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John Morrison is good, but he needs a finisher. Once he finds something, I expect him to be done with Miz and start working up the card - although their tag run has been amazing for both of them and will lead them both to solid singles careers. Could Miz work to the main event someday? I think he's got a shot.
Shelton Benjamin always gets a mention. He's finally looking like he's getting a style down, and his matches with Kofi the past couple weeks have been solid TV matches. He doesn't need to be amazing on the mic to get over - they could give him a mouthpiece. Problem is, I have no idea who would the that guy to be his manager. Striker would just be awkward. The thing with Burke certainly had legs, but Burke has too much talent to be left as a manager.
Speaking of Elijah, there's no reason he isn't in the mid-card right now. Elijah would add a fresh face to the IC ranks, and he could pull off some really good matches with Jericho, Carlito, Jeff Hardy, etc.
Maybe a Shelton/Elijah tag team run can get them moving in that direction? The only way this could work is to find a babyface team to hold the straps (Londrick?) and hold them for a few months, then have a mystery team challenge them on RAW on week and it's Shelton and Elijah, acquired on a trade. Londrick get ousted, being as Shelton and Burke can match their speed and are more powerful, leading the a nice feud between the two teams, and a long run for Burke and Benjamin. Just a thought - would get them on the main show, but not push them too hard too soon.
In all honesty, I have no idea how Val Venis isn't up there. They really dropped the ball with him. I saw this mentioned here a few months back, but when he did the RTC thing as "Chief Morely" they had a chance to get him out of the Val character. If he had evolved from that to simply being Sean Morely and stayed heel for a while longer, he would have been over huge and would have ended up in the main event with time. I would have never guessed in 1999 that Edge would end up bigger than Val. It's just amazing how bad Val got screwed over by Creative wanting him to go back to the Venis gimmick after the RTC days, because Val is one of the better workers of the last decade.
Christian Cage. I know he's in TNA, but this guy should be in the main event picture in WWE. They dropped the ball bad with him.
I, for one, don't see Jeff as a world title guy. I don't find him believable. When he beat HHH, I wrote it off as a fluke. And was proven right when Orton beat him clean (a win Orton needed). I just don't see Jeff being a main event guy - maybe occasionally in four-ways and such, but never in a one-on-one main event on a big PPV.
Festus can wrestle. He needs a complete makeover, but he looked good with Taker and he has shown time and time again that he can go after the bell rings.
Kane should have main evented a long time ago. To main event him now is a waste because no one cares. He's past his prime, and he's being pushed. Great. They should have given him a world title run when he was a complete psycho - coming out the ring in shackles with the towel over his head - THAT Kane was awesome. Now he's a big ball of blubber and can't carry a 5* match, although he'll do no worse than a 3.
Carlito. This guy is good when he actually tries. Then again, that's his problem. But he SHOULD be in a top spot by now, not feuding with Bobcore and CAWdy in the tag ranks. He needs to bring back the apple spitting after matches and get a more cut-throat edge to his already opportunistic heel gimmick, and he could be really good.
That's all I've got for now. I'll post more later if I think of any.
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