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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 7, 2019 18:19:43 GMT -5
Jeff Hardy winning the IC title because Umaga kicked out too late That was a planned title change, Umaga was beginning a wellness policy suspension and they needed to get the title off of him. Yeah but there's about 80 trillion ways to book that that don't make Jeff look like a fluke merchant and Umaga look like a dumbass. Why not just have him win an extreme rules match or something?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2019 18:21:24 GMT -5
Sheamus cashing in MITB on Reigns. Yeah I get people hated Roman but who the f*** wanted to see Sheamus as WWE Champion again? That reign killed his main event spot dead. That was bad, but I would argue that this one....... .....was worse. Well, it certainly was for Sheamus, though Daniel Bryan probably would have gotten just as over without it eventually.
In cheap-shotting Bryan, Sheamus looked like an absolute bellend, even more so when he wore the 18 SECONDS shirt the following weeks. It also denied fans of a close contest between the two, and started a trend of The Celtic Warrior to look like a total wanker in his feuds (Alberto Del Rio, Wade Barrett, Mark Henry, Damien Sandow). It also robbed fans of a chance to see these two at 'mania after their match the previous year became a battle royale.
The thing about that one is that it could have worked if the build had been all about Bryan constantly ducking Sheamus and causing issues for him, but it wasn't. The build was Bryan focused entirely on Punk and AJ with Sheamus occasionally showing up to kick him in the face. What baffles me about the whole matter is if you really needed to have a flash pin on the show, it should have been Cody / Big Show. Cody completely had that coming with the build they were doing there.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 7, 2019 18:35:41 GMT -5
That was a planned title change, Umaga was beginning a wellness policy suspension and they needed to get the title off of him. Yeah but there's about 80 trillion ways to book that that don't make Jeff look like a fluke merchant and Umaga look like a dumbass. Why not just have him win an extreme rules match or something? Making Umaga look like a dumbass was probably the point given he failed a drug test, and Hardy looking like a fluke merchant was just collateral damage.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 7, 2019 18:55:42 GMT -5
Smiley charismatic Jack Swagger winning the World Title and looking like this... And then the very next segment on the show was this. They turned two guys SRS in back to back segments.
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 7, 2019 20:29:18 GMT -5
Smiley charismatic Jack Swagger winning the World Title and looking like this... And then the very next segment on the show was this. They turned two guys SRS in back to back segments. This is why I don't want Big E to turn heel again, because it would be just like that knowing WWE's track record.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 8, 2019 3:24:48 GMT -5
And then the very next segment on the show was this. They turned two guys SRS in back to back segments. This is why I don't want Big E to turn heel again, because it would be just like that knowing WWE's track record. What, you aren't ready for E to switch to regular trunks, a shaved head, and a repetitive rap beat that plays every 5 minutes in WWE 2K21?
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 8, 2019 4:53:13 GMT -5
Yeah but there's about 80 trillion ways to book that that don't make Jeff look like a fluke merchant and Umaga look like a dumbass. Why not just have him win an extreme rules match or something? Making Umaga look like a dumbass was probably the point given he failed a drug test, and Hardy looking like a fluke merchant was just collateral damage. I think it was supposed to protect Umaga and look like he *JUST* missed kicking out in time, that Jeff only barely put him away. Jeff Hardy even by then was fine in that he was over as hell, and the Hardyz have always been kind of teflon like that. These are guys who in 2000 could beat Edge and Christian, but also lose to D'lo and Chaz as Lo Down, and both results were just kind of accepted.
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