Thread: Will Andrade "Cien" Almas ever be a top tier champion in WWE?
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Old 09-02-2018, 10:34 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 View Post
Except this is WWE we are talking about.
This explains all anyone needs to know to get the real answer.

"Height requirements" aside, the current angle with him and Vega and Rusev and Aiden English is all just one big ploy to get Lana over as far as this company is concerned... the least talented person in the entire angle is the one WWE sees the most value in.

In the 80's, this tandem would be big money heels on gimmick alone. In the 90's, they would have been far superior to the Papi Chulo/Lita pairing. In the 2000's, even though it would screw up the actual count, I can see him being included in the infamous "Smackdown Six", as the duo would fit perfectly in what was going on there.

But now, I fear he will just be another misused talent that WWE can't be assed to book out of a paper bag, but don't want him making a name for himself and money for NJPW, ROH, or Lucha Underground.

Side note: somebody said he "can't speak English". He can, and spoke it perfectly fine before Zelina came along, but part of the gimmick is that he just mostly refuses to just to be a douchebag heel... this is just another one of those things WWE kinda forgot how to put over. They never explained it on the main roster, and if you weren't familiar with his progress in NXT, you would never know. Because WWE didn't explain it. In any way.

So I would really be surprised if they allowed him to be a top tier champion. It is one of those things that his ceiling is as high as the company allows it to be, and I don't see it being much higher than it currently is, which is fucking shameful.
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