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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Dec 29, 2014 12:30:10 GMT -5
Make him the new Phantasio and have him pull old title belts out of his armpits.
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Post by gnr123 on Dec 29, 2014 12:40:08 GMT -5
I don't understand how that works. Age doesn't change the fact that you're not going to accept every superstar that gets shoved in your face. Even as a child watching the WWE, there were plenty of superstars I just didn't like. Even then, as a kid, you still cheered the most popular guys. You hated heels, you cheered babyfaces. If you say "when I was six, I only cheered technical wizards and X-Division guys and I was still cheering all the heels who had good workratez!"...no. No you weren't. You were a Hulkamaniac growing up and if you say otherwise you're a goddamned liar. Just like the little kids of this era are John Cena fans until they turn 13, get to use the Internet without problem, and turn on Cena because that way they look cool to the people on these sites, and why people want to turn on the "next" one before they become the next one. Because the "next one" is clearly not ready to be at the top. Whether it's promo skills, in-ring work, selling, you name it, Reign's just isn't ready. Sure, he's over, but so was Daniel Bryan last year. Did he win the Rumble? It's being cynical, it's more of seeing it in front of you. I say it as a Reigns fan, but he's clearly not ready to be "the guy" for the company. Give him a year or two, maybe. Now, it's WAY to early. As for your post, everyone is different. I was a huge fan of villains when I was little, so I immediately like Kane when I first started watching in 2003, even though he was this sadistic nutcase, I was more of a fan of him than I was Shane O'Mac. I was happy when Edge won MITB in 2005, I became a Triple H fan in 2005, I was happy when Edge won the WWE Championship in early '06, even though I liked Cena as well.
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Post by Reflecto on Dec 29, 2014 13:47:49 GMT -5
Even then, as a kid, you still cheered the most popular guys. You hated heels, you cheered babyfaces. If you say "when I was six, I only cheered technical wizards and X-Division guys and I was still cheering all the heels who had good workratez!"...no. No you weren't. You were a Hulkamaniac growing up and if you say otherwise you're a goddamned liar. Just like the little kids of this era are John Cena fans until they turn 13, get to use the Internet without problem, and turn on Cena because that way they look cool to the people on these sites, and why people want to turn on the "next" one before they become the next one. Because the "next one" is clearly not ready to be at the top. Whether it's promo skills, in-ring work, selling, you name it, Reign's just isn't ready. Sure, he's over, but so was Daniel Bryan last year. Did he win the Rumble? It's being cynical, it's more of seeing it in front of you. I say it as a Reigns fan, but he's clearly not ready to be "the guy" for the company. Give him a year or two, maybe. Now, it's WAY to early. And that's also the whole point with Reigns. He's the "next one", but he needs a couple more years of seasoning. If he was held off until Wrestlemania 32 or 33, he'd be ready...but Brock Lesnar is the spanner in the works here. Lesnar, as it stands, is THE biggest scalp possible, and the ONLY person in the WWE which has a chance to say "If you beat him, you're INSTANTLY MADE." Once he beat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania, it became clear- you beat Lesnar, you're made, and because his contract expires after Mania and he's likely not coming back- you only get ONE SHOT at giving someone Brock Lesnar's scalp, so you cannot get cute with it. You cannot hold this back and give it to John Cena or Randy Orton (and, by the way- if you go with holding Reigns off, we all have to know John Cena's going to be the man to beat Lesnar at Mania and honestly no one else would make any sense), because if they're "The Man Who Beat Brock Lesnar", it won't do them any favors when they turn around and lose to someone any more than beating Cena or Orton already would. You have to give it to someone underneath the top guys- and if you make someone who is not in the Orton/Cena/HHH/Undertaker/Rock/Sting level the Beastslayer, you had BETTER make it COUNT. If there was a guarantee Brock Lesnar will be around after Mania 31, then waiting on Reigns would work for Wrestlemania 32 or 33. With Lesnar not around after Wrestlemania- you kind of have to take a leap of faith on someone who's a year away from being completely ready, but is almost a formality to be the man who will take WWE into the 2020s, than someone who is more polished now, but isn't guaranteed to be that man to take WWE into the 2020s (and all the other possibilities: Bryan, Ziggler, Ambrose) aren't lead-pipe cinches for that spot.)
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