[Bad News Gertner]

Originally Posted by hb2k Holy shit, I had no idea JBL would be such a dividing line. The match quality aspect doesn't mean much to me, Rollins is a great guy in the ring, but the out of ring stuff sucks, and a big part of it is his fault. JBL's character was miles better, my problem is that the best stuff JBL did wasn't in his title run. The Eddie feud, post Mania Cena feud and the I Quit match, the One Night Stand appearance, the US Title stuff, etc. For his actual title reign, he had a horrible feud with Undertaker in which no good matches or great promos occured, a feud with Booker I don't remember one thing about, and the horrible Big Show feud, including a particularly horrendous Smackdown episode based around Joy Giovanni being kidnapped. The cheap heat I bring up because I love cheap heat in wrestling, but during these feuds in particular, it was all cheap heat, and nothing else to it. I agree it doesn't matter how you get them to hate you as long as you do, but it didn't lead to any great heated moments during his title run at all, so it's for nothing. He may have done a good job with it being so rushed, but that rushed aspect is impossible to ignore. This may have to be an agree to disagree - I like JBL, but not his title reign. At all.

We don't take kindly to JBL hate round these parts!