salz4life
Grimlock
Prichard is a guy who gets that his job is to service his boss.
Posts: 14,312
|
Post by salz4life on Feb 11, 2019 12:11:24 GMT -5
I don't need the top champ on every week so Lesnar having the title doesn't bother me in that way. It's the fact that he is off for 4-6 weeks at a time and during most of that time, there is barely a mention of the top title on the show. The booking is awful, in my uneducated opinion. I miss long reigns like Lesnar has had, but because they barely mention the Universal Title during most of it.... I just don't care either way.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 12:14:21 GMT -5
I miss long reigns like Lesnar has had. I mean... Why? It's not like he's the only one doing it. AJ had the belt for an eternity, Jinder's reign was fairly lengthy for a first time experimental one, Pete Dunne might've been surgically attached to the UK title, Ciampa's had the belt for seven months with zero sign of losing it any time soon... It's something WWE's been overdoing even not counting him.
|
|
mcstoklasa
Hank Scorpio
Sigs/Avatars cannot exceed 1MB
Posts: 6,961
|
Post by mcstoklasa on Feb 11, 2019 12:18:54 GMT -5
I don't need the top champ on every week so Lesnar having the title doesn't bother me in that way. It's the fact that he is off for 4-6 weeks at a time and during most of that time, there is barely a mention of the top title on the show. The booking is awful, in my uneducated opinion. I miss long reigns like Lesnar has had, but because they barely mention the Universal Title during most of it.... I just don't care either way. I don’t know why they dont film vignettes with Lesnar like Sit down interviews on his ranch and play them on the weeks he isn’t around
|
|
Eunös ✈
Dalek
Duck Feet Expert
Tolerated, just not practically liked.
Posts: 59,295
|
Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 11, 2019 12:24:08 GMT -5
I think I'd sooner see Michael Cole as Universal Champion than keep it on Brock.
|
|
No Longer a Produceman
Dennis Stamp
Will Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse
Evolving into Geckoman
Posts: 4,411
|
Post by No Longer a Produceman on Feb 11, 2019 12:26:53 GMT -5
I want Brock to piss off but not really clamoring for another Seth Rollins reign. So I propose the following acceptable compromise:
At Wrestlemania, Brock comes out waving a UFC flag with Paul Heyman inexplicably dressed as Mr. Fuji.
Rollins gains the upper hand and we get a ref bump. Rollins goes for the Curb Stomp, but gets tripped up by Heyman. Seth confronts Heyman, who throws salt into Seth’s eyes. An F5 later and Brock retains.
Seth climbs out of the ring while Paul Heyman trash talks Seth on the mic. But what’s this?!? Out comes Nia Jax to protest this injustice! She checks on Seth, who is bawling like a 5 yr old at this point. Heyman talks smack to Nia and challenges her to face Brock for the strap right damn now!
Nia looks to Seth, who motions to her to go for it. Nia kisses Seth passionately, then runs into the ring for revenge.
Ref rings the bell and Heyman goes for the salt trick again. Nia ducks, knocks out Heyman with a facebreaker punch, gives Brock 3 facebreakers and a Samoan Drop and pins him for the 1-2-3!
Nia celebrates in the ring as “Real American” booms over the loudspeakers.
|
|
4real
Wade Wilson
Posts: 28,614
Member is Online
|
Post by 4real on Feb 11, 2019 12:29:11 GMT -5
I’m not bothered either way at this point I just want the match to be good. Rollins is great in the ring but character wise has nothing going on.
|
|
|
Post by clodhopper on Feb 11, 2019 12:33:48 GMT -5
Rollins is a weird one - in ring he's miles better as a face than he is as a heel but then character wise it's the complete opposite, dull as a box of spanners as a face but much better as a heel. Consequently, it always feels like part of his game is missing, whichever role he's in. End result is that I can't bring myself to care about him.
Still rather he held the belt than Lesnar though.
|
|
Bub (BLM)
Patti Mayonnaise
advocates duck on rodent violence
Fed. Up.
Posts: 37,742
|
Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 11, 2019 12:48:30 GMT -5
Hell no, especially considering the alternative is Seth Rollins. The only person I'd rather see with the title less than Brock is Baron Corbin.
|
|
msc
Dennis Stamp
Posts: 4,554
|
Post by msc on Feb 11, 2019 13:07:18 GMT -5
About 3/4 of the main roster would kill for Lukewarm Rollins Crowd Reactions tbh.
