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Originally Posted by XL
Just to pick up on that last point: this is the underlying problem with your mentality, and unfortunately it seems to be shared by the guys booking/running WWE; if a guy can't be "The Guy" then he's worthless.
Literally nobody is saying Sandow should be headlining. What they are saying is that Sandow has *some* value that's been wasted. Whether he's headliner material or not there was a period at the start of the year where the crowd were into the guy and WWE pissed it away.
Who's saying that Ziggler/Owens/Rusev/Cesaro can "lead the company to its next book period"? Sure there will be guys that want those individuals to we World Champ by next Monday but for the most part they just want these guys used BETTER.
If Cesaro can't be a 10/10, he might be able to be an &/10 but he's being presented as a 5/10. And they are seemingly reluctant to help him get to 8/10.
For me it'd better to have a bunch of 8/10s and a couple 10/10s (Cena, Lesnar) instead of a whole bunch of 5/10s and your two top guys.
It's great having these tip-top guys but can you hold the attention of your audience for 3 hours based on the 40 mins that they work? The whole show needs to be firing on all cyclinders. Or at least trying.
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But Sandow WAS used to his complete potential. He's a funny guy, who pretty much blows in the ring. So they put him with Miz, got months and months out of a storyline, did the blow off, and then that was it. They even managed to find Sandow yet another comedy angle to work, and it was one of those things that was funny one time, but not something you are going to get long term benefit from.
People dont seem to get that the spots on TV and Network Specials are VERY limited. Just being a steady feature on the Network Specials is a big deal. You have most months 7 matches per show. At least one will be a Divas match, one will likely be a tag. So you're left with about 12-15 spots. So where do you want them to go with guys? Whats wrong with where Cesaro is right now? He just worked with Kevin Owens, who is now in an IC title fight. Who's spot should he have?
The way WWE books right now is you have your top guys (basically Cena and Rollins right now), you have some part timers who come in now and then, but primarily for Mania (Lesnar, Taker, Trips, Rock, Sting, Jericho, etc), and then you have a glut of guys who get monthly programs and are on TV every week (Reigns, Ambrose, Wyatt, Ryback, Cesaro, Owens, Sheamus, Orton, etc). And then you have a few jobberish guys who are just on RAW to get beat up but are known characters.
I just dont get where people think some of these guys should be right this moment, unless you think they should with Rollins and Cena.