Chip
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Post by Chip on Dec 19, 2013 17:57:12 GMT -5
If he won there's nobody at Mania he could wrestle for the title and have any heat behind the match. It's not like Ambrose is gonna win the title in an Elimination Chamber, though this thread just made me realise we will only get one chamber now and that made me sad.
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Post by wallabylikeyou on Dec 19, 2013 18:09:34 GMT -5
People have seemed to accept a supposed Roman Reigns megapush as if it's fact. Well, it's kinda obvious. He was the soul survivor at Survivor Series, eliminating FOUR dudes by himself, and just this past Monday, he pinned CM Punk. Multi-man match or not, WWE ain't stupid. They are not gonna let Punk or Cena get pinned by somebody they aren't planning on strapping a rocket onto.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Dec 19, 2013 18:13:38 GMT -5
I'll point and laugh at everyone who whined that Sheamus is overpushed.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Dec 19, 2013 18:14:54 GMT -5
I give a Reigns superpush one month before everyone's sick of him.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Dec 19, 2013 18:18:06 GMT -5
Well, it's kinda obvious. He was the soul survivor at Survivor Series, eliminating FOUR dudes by himself, and just this past Monday, he pinned CM Punk. Multi-man match or not, WWE ain't stupid. They are not gonna let Punk or Cena get pinned by somebody they aren't planning on strapping a rocket onto. Notice how I used the word "plan." Plans change.
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Post by Bear Skin Rug on Dec 19, 2013 18:21:57 GMT -5
I see him breaking Kane's elimination record. But there's no way Ambrose isn't eliminating him.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Dec 19, 2013 18:26:40 GMT -5
I'll point and laugh at everyone who whined that Sheamus is overpushed. Sheamus isn't overpushed. The problem with Sheamus is that he's actually UNDERpushed, but inversely booked to steamroll over everyone to maintain a sense of "importance"/"relevance" despite being generally directionless.
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Bub (BLM)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Dec 19, 2013 18:34:00 GMT -5
Not going to happen. He's still being protected in tag matches after a year on the main roster. They're going to have him go through some singles seasoning before letting the main event scene rest on his shoulders.
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Post by paywindah on Dec 19, 2013 18:34:19 GMT -5
I'm all for it. Let it happen quick before he becomes yet another victim of Vince's start-stop booking.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Dec 19, 2013 18:43:42 GMT -5
I'll point and laugh at everyone who whined that Sheamus is overpushed. Sheamus isn't overpushed. The problem with Sheamus is that he's actually UNDERpushed, but inversely booked to steamroll over everyone to maintain a sense of "importance"/"relevance" despite being generally directionless. It's roughly the same level the similarly-despised Rey Mysterio's spent years at, where he's made it over the hump into the "guys who actually matter" tier, but at the lower end, so he spends less time interacting with the other main eventers and more time annihilating the guys who are just south of the glass ceiling. Which, since those tend to be the wrestlers smarks adore, leads to him being a prime target for lots and lots of nerdrage.
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Post by Topher is Human on Dec 19, 2013 19:17:13 GMT -5
He ain't gonna win but my predicton is he gets the most eliminations and makes it to the final four with Ambrose, Punk and Bryan.
Ambrose and Reigns work together to "eliminate" Bryan (they hold on to the ropes), Ambrose quickly dumps Reigns to the outside only to get eliminated himself by Punk, leaving Punk and Bryan to finish the match.
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Bub (BLM)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Dec 19, 2013 19:21:14 GMT -5
Sheamus isn't overpushed. The problem with Sheamus is that he's actually UNDERpushed, but inversely booked to steamroll over everyone to maintain a sense of "importance"/"relevance" despite being generally directionless. It's roughly the same level the similarly-despised Rey Mysterio's spent years at, where he's made it over the hump into the "guys who actually matter" tier, but at the lower end, so he spends less time interacting with the other main eventers and more time annihilating the guys who are just south of the glass ceiling. Which, since those tend to be the wrestlers smarks adore, leads to him being a prime target for lots and lots of nerdrage. I never thought of it that way, but you're very right. In the case of Sheamus though, the real hatred came when he turned into a jolly Irish Cena. He got over being a straight-faced ass kicking machine. He was pretty well liked on the internet, too. Then WWE did their classic face turn routine and changed him. I don't know why they do it. Undertaker has always been as no-nonsense as a face can get and he's over as shit. So yeah, Reigns I think would be fine until they turned him into a goofball.
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SEAN CARLESS
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Dec 19, 2013 19:36:29 GMT -5
"Well, he's not going to." *Only a few fellow Observer readers/writers here will get this reference.
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Post by JTG Fan on Dec 19, 2013 19:40:56 GMT -5
I would mark. My body is ready. I for one welcome our new Roman Reigns and Big E. overlords.
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Shazam
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Post by Shazam on Dec 19, 2013 19:45:42 GMT -5
Acrually, I'd be okay with it, and I'm not insanely keen on Reigns.
The Rumble the last couple of years has had factions, The Nexus, Punk's cult, etc. that banded together a group. Why not have the Shield band together during the Rumble, have the last one come out at like 24 or something, and then have them as the last 3 in the ring. They pair off and trade until one gets double teamed by the other two, that one throws the other two out, and that's how they start breaking up the Shield, by that one saying he's better than the others etc. etc.
You win at the Rumble, you have until Mania to be built up as a singles threat. No problem.
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Post by cool guy on Dec 19, 2013 19:50:25 GMT -5
Sheamus isn't overpushed. The problem with Sheamus is that he's actually UNDERpushed, but inversely booked to steamroll over everyone to maintain a sense of "importance"/"relevance" despite being generally directionless. It's roughly the same level the similarly-despised Rey Mysterio's spent years at, where he's made it over the hump into the "guys who actually matter" tier, but at the lower end, so he spends less time interacting with the other main eventers and more time annihilating the guys who are just south of the glass ceiling. Which, since those tend to be the wrestlers smarks adore, leads to him being a prime target for lots and lots of nerdrage. The difference is when Sheamus does it he starts talking, and no one wants that.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 19, 2013 19:50:50 GMT -5
I'm a big fan, and would be ok with it/like it on one level, BUT would also think it's a lil too soon.
Him winning it next year? Aces.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 19, 2013 19:55:36 GMT -5
People have seemed to accept a supposed Roman Reigns megapush as if it's fact. It's more hope for me. Dude can/hopefully will be huge.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Dec 19, 2013 20:40:04 GMT -5
In the case of Sheamus though, the real hatred came when he turned into a jolly Irish Cena. He got over being a straight-faced ass kicking machine. He was pretty well liked on the internet, too. Then WWE did their classic face turn routine and changed him. I don't know why they do it. Undertaker has always been as no-nonsense as a face can get and he's over as shit. So yeah, Reigns I think would be fine until they turned him into a goofball. It's a deeper problem than that, and Sheamus's problems started way before he turned into a goofball. He spent forever as a cowardly heel who everyone knows can't win a fight... even though they're simultaneously playing him up as some huge monster. Then he turned and became a face who can't LOSE a fight, even though he was portrayed as an underdog. You can't tell any stories with characters like these, because they make no sense. Ambrose and Reigns will just be the same backwards story it always is: Loser Heel and Unbeatable Face. It's like Hogan Vs. Andre if there wasn't the slightest bit of suspense that Andre could win clean.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2013 20:44:14 GMT -5
That would be cool and something fresh... so obviously we can't have that. The winner has to be Big Show or ADR. Possibly Sheamus. Or Cena. Maybe Triple H.
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