Mad Dog

It just amazes me they won't change. They let Lesnar and Joe get a little off the formula and the crowds were super into it. You would think that would encourage them to change things up a little bit.

The problem is they need to do something different. I often talk on another group how if I had the book for Smackdown that I would put the World Title on Big E. I would turn him heel and I wouldn't have New Day turn on him. I would put the World Title on Big E and he would still be a member of New Day. It shows how deeply in a rut the booking has been that such a simple idea seems so radical within the current WWE landscape. With Braun, why can't you just do what you've been doing with him except he has the Universal Title on his shoulder while doing it? Why does the setup have to change? Why couldn't Joe have choked out Lesnar at Summerslam and lost it back to him at Survivor Series with a few title defenses between? There's a lot of places they could go with their top programs if they were willing to break up their formula even a little bit.

I've said numerous times in this thread alone. My biggest issue with this match is they killed far more interesting storylines over the course of the year because they were only interested in this match. Lesnar/Joe was great and they glossed over it because it wasn't Lesnar/Reigns. Same with Braun/Lesnar. I would much rather have seen either of those feuds, which were far hotter as well, get more fleshed out and get better matches out of it. But instead those guys had to get cut off at the knees and job to 1 F5 so Reigns could kick out of 800 of them. Reigns is whatever to me. I'm generally apathetic to him but the fact that he in storyline never earns anything really annoys the shit out of me. He can fail as much as he wants to and there will always be some BS avenue for him to get back to that title match. And if that BS avenue doesn't exist he'll just declare he's getting a shot at the title and it will be so.

Peter Maivia was a face for a long time but the footage of him that I have seen was after a heel turn.

he is paper gay advocate then It's really easy to be brave about an issue when you aren't the one that's going to face potential consequences for it.

It's kind of different. The government sometimes has to do shitty things because they have to. The WWE didn't have to.

Yeah. I want to see this. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say they sell this out in a few hours.

WWE will give him a feud with Bryan and won't turn him heel and he'll steamroll Bryan at WM and then they will wonder why he's not getting over as a face even though he steamrolled two of the most over babyfaces in the companies history on the biggest stage -- Taker and Bryan. Remember, they actually managed to finally damage Bryan's overness at the end there with the match against Roman.

I really just want the belt off of Lesnar at this point. I'm tired of the part time champion shit and the terrible matches he usually has more often than not.

I finally stumbled into the Mid-Atlantic footage and I'm loving it.

Is Hornswoggle the first man to ever participate in the Rumble and the Clusterfuck?

My wife is watching Southpark Regional Wrestling for the first time. It's so great.

I think his neck problems started while he was still an active wrestler.

My favorite part of this is Gorilla thought it was hilarious and spent weeks replaying it on Primetime.

You also have the benefit of people not sitting there waiting for you to say something they can get upset about as well.

Different formats though. I don't think he really worded it that badly. I understood what he was saying the first time he said it.

The Clusterfuck from Spring Break was far superior to this.

Not even just jobbers. They had trainees and NXT jobbers in there.

I was at lunch, worked the second half of my day, drove home, settled in and still say over an hour of this.

Okay, shows over. Who's getting arrested for some weird crime now?

That belt looks like a hooker threw up on it.

So where do they go with Reigns from here? And the World Title for that matter.

Cass really isn't very good. Well that sucked. Let's never do that many entrants ever again.

Maybe his nationality would cause some issues?

This match needs more Titus falling.