Official RAW Thread for 02/21/11 - Watch the rafters, THE STINGER DEBUTS!

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Originally Posted by Fignuts Let's just agree to disagree on the streak thing, because that issue has divided the whole internet, and all we'll be doing is arguing in circles. It's personal preference at this point. As for Barrett and Sheamus being in big matches with Taker and HHH, well it just wouldn't work right now. When it comes to making a star at mania, I don't belive you can do it by just throwing them in a match and hoping for the best. There has to be a proper build to it. Maybe, if Sheamus and Barrett had kept their momentum up until now, but they haven't. Sheamus has been stuck in the midcard, and Barret has been floundering in Corre the last couple months. It would feel underwhelming to me if they went up against Taker and HHH. Maybe if they would have kept up on their big pushes all this time. But they didn't. So at this point, I'd rather see HHH vs Taker than try and awkwardly fix what could have been.

So Sheamus injuring HHH to the point he misses almost a year, and Barrett "burying" Taker aren't proper builds to matches, but HHH showing up out of nowhere to confront Undertaker, say nothing except look at a WrestleMania sign is? Ummm Ok.

Look I'll agree with you that those two have been booked as weak. I just wrote a small book about that already. I'll concede with how weak they look, the drama isn't there.

But to me, they at least makse sense! The best case feud here that's discussed is HHH is coming back to defend his friends honor, and oh by the way I'll put my career on the line too! It's forced not to mention completely uninventive. Meanwhile we the fans are supposed to believe storyline wise that HHH doesn't want to get revenge on a guy who shelved him and Taker is just going to ignore the guy who led to him having to rise up yet again?

It's just awful awful booking.

I mean honestly, if they would have brought back HHH a month ago and start building this then? Then super! HHH could have come out, talking about the fact that since his time away he's been able to reflect on what happened at "Mania, and how life hasn't been the same since he lost his friend because of the Undertaker. And he will hunt that man down and pay for this. HHH leaves the arena and we are left to guess what's up

This could have led to those 2/21/11 videos. Is that Taker in the shack? Is it HHH devising a plan? Two weeks later we see Taker is in there, but those boots outside? Is that HHH lurking in the shadows? Someone else?


But now we get this dreck, and two of their promising stars are buried in the process.