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posted on 1-7-2016 at 05:27 AM Edit Post
Agreed. The main spot where they fucked up last year was bringing Bryan back in January, having him promise to win the Rumble and all that and then get tossed early and unceremoniously, as if he was no more important than Fandango.

You can bring him back without fucking over Roman if you don't tease that you're going to give them main event Bryan only to yank it away. Just wait until after the Rumble (after Fastlane might be better, but DEFINITELY not before the Rumble), and have him show up during, say, a Kevin Owens promo, talk about how he never lost the title, he was on a mission to restore the belt to its former glory etc etc, and you can set up something like a Bryan/Owens match that will kick all kinds of ass, have the crowd behind it and probably satisfied.

Of course, if WWE didn't have its head up its ass for most of the last decade when it cakes to keeping guys strong, you could have (barring injuries) Ziggler, Owens, Bray, Cesaro, Rusev, Sheamus, Barrett and more, hell maybe even a Luke Harper or a Ryback (I know he's not popular around these parts, but another example of a guy who was super over, only to have his legs cut out when he ran into Cena) ready to seamlessly slide into those upper-midcard/main event spots. They could still put those guys in those spots, but there's a good chance it will come across as forced and unnatural, which will hurt the crowd's acceptance/response.





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posted on 1-7-2016 at 05:54 AM Edit Post
Hoping to see Samoa Joe and AJ Styles (who apparently has signed up) on the main roster soon.
With Cena gone due to injury, those two can put on two great Wrestlemania matches with the right opponents





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posted on 1-7-2016 at 02:26 PM Edit Post
Is 31 as unlucky as 13... now everyone that was a title holder at the end of WM31 is out injured. Maybe Nikki can rehab and maybe Bryan can get cleared.

With Cena out they really could use Bryan or Rock in a match. Maybe just use Bryan in a one-off retirement match against HHH if they still cautious about his health. They could hype it but then wrestle a 'safe' match. Of course, it'd be all the better if they could get HBK to do it.

Who could UT face now? Brock and HHH feuds have been run into the ground. I don't think Reigns or Bryan would be what they'd want to do. Rock?(but if he's wrestling HHH might want him as an oppoennt? Strowman? Alberto? Jericho? Owens? Sheamus? ....or Balor, Joe, Styles or Nakamura? Those last few might be dream matches but they'd have to be pushed really hard immediately from the Rumble forward.... all quickly leading to them likely jobbing at WM. Might be a waste.

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posted on 1-7-2016 at 09:31 PM Edit Post
Here's a bit of Rumble related newz:

* Reportedly, Kurt Angle's contract with TNA runs out the Friday before the Royal Rumble, and there have been informal communications about Angle being a surprise entrant in the match. Angle has said he is "winding down" his wrestling career, but that he "wouldn't rule out" a return to the WWE.





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posted on 1-8-2016 at 12:43 AM Edit Post
Another injury rumor. Sasha Banks is out with an undisclosed injury.





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posted on 1-8-2016 at 02:11 AM Edit Post
Now Bryan is just adding a bit more to the fire with this tweet.''Can @WWE clear me already?!!!''
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posted on 1-8-2016 at 05:52 AM Edit Post
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Rick, it's 2016. It's time to stop with the idea that no one follows wrestling outside WWE.


Dev, it's 2016. That statement is more true now than it's ever been, as far as American fans go. Even TNA has gone from a vaguely relevant niche alternative with an audience about one-quarter of WWE's to.... whatever it is you want to call 250,000 people watching your heavily hyped live debut on a new network. Right now, there's no reason to expect an average, regular wrestling fan to be all that well versed in anything outside of WWE that isn't NXT.

Granted, it's also 2016, and more information is more readily available to more people, but that's a hell of a different thing than any significant percentage of wrestling viewers being fully engaged by ROH or NJ to the point that "The Bullet Club" really means anything other than "that AJ Styles guy from TNA and a few other dudes."

I'll agree that if you pick the right audience/venue, AJ Styles would get a pop. If you do introductory vignettes and basically force the normal everyday wrestling audience to look it up, you might even create some buzz for them coming in as a faction. Maybe. But even that admission on my part requires picking the "right" spot, a "smart" town (e.g. "the NXT factor"), which is already a subset of the universe of American wrestling fans who attend shows/tapings ("how audiences react in Tupelo").

And even THAT is an even smaller subset of the however many millions are out there who just assume all wrestling is WWE, and vice versa. It's 2016, and they've now had fully 15 years to build up that narrative with anyone who isn't going out of their way and trying extra hard to fight it.


My point is people know who AJ Styles is and at worst, they've heard of NJPW and The Bullet Club.