And I'd even root on Billy Gunn to dethrone Brock at this point.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 13:10:22 GMT -5
About 3/4 of the main roster would kill for Lukewarm Rollins Crowd Reactions tbh.And I'd even root on Billy Gunn to dethrone Brock at this point. Pretty much, yeah. The Dean feud sucked, but the crowd still wanted Rollins over Braun at the Rumble and gave him a big pop the next night. Seth and Finn (as The Demon) are the only right guys for the job right now.
|
|
|
Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Feb 11, 2019 13:33:16 GMT -5
I’ll wear the black hat. I wouldn’t mind if Lesnar retained. I’m not too big on Rollins in all honesty. I actually like that Lesnar rarely defends the title. Staying away makes him feel like more of an attraction when he does show up. It’s kind of like looking forward to a Mike Tyson fight when I was a kid. Lesnar can still go when he wants to or when he has the right opponent. Balor was a good example of that. And I will disagree that Lesnar showing up to defend his belt feels like a big deal. It's not like when Hogan was champion and he didn't defend the belt on tv. Hogan was still the central theme of the show. Via interviews and his feud being recapped. when he's not there the belt doesn't exist. No one mentions him the title, Brock, or anything to the point that I forget that Brock is the champion pretty regularly. Too many wrestlers are over exposed nowadays. That’s why guys like Braun run out of steam relatively quickly. I like Brock being treated like an attraction. He doesn’t need to be like Hogan. He’s fine just being Brock. Besides he’s only had the title again for a little over three months. I can’t complain about it. In fairness, most of the titles don’t mean much anymore. Now that there are basically two top titles again the belts mean even less. I can barely remember who all of the champions even are these days. They rarely build up contenders and push the importance of winning titles and when they do it's usually the same boring formula of someone winning a non title match to earn a title shot. If titles are so important the WWE has a piss poor way of showing it.
|
|
salz4life
Grimlock
Prichard is a guy who gets that his job is to service his boss.
Posts: 14,312
|
Post by salz4life on Feb 11, 2019 13:51:21 GMT -5
I miss long reigns like Lesnar has had. I mean... Why? It's not like he's the only one doing it. AJ had the belt for an eternity, Jinder's reign was fairly lengthy for a first time experimental one, Pete Dunne might've been surgically attached to the UK title, Ciampa's had the belt for seven months with zero sign of losing it any time soon... It's something WWE's been overdoing even not counting him. You have good points.... I just don't like the title changing all the time. I loved Punk's reign. Dunne's reign, IMO, has a lot to do with no one else really being over enough to be champ. Ciampa's reign has been tremendous, IMO (I just love Ciampa... so I could be jaded by that). Jinder was a mistake, in hindsight. I thought it was cool they shocked us with him getting the title, but it just didn't work. I think part of the problem is the titles just don't mean anything anymore. I don't get the feeling that the top titles are "top titles". They feel like just another championship on the show.
|
|
salz4life
Grimlock
Prichard is a guy who gets that his job is to service his boss.
Posts: 14,312
|
Post by salz4life on Feb 11, 2019 13:54:16 GMT -5
I don't need the top champ on every week so Lesnar having the title doesn't bother me in that way. It's the fact that he is off for 4-6 weeks at a time and during most of that time, there is barely a mention of the top title on the show. The booking is awful, in my uneducated opinion. I miss long reigns like Lesnar has had, but because they barely mention the Universal Title during most of it.... I just don't care either way. I don’t know why they dont film vignettes with Lesnar like Sit down interviews on his ranch and play them on the weeks he isn’t around Anything that "reminds us" that he is around. Granted, with it being Wrestlemania season, he's back on TV or being mentioned more often than not.... but in the duldrums of the post Summerslam to Royal Rumble (outside of the couple weeks before Survivor Series), I sometimes forget he's (and in turn the Universal title) are around.
|
|
Shai
Hank Scorpio
Posts: 6,507
|
Post by Shai on Feb 11, 2019 14:05:20 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by cabbageboy on Feb 11, 2019 14:07:01 GMT -5
The problem with Lesnar is that they can't keep putting him over people. It's killing the roster. WWE even knows this for a fact, hence moving the title off AJ to Bryan so that AJ didn't do another job to Lesnar. Or taking Strowman out of the match to avoid another job to Lesnar. The bottom line is that no one should be doing jobs for Lesnar.
That said, would it shock me if Lesnar won at WM? Nah. Even if Rollins wins I doubt he'll be any sort of long term answer. I'd say he'd probably job to McIntyre in fairly quick order.
|
|
Nr1Humanoid
Hank Scorpio
Is the #3 humanoid at best.
Posts: 5,564
Member is Online
|
Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 11, 2019 15:02:35 GMT -5
Hell yes. I love the millions he's milking out of the McMahon's so much.
|
|
ayumidah
Patti Mayonnaise
DOOM TIME!!!!!
Posts: 30,643
|
Post by ayumidah on Feb 11, 2019 15:10:50 GMT -5
I'm ok with Brock but I'm a huge Seth mark, so yeah, I want him to be ok from his back problems and go on to have another successful Wrestlemania.
|
|
|
Post by sportatorium on Feb 11, 2019 15:12:19 GMT -5
Brock doesn’t even want to see Brock retain at Mania
|
|
fw91
Patti Mayonnaise
FAN Idol All-Star: FAN Idol Season X and *Gavel* 2x Judges' Throwdown winner
Tribe has spoken for 2024 Mets
Posts: 39,655
|
Post by fw91 on Feb 11, 2019 16:34:36 GMT -5
No, but I see it happening
|
|
BlackoutCreature
Grimlock
The Ultimate Popcorntunist!
Posts: 14,752
Member is Online
|
Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 11, 2019 18:06:47 GMT -5
Honestly, I'm at the point where if Brock just went home and never appeared or got mentioned on WWE TV again and the Universal Title was just forgotten about, I wouldn't even care.
|
|