| Evil Vito |
05-04-2011 09:26 AM |
<font color=goldenrod>After having a night to think about it, it really just set in how brutally booked the main event scene has been in the last 2 years. I keep hearing about "creating new stars" and I just don't see it. I don't think this would be that of a deal if it was just Christian, but it's not. Most of the time somebody gets close to the main event, the WWE yanks it from them.
-Over the past two years we've had Mark Henry going over huge against Orton in his Raw return, looking like the next big thing, then absolutely nothing was done to capitalize and he became a jobber to the stars
-Kofi Kingston looked like he was going to be huge during his feud with Orton, with the MSG beatdown, and going over both Punk and Orton at Survivor Series, then he lost the blow-off and disappeared.
-Sheamus came in like a house of fire, winning the title twice and establishing himself as a top heel on Raw, only to go on a losing streak and pretty much become just another midcarder.
-Swagger won the title, beat Orton mostly cleanly, was feuding with the Big Show, then the vegetative state storyline took over and he ended up fighting Chris Masters on Superstars a bunch of times.
-Wade Barrett was the centerpiece of the biggest, most promising storyline WWE has done in years, and around November Barrett vs Cena looked like it could easily headline Wrestlemania. Then the Nexus were promptly made to look like huge jokes who never had a chance of playing with the big boys, the Corre looked even worse, and Barrett ended up wrestling a 90 second 8 man tag.
-They can still right the ship with Alberto Del Rio, but it's close to sailing. His opening feud with Rey was a logical starting point and the subsequent buildup to his "destiny" was brilliantly done. But where is he after Mania and Extreme Rules? Right back where he started, feuding with Rey again. The eventual Cena/Del Rio feud can be fun, and finally winning the belt would help to solidify him as a solid main eventer even if he loses it back within a few months. But it seems like Cena is bound to hold the belt until close to Mania to build to the Cena/Rock match potentially being for the title.
About the only bona fide main event success story that comes to mind in the last couple of years is The Miz. If nothing else, he'll always have a lengthy WWE Title reign and a WM main event (and win) under his belt. But even at that, I can't help but wonder what they will do with him once his feud with Cena ends.
I'm not saying these guys would have made it to the Orton/Cena elite level, but there is no reason why a few of them couldn't be viewed as legitimate main eventers who could be believably plugged into the WWE or WHW title pictures on a dime. Because the WWE has incredibly cold feet, none of them were given the chance to sink or swim. Now I haven't seen SmackDown yet obviously, and I don't know what the plans are for the next week/month are, but history suggests that Christian had his cup of coffee with the title and will be shunted back to the midcard.
I understand that Cena and Orton are the two most over guys in the company, and I'm fine with them nearly always being in the title picture. But those reports of WWE wanting to fill the voids left by Taker and Triple H just seems like a total crock. It seems that WWE feel that since Cena and Orton are 34 and 31, respectively - there are still plenty of miles in the tank and thus there is no need to try and create any legitimate main eventers. There may not be a proper influx of new main eventers until they are getting close to retiring.
And that ends a rare "Noid post" from me.</font>
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