"Heard of" and "care about" are two wildly different things. You'd be hard-pressed to find too many Americans who haven't heard of this new Star Wars thingie. And yet, for every one person who's seen the movie, there are still about 8 who haven't (possibly more; 42% of people who have seen it have seen it multiple times, but there's no hard data on how many have seen it twice versus 15 times). If the Bullet Club debuts and 1 out of the 8 fans who have HEARD OF them pop, does it really make a sound? To say nothing of whatever percentage of fans haven't?

None of this is to say there's something wrong with being a fan of non-WWE wrestling, and trying to advocate for it, or whatever... as always, when I say this stuff, it's not like it's a personal attack. There is good stuff out there, and if the Bullet Club came to WWE, you'd basically have 2 of WWE top 5 workers who are rookies. And if you wish that the mainstream, when exposed to this goodnesss, will accept it, that's OK, too.

But it seems like too many of the hardcore indie type fans have this mindset of "Well, we decided it was good, so just put it out there and everybody else will instantly like it, too, because we said so." And that's just as demonstrably false as the Vince/Dunn mindset of picking what THEY like and pushing it hard. Things have to packaged and presented with the audience in mind. Not YOU (whether "you" is you, Dev, or if "you" is Vince), but the vastness that is US.

If it's good, chances are better it'll catch on. But even then, CM Punk needed 18 months before he got his mainstream buy-in against Hardy (and that's giving him the benefit of NOT counting his time in "ECW"), and Bryan was about on the same timetable (again, not counting "NXT"). Both had to put in the time, and both had the benefit of MitB, too, which is a pretty useful hook. So anytime I see this groupthink where it's perfectly reasonable for AJ Styles to win the Royal Rumble or otherwise participate in a WM Main Event, I get understandly perturbed. Because Punk and Bryan are more accurate comps for AJ Styles than, say, 2012 Brock Lesnar or whatever people are thinking....




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posted on 1-8-2016 at 11:39 PM Edit Post
* the injury wave continues with the gals now, with Paige and Dana Brooke rumoured (along with the already mentioned Sasha Banks) to be hurting as well as Nattie being confirmed to have been rehabbing and injury from back in November





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posted on 1-9-2016 at 02:00 AM Edit Post
Storm interview on heading back to TNA...

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posted on 1-9-2016 at 05:23 AM Edit Post
Re the New Japan thing: The Shield got no reaction on their debut. Things worked out pretty well for them.





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Not sure what part of the overall discussion this is in response to, so apologies if where I think you were going with this is off from what you intended.

I don't think anyone here doesn't see some sort of upside from all this. No one (to my knowledge) has said "this will fall flat and go nowhere at all ever". There is potential for WWE to totally fuck it up (that Balor club thing is a nice example of what that could look like), but that's in WWE's hands.

The debate has been around what degree of insta-pop these guys will get on their debut, ranging from "OMG YOU COULD PUT STYLES IN THE RUMBLE AS SURPRISE ENTRANT AND THE ROOF WILL BLOW OFF WHEN HE COMES OUT AND THEN HE WINS AND GOES ON TO MAIN EVENT WM AND IT'S THE BIGGEST WM EVER NOW" (or something)....to "maybe 10-20% of people recognize him/them out the gate..."


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I'm 100% positive AJ will get a good reaction if he debuts at the Rumble (maybe not "roof blowing off" good but good by WWE standards). Same for Samoa Joe. It's just how big of a deal WWE makes it that plays into it. The benefit to debuting either guy at the Rumble (and, really, this would be a prime time to throw in the phrase "as opposed to the debut of the Shield where the live audience had no idea what was going on") is that the Titantron is going to display the name of the entrant. That way, the fans at the Rumble who don't immediately recognize them by appearance will recognize them by name (whereas with the Shield debut, you had three guys wearing gear none of them wore in NXT, so the only people this was made a big deal to was the viewing audience). And, with the job WWE.com has done of hyping both guys, I would say what little portion of the audience that attends a Big Four PPV and isn't at least somewhat informed is going to be aware of who these guys are and will fall in line. At that point in time, it's up to Cole and JBL to make a big deal out of them being on WWE TV, which informs the portion of the Network viewing audience that is uniformed (which, at the very least, they are good at that), and then you've got foundations laid for a good start to the run (which WWE will inevitably blow because that's kind of their thing).





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posted on 1-9-2016 at 08:22 PM Edit Post
Conversely:

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posted on 1-9-2016 at 09:17 PM Edit Post
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So anytime I see this groupthink where it's perfectly reasonable for AJ Styles to win the Royal Rumble or otherwise participate in a WM Main Event, I get understandly perturbed.


I agree with this, I really do... because as much as I personally would love to see AJ Styles come in and tear the house down and win the championship in a truly "holy fucking shit" moment, I realize how unrealistic that is for the WWE as a company to do. Casual fans, kids, etc. would just sit there wondering what the hell happened, and it may not get the reaction they want.

