk, and Ziggler is too small. Meanwhile, both guys have done nothing but lose since. I don't even like The Miz, but I can see he got a bad deal there. If Daniel Bryan had strong character development and we were getting entertaining stuff that felt like it was building to something, I'd have no problem with this taking a while. But it's about the journey, as much if not more than the destination. And the journey...it's sucked to me. I actually predicted the Triple H swerve and somewhat wanted it to happen, because I thought it would be interesting. But, in retrospect, Bryan's story built perfectly to that big win at Summerslam. From the 18 seconds thing at Mania, to Team Hell No, to turning face and getting insane crowd support, it was the perfect build, one we rarely see these days. If they're trying to stretch out the payoff and give Bryan the ultimate big win, I still don't see it trumping knocking off John Cena clean at Summerslam when his popularity was at it's zenith. And it hasn't been an entertaining ride in the process, with 2 of the worst PPVs WWE has done in a while back-to-back, main evented by Daniel Bryan. I'm just seeing a lot of bad signs here. If it all goes great and down the road Bryan gets an even bigger win that beating Cena and he's WWE champ, I'll gladly admit I'm wrong, just like I am about this whole storyline that I was initially in favor of. If it goes bad, I'm not going to say I told you so, becaues that's always a douche move. But, I will remember, and it will be harder for me to invest in WWE pushing people I really like. I see something different, agree to disagree. If Bryan tries to trade barbs or match wits/promos with HHH, he's going to look weak. Very weak. Much weaker than if he laughs it off. It's like me challenging Mark Henry to an arm-wrestling match -- Bryan couldn't do so and get the better of it no matter how you script it because it's not his thing. His thing is to be an A-plus wrestler in the ring, and I think that's how he's playing it. He doesn't need to tell us he beat Cena and especially doesn't need to tell us he beat Orton -- we know it. And the audience knows we know it, so why say it? He has said if not for HHH he'd be champ right now, which is telling us he's beaten Orton. I think what they're going for, or at least how I view what they're presenting, is that Bryan does his talking in the ring. If Orton and Trips want to talk about it, he'll take care of it in the ring. I also don't see the problem with Triple H saying Jericho and Edge and RVD were popular but not good enough to be 'the guy' -- he's doing a heel promo and the audience loves those guys he's putting down and they boo him for it. It's called getting heat. NO ONE has had the reaction: "Hey, HHH just said those guys weren't good enough. And he said Bryan's not good enough. Dang it, he's right. Those guys suck." It's about as relevant as Punk or anyone else saying HHH wouldn't have amounted to anything if he hadn't married Stephanie. Did the internet explode over that and say, "Punk just invalidated the entire Reign of Terror. He just told us a longtime main eventer wasn't worthy." As I pointed out in another thread, Y2J in his debut promo said the entire locker room was boring and untalented. How is that different? Because HHH is an authority figure? Does anyone think that means someone out there listens to what he says when he cuts a heel promo and take it as if he said it in a board meeting?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 19:15:00 GMT -5
I'm not saying this sentiment doesn't exist, it definitely does. But as the person who started this thread, I have to say, I am not a microwave society person. I'm patient, and I like arc-ing stories and things that take time to develop. I have been with the Wyatt Family thing all the way, I still dig it because I feel like it's going to go somewhere, so I'm fine that they're not eating people or winning titles or whatever Wyatts do right away, as long as it leads to something. And I think it will. My problem with the storyline is this: it's making Daniel Bryan less likeable to me from a character standpoint (as I ranted about in the OP, all this shit just happens to him and just grins