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Lol WWE you can't have Bryan face Shaemus at WM after last night's reactions
Money. Plain and simple. That makes money.You will honestly twist anybody's words to suit your argument won't you?
Dean Ambrose winning the Rumble wasn't even my point, at all, but I'll bite.
He main evented those two shows, true. But it's obvious that WWE didn't want the focus to be on him. In Hell in a Cell, he got distracted at the end by Wyatt and lost to one of Wyatt's signature moves. Not his finisher, his signature. Nobody loses to people's signature moves. At TLC, he lost to an exploding TV. Name me another main event wrestler that would lose to an exploding TV? Or to a hologram?
He is an afterthought at the moment for WWE. He's the guy where they think "Hey let's send Ambrose out now, he'll get a good pop." Honestly, apart from TLC, Hell in a Cell, and his ambulance match, tell me one segment he was involved in in the past 3 months that wasn't absolutely ridiculous.
As for why he should have won it, or at least he was a possibility, they could have repaired the damage. Make him go absolutely crazy. And not funny crazy, but serial killer crazy. Have him bring charis in and start killing people, tossing people over the top rope at will. Have him win the whole damn thing, and cut promos about how Brock is a monster, but he's not afraid of monsters. He's fought monsters before and he's come out on top and Brock is just another guy in front of him that he needs to chop down to get to the top.
Have a crazy match at WM. No holds barred, just go all out. Ambrose wins. Rollins comes out, curb stomp, cash in. Rollins/Ambrose feud continues, now for the title.
I thought the majority view was that we just didn't want Reigns, and not because we don't like Reigns. It's that we don't want to be told "Here is the new man. Cheer him dammit!" It was poor how the crowd turned, but chuck Wyatt or Ambrose for example. as the winner and the crowd would have been fine. It was also the ending that was a massive problem. Send out the two guys hated by everyone because nobody wants to see them, get them eliminated by the guy they want to succeed. Then bring out one of the greatest wrestlers to put him over, which was pure desperation.Some of the comment here are pretty funny. You think Reigns is being shoved down our throats yet you wanted the exact same ending to wrestlemania that we got last year? Surely people can't be that oblivious to the hypocrisy.
Despite not wanting Roman to win, i'm not fussed, and kind of happy, that Bryan didn't win it. We saw his whole "road to redemption" story last year. I like seeing something fresh. I know this year it would have been a bit different coming off an injury and getting the title he never lost back, but still, a chance for something new will always sit right with me at least a little bit.
I hated the crowd reaction. Hated it. What, are we never going to have a Rumble winner people will be happy with unless Bryan wins one first?
Of course, that's not taking into account the incredibly stuffed up Big Show and Kane scenario that happened, which was the worst thing about the whole show.
I hope Reigns proves a lot of people wrong and has an awesome feud with Lesnar. I think it'll all end with Rollins as champ at the end of the day anyway, which will be awesome, but a "sink or swim" kind of deal with a guy like Reigns who a lot of people deem not ready, who obviously already works hard, has a good chance of being pulled off well, imo.
You Feel for Reigns. He has done nothing wrong and I also hope he sticks it up the Fans BackSides to show how good he can be
They used to wait until the DVD release Reigns will get a thunderous reception on every SmackDownLmao, go back and watch the end of the rumble on the network, especially when Rock puts up Romans hands. They have removed the boos.
Imagine the difference in the crowd reaction if you had Reigns, Wyatt, Ambrose/Ziggler and Rusev first working together to take out Kane and Show, and then each taking up a corner for a final, tension-building stare-off before bringing the thing to a close. At least this way you actually give Reigns a shot to prove himself against the best young talent in the business and win the crowd over, you also give these other guys a chance to shine, and there's at lease SOME tension that perhaps it might not go to script.They never should have had it be Kane and Big Show in the end, would have been way better if it was Reigns, Ambrose, Wyatt and Ziggler or maybe sub one of them for Rusev. At least then you could've had a small amount of belief that another outcome was possible. With Reigns, Show and Kane the ending was completely obvious. WWE/wrestling is at its best when there are surprises and "anything can happen" mentality, when things are obvious and telegraphed they'll get s**t on as they should be.
Who says they're going to?
Well if Meltzer said so it must be true.Dave Meltzer. The plan, at least before the Rumble, was to turn Sheamus heel so they could face off at Wrestlemania.
I'll never forget New Day's debut on Smackdown. The "roar" from the crowd was immense, you'd swear Austin had come out of retirement.The rumble replay on the network actually edits the end so that fans are booing the Authority coming out. Orwellian editing at its finest.
I'll say it again, the crowd had every right to s**t on the rumble match, what was worse that there wasn't a whole lot of 'rioting' as there was apathy. It wasn't so much what they did but how they went about it.
Didn't bother me that Bryan was eliminated but surely its an awesome opportunity to get a young heel over with some heat with the crowd, like BNB? Or even a heel returning Orton to 'get revenge' from last year leading to a match at WM31? I honestly can't remember how he was eliminated.
And the casual meek elimination by two over the hill guys that although good servants got nothing out of an elimination the way they did?
Feel sorry for Reigns too, I hope the E don't give up on him if it turns to s**t, but there was no shock value, no cool swerve. It was poor lazy and just spiteful booking to stick it up the hardcore fans because at the end of the day the youngins will only remember the finish.
That being said, the direction NXT is going, gives me hope that guys Rollins, Zayn, Bryan and Itami/Kenta will be norm when Trips truly takes over.
Vince is just like that s**t coach that was once good but you want to see the prick sacked as you hold him responsible for the thing you love that you know can be run better, just need to be patient.