i'm going old school for a wwe rant, i havent made in years
the problem with wwe is that they really are out of touch with how the crowds react to their own talent. they (wwe) badly want reigns to get over because he has "the look"
well in 2014, no one cares about "the look" anymore-- hell, no one's cared about "the look" since 1997, when austin was working his way to the top, and rocky mavia was getting "die rocky die" treatment but wwe was smart enough to shelter him under ron simmons and the nation. thats exactly the kind of heat reigns has on him right now. thats not his fault, he's just put in a ****y situation where vince badly wants a "big-looking guy" to basically be the next john cena. it doesn't matter how strong they try to make reigns look at this point-- the fans really do not care. it's not about the fans making a spectactle of themselves, this is how i feel as well. i was pissed that they made bryan, ziggler, ambrose, even wyatt look like jokes when they got eliminated
to be truthfully honest, i can not wait until vince mcmahon dies and triple h has full control. that's what it will take. if you even pay just a little attention to NXT, that's all triple h. NXT is the game's baby and thats the future of this company, but as long as vince is around, these "small guys" have no chance. as good as neville and el generico are, they will never be world champs as long as vince is around. we saw that with how bryan and ziggler were treated in the rumble
ziggler's been getting that super kick over big time in recent months and has slowly been getting big crowd reactions with how, like shawn michaels, pops that thing out of nowhere. zigs was superkicking everyone in the rumble, but with all of these big guys, he's had to superkick one guy 2-3 times to get them down. it's little things like that, that really deflates a crowd, because the times have changed. we've seen hbk, who had maybe 15-20 pounds on ziggler, but completely KO kane or the big show, but it takes ziggler 3 superkicks just to take down a guy like rusev. we get it, rusev is your monster, but seriously, fans are smarks for a reason. we aren't stupid. we can suspend our disbelief to a point where ziggler super kicking a guy 5 times just to knock him down sucks all of the life out of that move
the fans booing the hell out of that match after bryan was thrown out, chanting cm punk-- there were even austin chants, was justified. NO ONE wanted to see kane and big show in the final 4, in the year 2015. wwe went the route EVENONE saw coming, and that was reigns winning, but no one cares about roman reigns. he was better off as the mysterious guy who came out of the crowd and killed people. WHY would you fix something that wasn't broken. for the fans to unglue for bully ray and ddp, but boo reigns out of the building shows the work wwe puts in to their booking decisions. i'm not gonna lie, i marked out for bully ray and DDP cutting everyone, before being elimanted by, i wanna say it was bray, to get some extra heat on him
thats another thing that pissed me off. he was built in the rumble as killing everyone, but after a double chokeslam, he was gently placed out of the ring for the elimination, and you have JBL going "well, there goes bray wyatt", in that tone of "what the hell is going on in this match, when jbl dropped some pretty cool stats, while putting wyatt over strong
wwe logic: you hold the title, but when you lose my pinfall, or some BS stipulation, you automatically have a "rematch clause" but if you lose the titile because you have to drop it because of a career-threatening injury, you start from the bottom