But at the same time... I feel like they have to do something crazy this year with the Rumble, and a scenario like that (or similar) would at least be enough to generate some buzz, and interest in the product that has been extremely lacking lately. Maybe draw some eyeballs back to Raw the next night that haven't been watching in a while because the product has been so painfully dull.

Plus I a title change at the Rumble is doable since the person who wins doesn't necessarily have to walk into Mania as the champion. And the person who wins also wouldn't have to be made into Roman's bitch since they could pull a "haha Roman, you lost, fuck your rematch clause" story with Vince/HHH.

The last two Rumbles have been total fucking thuds. And if the plan this year is for the most obvious outcome-- which is for Roman to overcome the odds-- that'll get ugly again fast. If it gets to a final six or seven, and Reigns is one of them, people are gonna see the writing on the wall and boo the hell out of him yet again.





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The last two Rumbles have been total fucking thuds. And if the plan this year is for the most obvious outcome-- which is for Roman to overcome the odds-- that'll get ugly again fast. If it gets to a final six or seven, and Reigns is one of them, people are gonna see the writing on the wall and boo the hell out of him yet again.


Well, that would be dumb. He's going to be one of the final six or seven, probably at the very least one of the Final Four. Whether they actually go with the storyline of Roman overcoming all the odds and somehow retaining the title, they're going to at least tease that through the match itself. The only alternative is HHH absolutely destroying him with a sledgehammer before he even makes it to the ring (which could work, but I don't see it for whatever reason).

I think Brock is still the favorite to win it all, honestly, with Reigns having to go through HHH at Fastlane to get his rematch at WM.

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posted on 1-9-2016 at 11:23 PM Edit Post
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The debate has been around what degree of insta-pop these guys will get on their debut, ranging from "OMG YOU COULD PUT STYLES IN THE RUMBLE AS SURPRISE ENTRANT AND THE ROOF WILL BLOW OFF WHEN HE COMES OUT AND THEN HE WINS AND GOES ON TO MAIN EVENT WM AND IT'S THE BIGGEST WM EVER NOW" (or something)....to "maybe 10-20% of people recognize him/them out the gate..."


Factors that work in AJ's favor if he's a surprise Rumble entrant:

1) The Rumble is in Orlando, where's he's done the majority of his work in America over the last decade.

2) The Rumble, like Wrestlemania but not to the same extent, tends to draw a "smarter" crowd that will likely mean he's recognized by a larger portion of the audience than at any random Raw.

Working against AJ:

1) He hasn't been on real national TV (other than Ring of Honor's cup of coffee with Destination America) in over two years.

2) The rumor buzz around him has gotten so loud that it could take a lot off of the 'surprise' factor. Frankly at this point it seems like short of something happening like RoH or NJPW announcing that they've re-signed him, it'll be more of a surprise if he's not in the Rumble.

If/when he shows up at the Rumble, I expect him to get a good pop from the crowd. Not a Mankind's first title win/Jericho debut pop, but a good respectable pop from a crowd where he'll be recognized by at least half the crowd. And if the announcers go out of their way to put over how good he is (as in, Michael Cole cannot go into Daniel-Bryan-in-NXT mode talking about how AJ is just some loser who wrestles in high school gyms and is loved by internet nerds), they could have themselves a superstar in short order.

And as far as their names go, I know WWE always wants to own everyone's names, and in the rest of their cases a name change would be fine (Gallows could just go back to being Luke again, unless two Lukes would be too confusing to us simpletons), but they made an exception for Samoa Joe, and it feels like they kinda have to make another one for AJ. Tattoo aside, he's a guy who's just made too big of a name in this country to change it.





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As someone who has not seen AJ wrestle at all, can someone explain how AJ coming in, debuting at the Rumble and walking out the champion is not worse than rushing the title on Reigns, who was on NXT and with Shield for months, yet was blasted as being rushed?

Not to mention piss off the rest of the roster that has been busting ass on the lower/mid card trying to move up.





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A.) I would be a truly shocking moment that would bring back the "anything can happen" stuff they've been pushing forever, but hasn't happened in just as long.

B.) Saying AJ Styles is a better wrestler than Roman Reigns is like saying Jupiter is bigger than a pea. Plus, this isn't some guy who has only been wrestling for two or three years. Unlike some people.

C.) It wouldn't be forever. Hell, he could lose it the next night on Raw even. Not like he would be pushed as the supposed face of the company, nor would anyone expect him to be. BUT it would be a neat moment to draw viewers in.

Like I said, I don't think in a million years it would happen, but this company has been losing viewership, and has had two shitty prior Rumble outcomes. They need to have the stones to try something once in a while.

Doesn't even need to be AJ... although what a way to induce him to the WWE crowd. But they've gotta do SOMETHING interesting this year with the Rumble.

