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Post by Starshine on Aug 25, 2020 22:53:13 GMT -5
The whole "looking good in defeat" thing never really has any legs long term if there's no substantial follow up. I recall previously a few people in this very forum saying Ricochet and Cedric Alexander looked good in their respective losses to AJ Styles, but then there was no follow up so it was meaningless, and they quickly become irrelevant. WWE does that so often, after the initial light shove, they just seem to give up any pretense of putting in any more effort, as if the fact they did the bare minimum should be enough.
If Keith is going to be someone, then it's going to become very obvious, very quickly. WWE never ever does subtle pushes, when they're behind someone they will scream at you how amazing they are until your ears bleed. So the fact they're already covering him up is a bad sign out the gate, because that's obviously a Vince hangup, and we know how any little thing can immediately sour him on someone. So I'm not looking at this Orton feud as being designed to push Keith, so much as I believe it's set up so Orton has a big guy to beat before his rematch with Drew. It was the same deal with Charlotte winning the NXT women's belt, it wasn't about giving Io or Rhea a big win down the track, it was about giving Charlotte another moment to hang her hat on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 0:04:43 GMT -5
He’ll be world champion in less than a year. Relax guys.
The gear will probably be gone as soon as Sunday and the music probably won’t go back to the original but maybe their change it up a bit.
It was a hell of a debut and he looked like a star. I look forward to seeing what him and Orton do Sunday. Keith will probably have the match won but Orton will kick him in the nuts and hit an Rko because that’s the only way WWE knows how to book matches.
He’ll probably go on to feud with the Hurt Business and win the US title from Lashley. He’ll lose to Dolph for some reason in a roll up. He’ll then probably win the Rumble and go to Smackdown to Challenge Roman Reigns.
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Post by Evil Homer on Aug 26, 2020 12:45:40 GMT -5
Id love to see Lee win the rumble and take the title at mania next year from a heel Roman
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Post by polarbearpete on Aug 27, 2020 6:13:59 GMT -5
Read that Lee will be getting new music with lyrics Sunday at Payback.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 7:23:00 GMT -5
Read that Lee will be getting new music with lyrics Sunday at Payback. "Let me handle it!" ~ Keith Lee when asked about the possible lyrics
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 7, 2020 21:07:50 GMT -5
For the second time, Drew McIntyre has cost Keith Lee a match via DQ
Only difference is, tonight, Lee got RKO'd and was gonna get pinned and lose, he just got DQ'ed instead because apparently that's "Protecting" his image
I hate main roster booking, also his theme is still f***ing god awful and the same.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 21:08:35 GMT -5
Lee is such an afterthought.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 7, 2020 21:11:39 GMT -5
Lee is such an afterthought. This is why when everyone was saying "Calm down" when he won his match with Orton at Payback, that I just knew better. WWE has no means to keep things consistent There was no reason for Lee to fight Orton and lose to Orton via DQ AGAIN after beating him at Payback. Also Orton was hurt in this match and still would have ended up winning, the way they're booking Lee is such ass.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Sept 7, 2020 22:40:45 GMT -5
1. Move a new talent up from NXT 2. 3. Move that new talent down to Main Event 4. Crop dust Hunter's office after steak wrap and ketchup sundae.
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Post by BatPunk on Sept 7, 2020 22:48:01 GMT -5
Lee will be a member of The Hurt Business soon enough.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 14, 2020 22:10:04 GMT -5
It hasn't even been a month and Keith Lee has been a part of three matches that have gone to non-finishes
I know they're trying to do this to "Protect" him but it's lame, and it doesn't really look good imo when his matches constantly don't have a FINISH for someone who is supposed to be so dominant.
On another note, now he's in a singlet with Suspenders, because having this dude wrestle without a shirt is so f***ing hard apparently...
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Sept 14, 2020 22:11:31 GMT -5
I feel like they keep thinking that they're making him look better with each new attire when they just makes him look worse and fatter.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 14, 2020 22:14:04 GMT -5
I feel like they keep thinking that they're making him look better with each new attire when they just makes him look worse and fatter. His theme is also still garbage I get they don't want to pay CFO$ anymore but all the themes they have made to replace them have all been f***ing dogshit, and Keith's is no exception.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Sept 14, 2020 22:26:02 GMT -5
The booking is starting to get... weird. Like, were they worried that if they put him with midcarders to start with that he was going to get pigeon-holed as one? And let’s not pretend for one f***ing second that A) that midcarder wasn’t going to be Dolph Ziggler and B) that we would be OK with that, because we wouldn’t have been.
