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Originally Posted by Vastardikai
When I go full ridiculous, it should be patently obvious, like when I said we should have random indy guys every week being Mike Kanellis, because of how forgettable he is.
But I have understood why folks do and don't work in a certain position. As far as Jinder, it works for a simple reason:
"He doesn't DESERVE the World Heavyweight Title."
To an extent, you're right. But that's kind of the point of his title reign, apart from the whole tapping into the India demographic.
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The Jinder thing also works because they're committed to the bit.
It's weird, because they're committed to it for that second reason, but it is working because of the first. Had this been anyone else for any other reason (other than a roster-thinning dearth of injuries and retirements), WWE would have likely just scrapped it after that first PPV and chalked it up to him not being able to get over on his own.
Had, say Henning* gotten the commitment to presenting him as a big deal as Heyman had initially touted him as, I am totally certain he would be a main event talent now. If he would have kept getting wins, even "fluke" ones, to build up his newly minted credibility, that plan could have worked. Had they assembled a "crew" around Heyman, and let one of the other nobodies assembled around him be the ass end of the jokes and beatdowns, Axel could have continued to slowly work his way up the card. Instead, he just became a jobbing meatshield, like when he was essentially the ONLY buffer between CM Punk and Brock and/or Heyman and was constantly getting his ass kicked on every show, the "mystique" had been eroded away in a matter of weeks.
Had the company just rolled with making Roman a heel and committed to that, they would be well into reaping the rewards they desperately wanted for forever of a face turn by now instead of trying to even still present him like Cena with the "a face who doesn't let boos bother him".
Even odder because in the whole thing between Braun and Roman, it is obvious Reigns is
supposed to be the face and Strowman is
supposed to be the heel. However, other circumstances, such as the obvious shoehorning of Reigns as a face, Brawn's rampages being somewhat "a breath of fresh air" (as they don't have him laying down for people every week) giving him a slow build of credibility. His mic work needs help, but who gives a shit? He toppling ambulances and slamming Big Show around like nothing and isn't giving diatribes every week or forced to say "sufferin' succotash" for the kids.
They are dead set on the hotshotting with Jinder. The fact that they didn't go in a different direction is why it works, and the
only way they can fuck this up is if they try to turn him face in the immediate future.