Thread: Is it too late for AJ Styles to be the top face in the company?
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Old 04-15-2018, 06:32 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Dastardly Dale Newstead View Post
They want Roman to be "The Guy". And honestly, I firmly believe at some point the fans will kind of give up. It'll be kind of like Cena in that they'll go from "hating" him to "respecting" him and they won't even understand why. I get the Roman vitriol is worse than Cena's ever was. But you keep pushing him over and over, eventually the fans'll be like "fuck it".

Mind you, even if they booked AJ like they're booking Roman, he'd probably take negative backlash. They have no idea how to make things seem organic.
That is exactly what is going to happen. People get fatigued and they stop resisting, and Vince can get away with it because he has no perceived competition and is a stubborn motherfucker. He can have Brock beat Reigns ten more times before randomly putting the belt on him, and that is entirely his choice and you have one choice: watch or not.

People have chosen not to watch. Ratings went down under Cena -- a higher rate than television ratings themselves have declined. Attendance is down with no signs of it really increasing. They will charge more money for the fans who will go to their shows. They will do deals with developing countries in order to take the circus to them in order to stay afloat. They will sign hot women and put them in reality shows to cover their costs. They're living on this edge of a bubble that might one day pop, but they can ride for the foreseeable future.

At some point, Reigns will just be a guy who has been in 10 WrestleMania main events with as many World Titles and will be a "legend" by the narrative they get to set. He'll have sold a lot of merchandise, been in front of millions of people, had a lot of "good" matches, and -- to a certain section of an audience that is conditioned to seeing him perform -- will affect business when he's not around.
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