Kane in the Title match Depreciation Thread

[froggyfrog]

Dec 18, 2017 22:19:53 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Like... Why?!!

Someone has to eat the pin brother

[Ben Wyatt]

Dec 18, 2017 22:27:51 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

Kane pins Lesnar.

Takes off mask, it's Undertaker.

Undertaker vs. Lesnar Wrestlemania XXX rematch in the exact same place Brock ended the streak. And it will main event.

I'll happily take this over the inevitable Brock/Reigns match

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Kane is garbage, I hope he recognizes it every day when he wakes up and looks in the mirror for the rest of his life.

[atgnatpodcast]

The best part is when they tried to make it a big deal that Kane sat up.... 60 seconds after the F5...

All brock needs is 3 seconds

(That’s what sable said)

[msc]

Dec 19, 2017 5:35:15 GMT -5 eJm said:

Dec 19, 2017 4:22:11 GMT -5 msc said:

This thread is coming to the point from the wrong way, imo. Kane should be in the title match. The question is: why is Braun Strowman in the title match, and not kicking seven shades of ass in the Rumble match?

This made me realise actually...Strowman’s Rumble runs haven’t been great.

2016 he was involved in dumping Lesnar out but got suplexed so hard he lost height and 2017, he dumped Henry and Show but was eliminated by the combined night of Sami Zayn, Dean Ambrose and Baron Corbin. Which...well, kind of feels lacklustre compared to the build he had going in.

So I guess if they aren’t going to go out and let him be a killer in the Rumble, it makes sense to have him in the title match.

2016 he did take on the Local Men (at the height of their power) 2 on 1 and crush them both in a minute. And he no sold some of Brock's offence. For someone treated as 4th wheel in the Wyatts at the time, he did OK.

2017 was a surprise - I think they booked themselves into a whole with the early number.


Anyhow, I just remembered: he can lose here and just show up in the Rumble anyway, the Roman Reigns way! I twigged this while out at the shops and muttered it aloud. Guy nearest me looked at me like I was a nutter, clearly not a Braun Strowman fan.

[Mozenrath]

Dec 19, 2017 10:53:24 GMT -5 msc said:

Dec 19, 2017 5:35:15 GMT -5 eJm said:

This made me realise actually...Strowman’s Rumble runs haven’t been great.

2016 he was involved in dumping Lesnar out but got suplexed so hard he lost height and 2017, he dumped Henry and Show but was eliminated by the combined night of Sami Zayn, Dean Ambrose and Baron Corbin. Which...well, kind of feels lacklustre compared to the build he had going in.

So I guess if they aren’t going to go out and let him be a killer in the Rumble, it makes sense to have him in the title match.

2016 he did take on the Local Men (at the height of their power) 2 on 1 and crush them both in a minute. And he no sold some of Brock's offence. For someone treated as 4th wheel in the Wyatts at the time, he did OK.

2017 was a surprise - I think they booked themselves into a whole with the early number.


Anyhow, I just remembered: he can lose here and just show up in the Rumble anyway, the Roman Reigns way! I twigged this while out at the shops and muttered it aloud. Guy nearest me looked at me like I was a nutter, clearly not a Braun Strowman fan.

I remember some people adamantly insisting that Braun was botching or shooting by not selling Brock's initial attacks like death, and that Brock get mad and stiffed him. Considering what we know now, that's silly, but even at the time, that struck me as a bit absurd. It's become even more obvious now, but even then, Brock clearly cared enough about how he was presented and looked to where I find the idea that he'd wrestle a spot with someone he wasn't even passively familiar with unlikely, and if he knew anything at all about Braun, he'd know that the guy no sold Roman and Dean on debuting and obliterated them. Brock's god tier in WWE, but Dean and especially Roman? Not far enough down from Brock to where someone they were trying to get over would go down in one hit. (Yes, yes, 1 F-5 later on, but this being after a Raw had him no sell Suplex City. Brock's willing to give something to Braun, even if most of us would have preferred more.)

[Baby, it’s Jes outside]

Dec 19, 2017 9:47:47 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

Dec 18, 2017 22:19:53 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Like... Why?!!

Someone has to eat the pin brother

#stevieraynwo

[PTBartman]

Dec 18, 2017 22:33:44 GMT -5 Crimson said:

Dec 18, 2017 22:19:53 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Like... Why?!!

To eat the pin instead of Braun.

I mean, logically, that is what should be happening.

Not just logically, but locally