and gives half-assed sarcastic retorts, it's copmletely grating and unrelateable) and I do not enjoy the worked-shoot nature of Triple H's promos becuase I see them as harmful to the talent involved. Remember when Miz and Ziggler were about to speak their mind on Smackdown, then Triple H walked out and they got all scared and clammed up? Then he said Miz is all talk, and Ziggler is too small. Meanwhile, both guys have done nothing but lose since. I don't even like The Miz, but I can see he got a bad deal there. If Daniel Bryan had strong character development and we were getting entertaining stuff that felt like it was building to something, I'd have no problem with this taking a while. But it's about the journey, as much if not more than the destination. And the journey...it's sucked to me. I actually predicted the Triple H swerve and somewhat wanted it to happen, because I thought it would be interesting. But, in retrospect, Bryan's story built perfectly to that big win at Summerslam. From the 18 seconds thing at Mania, to Team Hell No, to turning face and getting insane crowd support, it was the perfect build, one we rarely see these days. If they're trying to stretch out the payoff and give Bryan the ultimate big win, I still don't see it trumping knocking off John Cena clean at Summerslam when his popularity was at it's zenith. And it hasn't been an entertaining ride in the process, with 2 of the worst PPVs WWE has done in a while back-to-back, main evented by Daniel Bryan. I'm just seeing a lot of bad signs here. If it all goes great and down the road Bryan gets an even bigger win that beating Cena and he's WWE champ, I'll gladly admit I'm wrong, just like I am about this whole storyline that I was initially in favor of. If it goes bad, I'm not going to say I told you so, becaues that's always a douche move. But, I will remember, and it will be harder for me to invest in WWE pushing people I really like. I see something different, agree to disagree. If Bryan tries to trade barbs or match wits/promos with HHH, he's going to look weak. Very weak. Much weaker than if he laughs it off. It's like me challenging Mark Henry to an arm-wrestling match -- Bryan couldn't do so and get the better of it no matter how you script it because it's not his thing. His thing is to be an A-plus wrestler in the ring, and I think that's how he's playing it. He doesn't need to tell us he beat Cena and especially doesn't need to tell us he beat Orton -- we know it. And the audience knows we know it, so why say it? He has said if not for HHH he'd be champ right now, which is telling us he's beaten Orton. I think what they're going for, or at least how I view what they're presenting, is that Bryan does his talking in the ring. If Orton and Trips want to talk about it, he'll take care of it in the ring. I also don't see the problem with Triple H saying Jericho and Edge and RVD were popular but not good enough to be 'the guy' -- he's doing a heel promo and the audience loves those guys he's putting down and they boo him for it. It's called getting heat. NO ONE has had the reaction: "Hey, HHH just said those guys weren't good enough. And he said Bryan's not good enough. Dang it, he's right. Those guys suck." It's about as relevant as Punk or anyone else saying HHH wouldn't have amounted to anything if he hadn't married Stephanie. Did the internet explode over that and say, "Punk just invalidated the entire Reign of Terror. He just told us a longtime main eventer wasn't worthy." As I pointed out in another thread, Y2J in his debut promo said the entire locker room was boring and untalented. How is that different? Because HHH is an authority figure? Does anyone think that means someone out there listens to what he says when he cuts a heel promo and take it as if he said it in a board meeting? I think a lot of it comes down to this: if you're in a position of being forever "made" and having all the kayfabe-credibility in the world, your words carry more weight and you're a lot harder to tear down. CM Punk saying Triple H wouldn't be where he was without marrying Stephanie (I don't even remember him saying that to be honest, maybe he implied it?) isn't going to do any harm to Triple