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That's why Rusev is my sleeper pick for WWE's next break-out dude. If they manage to have one. I don't think if it's by design or choice, but he never gives too much away. The dude like never kicks out of anyone's finisher. He's a good athlete and all that, but he wrestles like an Attitude era star.
I think there's money in him somewhere. I think it's as a babyface too, as weird as that sounds. They'd obviously need to move away from the Bulgarian Brute evil foreign shtick, but there's something endearing about that big lug that I hope they can bring out.
It was here somewhere before I brought up all the matches being the same. If we saw Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker every week, we'd get sick of seeing Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker. Everybody busts out of everything and there is no real drama in the context of the match. It dawned on me how many times I was seeing it in a row at Clash of Champions and I started laughing to myself. There's no way a casual fan could take this seriously.
And that is why smart marks are a problem. Because we clap like trained seals for that shit that no one really wants to see. The guys in the ring are now the smart fans from the Attitude era, and they're marks for the shit they can do. I'd take a shorter match with a more organic structure than the same "they fight, bad guy falls out, good guy dives, bad guy catches him on something, beats him down, good guy fights back, bad guys hits finishing move, good guy kicks out, every move they know is used and they all kick out until a this is awesome chant starts and then the next move ends it" match we see ALL the fucking time.
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