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Do you see Samoa Joe or Cowboy James Storm on the main roster at any point? I understand they need seasoned performers to have NXT newbies get experience with. But, at the same time, don’t you want the strongest guys with the name recognition on your main roster?
Here’s the thing, WWE could have signed both guys when they were younger and chose not to. That is telling to me. Joe’s build is not one that Vince McMahon generally pushes and since they already have Kevin Owens on the main roster, I just don’t see Vince putting a second, non-buff guy up there. As for Storm, he too has been available before and not brought in. I think with WWE’s plan to increase the dates that NXT runs and make it more of a touring brand, they need talented veterans on the roster and that is what they have in mind for Joe and Storm. I am fine with that too because I honestly feel that they will be used better in NXT than they would be on the main roster.
Now that Sheamus has the championship, do you think that WWE will stand behind him and give him a good run with the belt? Or is Sheamus just holding the belt until they can build up some more support for Reigns or for a Daniel Bryan return?
From everything we hear, he is a placeholder champion. I understand it too. WWE is in their down time as they get through the holidays, but The Road To WrestleMania starts in January. There is no way I see the company going into it’s biggest time of the year with Sheamus in the champion spot. I expect him to lose the belt before The Royal Rumble unless something drastic happens.
What is Vince's fascination with the "cowardly heel champ?" We've seen guys like Rollins, Sheamus, and to a lesser extent Kevin Owens and Del Rio become so cowardly that it makes them look really weak. I get the heel has to use heel tactics, but when they get booked so cowardly, it lessens the impact when a guy like Roman finally beats one of them for the championship.
I have no idea but I hate it, and I feel a lot of the million or so people that have stopped watching Raw since June, according to Nielsen, feel the same way. There is nothing wrong with having a heel use methods to cheat, but when they make him a coward, it hurts the product a lot. The whole thing is that it’s about two guys fighting. Vince need to remember that.
Following up my previous question regarding the "cowardly heel champ," the MITB cash in stipulation has become a lose-lose situation because if a face cashes in and wins, his victory seems cheap, and if a heel cashes in, he becomes yet another cowardly heel champ and eventually is made to look weak. Do you think it would be "better for business" if from now on, the MITB winner announces beforehand when he's going to cash in, like what RVD did against Cena?
As Elite members of this site know, I loathe Money In The Bank. It has outlived its usefulness, especially at a time when WWE is not building up talents as credible and “next in line†to be the champion. It leads to guys who are not over to the point of being the champ getting the briefcase and cashing in to yawns from the crowd. Personally, I would get rid of it but if they want to keep it, I think they have to take away the “anytime cash in†part of it for the reasons you stated.
Am I the only one who finds it really exaggerated for WWE to have fired Brad Maddox for the use of the words “cocky pricksâ€, especially considering it was before a dark match on a Smackdown taping? While I do not care much for Maddox (did not even know he still worked there), to me, it makes WWE come off as really uptight and quick on the trigger. A reprimand, sure. Firing someone? My intelligence is more insulted by WWE Creative’s booking than I am about that sort of language.
It depends on how you look at it. Given that Maddox was a guy that was barely being used, the company didn’t have a problem with bidding him adieu under the parameters that they market a kid friendly product. But yes, they do other things that would go against that line of thinking. To me, it was more about who said it. If it were someone higher up on the card, I don’t think that they would have been let go.
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