H, beacuse he's already held the belt a million times and basically owns the company. Triple H saying Daniel Bryan is too small and is just like other guys who never got to the very top can potentially harm Daniel Bryan. It's all about what perspective and position you're coming from. Sure, no one's agreed and said "he's right those guys suck", but I doubt anyone's said "well shit, I'm definitely buying this Hell in a Cell show now because Triple H is suuuch a dick!" I've always felt this about Triple H, he gets heat on himself and doesn't do anything for anyone else. Now that he's the main on-screen authority figure, it's becoming a bigger problem to me. As far as Bryan doing his talking in the ring, I can get with seeing it that way, I like that. I think it needs to be emphasized more though, by him and the commentary. I'd like to hear him say that sometime, "you know you guys talk all you want, I don't care at all, becuase I'll do my talking in the ring *mic drop*) and walk away. I also think he needs to be more realistically upset about how things have gone to make him more relatable. He doesn't need to trade worked-shoot barbs with Triple H. But, I don't see any positive in Triple H using said barbs in the first place. Surely there's a better way to get heat on him without doing it at the expense of someone else. It was great for CM Punk because it was novel at the time, and it certainly worked because he became the biggest face in the company (outside of Cena, I guess, even though half the crowd hates him), but at this point it's old hat and it's not doing anyone any favors but Triple H. Even if this does lead to Triple H tapping out to Daniel Bryan...so? Bryan already beat John Cena, the WWE champ in his prime, and it really has not been emphatically put over as much as it should've, because thie whole angle kicked off immediately afterward. Not even CM Punk did that. It would just show us that Triple H, the semi-retired owner of the company who isn't going to be wrestling much going forward, had to make himself the ultimate guy to beat. Some see it as paranoid or HHHate, but everything I see from the guy comes off as self-serving.
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Post by saintpat on Oct 23, 2013 20:40:17 GMT -5
^ Fair enough.
I think there will be a payoff. I think if Bryan had won the title and kept it he'd be defending against Del Rio or whoever (assuming Del Rio didn't have the other belt) and having great matches and ... big deal. He always has great matches. I think -- and I was at a live show (SD taping) last night and saw it in person -- that it's getting more and more sympathy against Bryan because he's up against the ultimate authority.
He beats Orton and, OK, Orton's been beaten before. So what? He beats an entire corrupt power system that has assembled itself to keep him down and he has overcome everything. The average fan will pop more -- kind of like Jeff Hardy's title win meant more because of all his near-misses leading up to it.
And if on top of winning the title Bryan keeps raging against the machine and ends up with a WM moment where Triple H taps out, hey, that's a made-for-life kind of thing.
May not play out that way, but I'd rather have a slow build to that and live with the short-term frustrations than have him get his 3- or 5-month time with the title and then drop it and ... he's just another guy.
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Post by klapaucius on Oct 23, 2013 20:42:58 GMT -5
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Post by wisdomwizard on Oct 23, 2013 20:57:18 GMT -5
No, and neither has it in this angle. Which isn't crap nor has it become crap I can't get tired of matches with The Shield, or anyone for that matter. He was already intense in the beginning of this angle, just because he's not ticked off when someone thinks he should doesn't matter considering how white hot he still is in this.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 23, 2013 21:33:10 GMT -5
has my interest in him waned? hell no. has my interest in the current storyline featuring him, Randy Orton, Triple H/Debbie Downer and, inexplicably, the Big Show waned? oh my god just end it already!
