Thread: There is no way they can close Mania with Orton vs Batista...
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Old 03-01-2014, 01:23 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by CSL View Post
indeed. See: Orton/Cena @ the Rumble. Quality match with a finish that would have gotten an even better reaction if they'd have just gone with it from the beginning instead of being too busy acting like dickheads from the moment the bell rang because they thought they knew better/what was going to happen.
I normally agree with you, and I enjoy reading your idea of Daniel Bryan getting his title shot on RAW the next night. I think they could even drag it out until Extreme Rules or later (make the fans absolutely SALIVATE for it -- the moolah is in the chase), but I enjoyed hearing the fans shit all over Cena vs. Orton, despite the quality of the match being, as you implied, quite good.

People didn't want to see Cena vs. Orton again. If you're going to put forth something your fanbase doesn't want to see, you're going to get shit for it. The hard line seems to be in convincing the people who plunk down money for PPV that guys like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk are worth investing in. Well, that could have been achieved by actually sending the message that they aren't second-rate players all the time. This seemed to happen more with CM Punk during his run as WWE Champion than it is with Daniel Bryan today, to be fair (Bryan's overt criticisms from The Authority are part of a storyline). But if you want Johnny Casual to put down money for Daniel Bryan stuff (and considering that Daniel Bryan seems to have a new t-shirt every two months, I'd say that something is working), then I think sending the message that he can close the deal is definitely the right one to take. They did that at Elimination Chamber effectively, in my opinion, but main events between a combination of Orton/Cena/Batista at this point in time just aren't doing it for live crowds.
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