So they put him right into the main event, and have him get a clean win over Orton (who’s been killing everybody all year other than McIntyre) on PPV. That’s great. Where do you go from there if you’re not giving him a world title, though? McIntyre’s still a main project of theirs, as indicated by how little HE has lost this year. You can’t keep having him go over Orton. And the other heels like Rollins and Black and Lashley are a mix of being in other programs and being saved for later down the line. Anyone else lower than that, like Andrade or Garza, has no real rub to give.
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Post by Topher is Human on Sept 14, 2020 23:03:29 GMT -5
The booking is starting to get... weird. Like, were they worried that if they put him with midcarders to start with that he was going to get pigeon-holed as one? And let’s not pretend for one f***ing second that A) that midcarder wasn’t going to be Dolph Ziggler and B) that we would be OK with that, because we wouldn’t have been. So they put him right into the main event, and have him get a clean win over Orton (who’s been killing everybody all year other than McIntyre) on PPV. That’s great. Where do you go from there if you’re not giving him a world title, though? McIntyre’s still a main project of theirs, as indicated by how little HE has lost this year. You can’t keep having him go over Orton. And the other heels like Rollins and Black and Lashley are a mix of being in other programs and being saved for later down the line. Anyone else lower than that, like Andrade or Garza, has no real rub to give. They could do Lee vs Andrade/Garza. Beats them both in singles, gets laid out due to numbers game, do a handicap match where they almost beat him and then have him lay both out and win definitively.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 14, 2020 23:40:11 GMT -5
The booking is starting to get... weird. Like, were they worried that if they put him with midcarders to start with that he was going to get pigeon-holed as one? And let’s not pretend for one f***ing second that A) that midcarder wasn’t going to be Dolph Ziggler and B) that we would be OK with that, because we wouldn’t have been.
So they put him right into the main event, and have him get a clean win over Orton (who’s been killing everybody all year other than McIntyre) on PPV. That’s great. Where do you go from there if you’re not giving him a world title, though? McIntyre’s still a main project of theirs, as indicated by how little HE has lost this year. You can’t keep having him go over Orton. And the other heels like Rollins and Black and Lashley are a mix of being in other programs and being saved for later down the line. Anyone else lower than that, like Andrade or Garza, has no real rub to give. This is when you remember Lee had a long plodding match that no one really liked with Ziggler just a few weeks ago in the Payback Qualifier, so you were pretty much correct and despite hanging around the main event talent he STILL found his way to Ziggler, it's incredible. At this point it just feels like Lee shouldn't have been called up, because with all the Non-Decisions it feels like they want to protect him and don't want to pull any sort of trigger. Stuff like that has never worked, and won't work this time either, it just kills his interest and aura NXT worked so hard to make possible.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 21, 2020 20:06:15 GMT -5
They did Keith Lee vs McIntyre again, because why not? Why not book Lee into an impossible situation again?
The result? Lee gets hit with a Claymore, and then Orton DQ's McIntyre so Lee is "Protected", except he isn't, for the second time in a month he is laid out with a finisher, and would have lost if not for some bullshit
Oh and for good measure Orton Punt Kicked him to lay him out post match. So if anyone is still confident Keith Lee is gonna be used right on the main roster? That died right here, they can't make new stars, they refuse to.
Also his singlet is f***ing trash.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Sept 21, 2020 20:29:50 GMT -5
This seems way emblematic of their booking style and how that has spiralled into unsustainability and not of any particular opinion against Lee as a talent. Like, I feel like he’s in this position where he’s always fighting McIntyre or Orton BECAUSE they value him, otherwise he’d be “slumming it” in the midcard (even though there he’d actually be getting wins), right?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 20:53:48 GMT -5
I don't care if he beat Orton clean.
As soon as he started wearing a fat shirt, his credibility went to zero.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 21, 2020 21:41:56 GMT -5
This seems way emblematic of their booking style and how that has spiralled into unsustainability and not of any particular opinion against Lee as a talent. Like, I feel like he’s in this position where he’s always fighting McIntyre or Orton BECAUSE they value him, otherwise he’d be “slumming it” in the midcard (even though there he’d actually be getting wins), right? They're booking themselves into unwinnable situations. I don't know if I'd want Lee slumming it in the midcard but it feels like he's heading there anyway because this McIntyre/Orton feud isn't going to end. It feels like they called Lee up for no reason and no plan, he's basically just been there, not only there, but presented much worse with a bad theme and look to match... and just to remind everyone, Vince LIKES Lee... this is what happens when he likes you anymore.
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