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Oct 23, 2013 22:27:04 GMT -5
I see something different, agree to disagree. If Bryan tries to trade barbs or match wits/promos with HHH, he's going to look weak. Very weak. Much weaker than if he laughs it off. It's like me challenging Mark Henry to an arm-wrestling match -- Bryan couldn't do so and get the better of it no matter how you script it because it's not his thing. His thing is to be an A-plus wrestler in the ring, and I think that's how he's playing it. He doesn't need to tell us he beat Cena and especially doesn't need to tell us he beat Orton -- we know it. And the audience knows we know it, so why say it? He has said if not for HHH he'd be champ right now, which is telling us he's beaten Orton. I think what they're going for, or at least how I view what they're presenting, is that Bryan does his talking in the ring. If Orton and Trips want to talk about it, he'll take care of it in the ring. I also don't see the problem with Triple H saying Jericho and Edge and RVD were popular but not good enough to be 'the guy' -- he's doing a heel promo and the audience loves those guys he's putting down and they boo him for it. It's called getting heat. NO ONE has had the reaction: "Hey, HHH just said those guys weren't good enough. And he said Bryan's not good enough. Dang it, he's right. Those guys suck." It's about as relevant as Punk or anyone else saying HHH wouldn't have amounted to anything if he hadn't married Stephanie. Did the internet explode over that and say, "Punk just invalidated the entire Reign of Terror. He just told us a longtime main eventer wasn't worthy." As I pointed out in another thread, Y2J in his debut promo said the entire locker room was boring and untalented. How is that different? Because HHH is an authority figure? Does anyone think that means someone out there listens to what he says when he cuts a heel promo and take it as if he said it in a board meeting? I think a lot of it comes down to this: if you're in a position of being forever "made" and having all the kayfabe-credibility in the world, your words carry more weight and you're a lot harder to tear down. CM Punk saying Triple H wouldn't be where he was without marrying Stephanie (I don't even remember him saying that to be honest, maybe he implied it?) isn't going to do any harm to Triple H, beacuse he's already held the belt a million times and basically owns the company. Triple H saying Daniel Bryan is too small and is just like other guys who never got to the very top can potentially harm Daniel Bryan. It's all about what perspective and position you're coming from. Sure, no one's agreed and said "he's right those guys suck", but I doubt anyone's said "well shit, I'm definitely buying this Hell in a Cell show now because Triple H is suuuch a dick!" I've always felt this about Triple H, he gets heat on himself and doesn't do anything for anyone else. Now that he's the main on-screen authority figure, it's becoming a bigger problem to me. As far as Bryan doing his talking in the ring, I can get with seeing it that way, I like that. I think it needs to be emphasized more though, by him and the commentary. I'd like to hear him say that sometime, "you know you guys talk all you want, I don't care at all, becuase I'll do my talking in the ring *mic drop*) and walk away. I also think he needs to be more realistically upset about how things have gone to make him more relatable. He doesn't need to trade worked-shoot barbs with Triple H. But, I don't see any positive in Triple H using said barbs in the first place. Surely there's a better way to get heat on him without doing it at the expense of someone else. It was great for CM Punk because it was novel at the time, and it certainly worked because he became the biggest face in the company (outside of Cena, I guess, even though half the crowd hates him), but at this point it's old hat and it's not doing anyone any favors but Triple H. Even if this does lead to Triple H tapping out to Daniel Bryan...so? Bryan already beat John Cena, the WWE champ in his prime, and it really has not been emphatically put over as much as it should've, because thie whole angle kicked off immediately afterward. Not even CM Punk did that. It would just show us that Triple H, the semi-retired owner of the company who isn't going to be wrestling much going forward, had to make himself the ultimate guy to beat. Some see it as paranoid or HHHate, but everything I see from the guy comes off as self-serving. Regarding Bryan's achievements being put over, they've pretty much been doing that, even going so far as to unofficially brand the Busaku Knee "the move that beat John Cena". There's not much more they can do to sell Bryan as a force unless they start plastering HEY LOOK IT'S THE GUY THAT BEAT CENA ISN'T THAT COOL HE KNOCKS OUT PEOPLE LIKE HE KNOCKED OUT CENA YAY CENA KILLER DID YOU KNOW HE BEAT JOHN CENA? all over his titantron. Combined with how he's essentially made Orton and now the Shield his bitches (he's tapped him out, pinned him clean live on PPV, schooled him in dark match after dark match, and at one point beat the guy down and chased him off to the back. The only success Orton's had against Bryan were via sneak attacks and Shield assists), it's very hard right now for me to see how Bryan's postiton can be thought of now as fragile in any sense. He's a made man already, and if he were to tap out HHH at some point, he would be even more established because he tapped out yet another "ultimate guy to beat". There's no downside to building up dragons to feed to Bryan, and I think this story is doing him a lot more favors than having him go on a generic fighting champ reign. He's a force, but he's still a "woobie", you want to see him overcome.
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