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Old 04-18-2014, 11:41 PM   #1
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Same could be said about Henning* actually. Remember when he was christened to be the next big deal by Paul Heyman? In a matter of mere WEEKS he was relegated to looking like a clueless baffoon instead of any kind of credible threat. He had no feuds to speak of, and was back down the card soon for little to no reason. "Better Than Perfect" makes little sense when you're jobbing most of the time. That much is on shitty booking. My point on Ryback is that though he was over, he wasn't "carry the company" over. They wanted him to do in months what it took DB years to accomplish simply because of how he looks. When that fizzled, it was somehow supposed to be because Ryback "didn't have it" instead of WWE realizing they tried to harvest that plant too early merely because it looked impressive in a misguided dash for the next cash cow, and caused it to wither.

They want badly to make the same mistakes with Rusev. No matter how many guys want Lana to ride thier baloney pony, it doesn't make Rusev less boring. Comimg out and simply refusing to speak in English doesn't draw the heat it used to back in the day... ask Tensai. For the successes of Brock Lesnar, how many Jackson Amdrews and Eli Cottonwoods and Bobby Lashleys have been in and out of Titan Towers? I believe Rusev is being set up to fail, then they'll discard him and move on to the next boring monster over and over until they eventually luck out and stumble on another hit, then go "see, we know what we're doing!"
Ryback was MASSIVELY over for a 9 month stretch. You can't compare what Axel had going on, due to Heyman anyways, to Ryback's push and demise.
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Old 04-19-2014, 07:26 AM   #2
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Ryback was MASSIVELY over for a 9 month stretch. You can't compare what Axel had going on, due to Heyman anyways, to Ryback's push and demise.
I disagree. I think his catchphrase was over. But his character itself just got pops based off of who he was getting ready to go beat up.
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Old 04-19-2014, 10:23 AM   #3
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I disagree. I think his catchphrase was over. But his character itself just got pops based off of who he was getting ready to go beat up.
You’re wrong. The fans LOVED RyBack, and rightly so...it wasn’t just that they loved chanting “FEED ME MORE!” along with him.
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Old 04-19-2014, 11:29 PM   #4
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Ryback was MASSIVELY over for a 9 month stretch. You can't compare what Axel had going on, due to Heyman anyways, to Ryback's push and demise.
I think you missed my point entirely. I wasn't comparing how over Henning* was in relation to Ryback (and again, while Ryback may have been "massively" over, he wasn't "BE THE MAN IN WWE" over, which I already said). I was stating that both guys were set up to fail from both shitty booking and the WWE big man standard, and when it failed, they both were pointed to for "not being able to connect with fans/not having *it*", and that in comparison with the topic at hand (which is Rusev) being headed in the same direction.

He's going to need feuds and some sort of character depth. I've been out of touch with NXT for quite awhile, and I'm already more excited for Adam Rose sight unseen than I am behind Rusev from what I've seen in the ring. Everyone loves throwing around "vanilla midget" because it's fun to suck off Kevin Nash, but we need to understand that big guys can be pretty damn vanilla too, and a lot of them that have graced Vince's rings have been.

And Alexander Rusev is positioned to be one of those as well. And once again, when his gimmick fails, it will somehow be *his* fault because the fans don't care about his look as much as the company thinks the fans do.
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