Thread: Should Lars Sullivan beat Kofi Kingston for the belt?
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Old 05-30-2019, 12:29 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Destor View Post
If wrestling still had a spine id say yes. This would be an organic angle. Lean into it. Imagine how good it would feel to have kofi go over him 6 months in. I remember hating heels because they were the worst humans on earth.
The problem is with the shitty writing of WWE, they wouldn't do that.

And by "that", I mean follow up with having Kofi go back over Lars. There would be no comeuppance. There would be no payoff. It would be like "people like you" HHH beating Booker T, or when Albert was busy cosplaying as the world's biggest weeb, and Yoshi Tatsu "took offence" to it. The former led to a match proving Hunter right (and he was the heel) and the latter was a squash match that led to nothing (and Tensai was the heel).

The "racist" heel beats the minority face, and that's the end of that, because we still have to use the now vastly outdated metric of Lars being big and looking like a superstar walking through an airport. They wouldn't get to the "and the racist got beaten" or "and the racist reformed". In the case of Kofi, it would just be a means to get the belt off of him since he wasn't supposed to be there to begin with instead of the company riding off of the organic highs that come along and being happy with it.


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Heard a mark say Moxly was heel in AEW despite the crowd Austin level popping their balls off. I guess thats whay heels are now. Massively over babies, loved by all.
Firstly, it's too early to tell, since it was a debut. Of course he was going to get a pop even if he raped a puppy and kicked a child to death, because HOLY SHIT DEAN AMBROSE IS MOX AGAIN AND HE LEFT WWE!!!111!!!1ONE At the moment, tweener, but pointing to being a heel that nobody will want to boo.

Face move of DDTing Jericho, but then he attacks the ref and beats the hell out of the clearly babyface Omega. Total heel move, but people anymore will cheer just about anything. Hell, even in the midst of Jericho working the crowd before Mox showed up, he wasn't getting as many boos as he should have. People were trying to start "thank you" chants instead of giving him the heat he was looking for by saying he's expecting said "thank you". Chris tells the crowd to "shut up", and you get assheads like "yayyyy, he told me to shut up, he's awesome!" instead of doing their part and going "fuck you, dickhead! booo!!!"
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