Personally, I've always wished someone completely unexpected would win it. Doesn't have to be a complete jobber or anything, but someone you don't see coming at all. It's always so damn telegraphed to death... there's never any doubt which guy (or maybe a toss up between two) will win it.





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As someone who has not seen AJ wrestle at all, can someone explain how AJ coming in, debuting at the Rumble and walking out the champion is not worse than rushing the title on Reigns, who was on NXT and with Shield for months, yet was blasted as being rushed?



Well, it's a bad idea regardless, but AJ has been wrestling since the late 90's, honing his craft all around the world, obtained exposure with a company that, at the time, was a nationally televised #2 to WWE (he's actually done that twice: WCW and TNA), and was able to develop the ability to connect with a television audience (albeit one lower than WWE) in multiple variations of character (from regular babyface to goofy heel sidekick to lovable tweener-sidekick to broody tweener loner).

Reigns, on the other hand, has been in the game for five years, all under variations of the WWE banner, graduating from NXT to the Shield in WWE with the tag "Green, but he could be good on his own someday", left the Shield without actually developing any real character other than "the group's tough guy that prefers to speak with his actions rather than words", was on the cusp of starting to develop a personality before being derailed by injury for a good chunk of his first year as a single's star, before returning and, without so much as a match under his belt since said return, was hailed as the "Best Wrestler of the Year" by WWE, hyped up to win and then won a main event he wasn't ready to win, either with his lack of move set or character, was put against and over an opponent with the skillset to make anyone look good and that everyone WANTED to see win that main event in the next PPV main event (Daniel Bryan) in a match that wasn't even slightly memorable other than the fact WWE just expected everyone would buy into him after that, had such a poor reaction leading up to the Wrestlemania main event that they seemed to call an audible the day of to give the title to an option both WWE and the fans could actually work with (Seth Rollins), and then appeared to spend the remainder of the year kind of adding to his moveset (I noticed the multiple T-Bone suplex thing....that's about it) to have matches that I would consider to be "passable", not really fleshing out a character, but still being treated as the future of the business.

It doesn't make AJ a better option, giving him a title on day one of his WWE tenure is a horrible idea that would backfire in the worst way, but Roman Reigns' tenure hasn't exactly been that much of a better idea. It's on WWE that that's where we are, since the best option would be to let two established guys fight for the title while Reigns feuded with someone else, but since WWE has opted to neuter most of their new projects in favor of building the Cena and Orton brands, that's what happens when you only have three guys that have an audience connection and they all get hurt at once.





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posted on 1-10-2016 at 02:06 AM Edit Post
Yeah, for the pop that AJ *might* get at the Rumble, putting the title on him day 1 would be a bad, bad idea. But he will be recognized by a sizable portion of the audience, and there will probably be many more who have heard the name "AJ Styles" but haven't seen him, and if you send him out there and give him a chance to show what he can do, eliminate a few guys and look really strong before getting tossed out, you could create an upper-tier superstar overnight.

And yes, there are a lot of midcarders who are capable and have been working their ass off for that kind of spot, but sadly WWE has made it clear for many of them that they simply don't see them at that level. And booking them in kind has left several of them as kinda scorched earth, where even if WWE suddenly decided they loved them and pushed them to the moon, a lot of the audience wouldn't buy it and would just be waiting for John Cena to come back and put them in their place.





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I think WWE is just concered about owning the name more than anything, so if they felt AJ Styles was good enough, they'd probably just change it to AJ Stiles or something.

I feel Reigns is losing for the same reason he got cashed in by Sheamus. They'd be nothing left for him to do afterwards. Wins Rumble, beats HHH at Fastlane, beats Lesnar at Mania, then what? It's like when Cena would drop the Title to guys like Sheamus and Del Rio. He had cleared out all the worthwhile opposition so they'd have hin drop it while protecting him to let him feud with part-timers and special attractions. In the mean time they set up a whole new group of heels for him to decimate later on.

The only option left is turning Ambrose and I mean come on, the Main Event face side is already thin.

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The problem for WWE with bringing Bryan back now is that they have been holding off so long, that if he comes back now and *does* get badly injured, they will be accused of having him wrestle when it wasn't safe.

On the Bullet Club thing - sure, a hell of a lot of wrestling fans now know about NJPW and The Bullet Club, but until the last few days, would any casual fan have been able to name a member other than possibly Styles?

AJ to main roster, the rest to NXT to form the Balor Club, and you have a nice setup for the future when they come up to either beatdown or join Styles.

There may be a lack of depth on the main roster but plenty of NXT folks to fill that gap while the new guys adjust and get over in NXT.

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posted on 1-10-2016 at 09:35 PM Edit Post
Well that would be cool. Speaking of things that have been spinning their fucking wheels the past three years, that would at least be SOMETHING interesting for the Wyatt family.





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